Mystery Damascus Barrels

[Tom Flanigan]

Below is a picture that Drew included in an earlier post. The gun was mine and one I restored. One thing that always puzzled me was there was a section of the right barrel that finished much lighter than the rest of the barrels. I have no idea why this happened. Does anyone have any suggestions? I’m at a loss to explain it.

Note to my many friends on this board……..I don’t post that much anymore but I plan to become more engaged. I am now retired and living in my home town of Pawling, NY, in the house that my grandfather had built in 1905. I hunted every day (the property I hunt is 15 minutes from the house) from 10/1 to 12/23 except for six days. Mornings I spent bird or duck hunting and evenings bow hunting for deer. I take mostly pictures of the deer since I am very selective on what I’ll shoot. I did manage four deer, the biggest being a very large eight pointer that I saw numerous times before I took him.

Retirement has been wonderful and seeing so many of my old friends still posting makes me very happy.

Here are the mysterious barrels……..

[Dean Romig]

Tom, the only thing that makes any sense is that another ribband was spliced in and the splice joint is hidden under the ribs between the barrels. That's all I got....





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[StubTwist]

Thanks to Drew Hause your answer is found here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...iINdQP1Ss/edit

[Andy]

I know nothing about the barrels. But I am envious of almost three straight months of hunting.

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

I know nothing about the barrels. But I am envious of almost three straight months of hunting.

I hunted this year more than I have ever done before. My wife died this year. I had to spend a lot of time tending to her in the last year of her illness. I totally immersed myself in hunting, even more than normal, after her death. It was cathartic.

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Tom Flanigan

I hunted this year more than I have ever done before. My wife died this year. I had to spend a lot of time tending to her in the last year of her illness. I totally immersed myself in hunting, even more than normal, after her death. It was cathartic.

It's hard to come up with the right words here. I love to hear that hunting brought some comfort.
Thoughts and prayers.

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by todd allen

It's hard to come up with the right words here. I love to hear that hunting brought some comfort.
Thoughts and prayers.

Thank you Todd. Another strength in times of mourning has been my dogs. I couldn't live without dogs. You tend to lose yourself in the moment while walking behind a well trained bird dog or watching your retriever make a long retrieve. I have three dogs, two who sleep with me and a big golden retriever who is too large for the bed. I spoil my dogs shamelessly.

I did a lot of pheasant hunting on the acres of sorghum I plant every year. The sorghum provides food through the winter and ensures many survivors for the spring mating season. My mornings spent with my little setter Jesse were wonderful.

Here is a picture of me with Jesse. I generally hunt alone, but this morning I took a close friend out with us.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Tom Flanigan

I hunted this year more than I have ever done before. My wife died this year. I had to spend a lot of time tending to her in the last year of her illness. I totally immersed myself in hunting, even more than normal, after her death. It was cathartic.

I'm very sorry Tom, I didn't know. God bless.

[Breck Gorman]

Just guessing, but maybe the iron and steel billets were mistakenly mixed up, and too many iron billets were used to make that ribbon.

[Bruce Day]

P and G grades often had mismatched composite barrel segments. Each segment can be of differently spiraled Damascus or Twist and each can be of segments with different compositions of iron and steel. Sometimes a single barrel can have several different segments, other instances each barrel is uniform but differs from its pair. I have seen a P grade having one barrel of twist , it’s adjoining barrel of fluid steel. In that specimen , both barrels were blued.

One significantly mismatched G grade I saw was blued and in my opinion it was Parker factory blued. It was refinished by Damascus browning and the owner was unhappy with the previously concealed mismatch.

G grades can vary widely in quality. Some will have beautiful wood, barrels and engraving. A minority of others , not so much. D’s , the next higher grade were much more consistent.

I posted many photos of these examples several years ago.