Damascus Barrels- yes or no?

[Bill Anderson]

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;143589]I think it started long before the 60's.... looong before.

These shell boxes are from much earlier than the sixties and I'm sure people can show even earlier boxes with the same warning.

They are all paper hulls.

"Researcher" Dave Noreen can probably tell us when that warning first appeared on various manufacturer's shell boxes.


In our retail word, everything you see, ad or label, just about anywhere, is all about "making money" plain & simple. All the major gun manufacturers were making the transition to cheaper and faster to produce, thus more profitable steel barrels. So one of the tactics by ammo companies in collaboration with gun manufacturers was to start labeling all ammo so you would discard your Damascus guns. They wanted you to run out and buy one of the new steel barreled guns and in turn you would also buy a good supply of the new fangled ammo to go with it. . That is the single biggest reason the warnings appeared. And it worked until just a few short years ago when Sherman Bell finally did his extensive testing.

Bill