"Overload Proof"

[Tom Flanigan]

The prudent thing is to have vintage barrels checked out by a qualified gunsmith. When I was a kid, I bought a few Damascus Parkers because that was all I could afford at the time. I shot them all with my hand loads, at around 8,000 psi and never had a problem. I shot a few seasons with a GH 20 bore with corn cob bores without any problems, which isn't to say it should be done. I guess I was lucky and as a kid, I didn't think anything could hurt me.

[Austin J Hawthorne Jr.]

I put alot of faith in the testing that Tom Armburst recorded in the Double Gun Journal several years back. That being said...while I prefer to handload my target shells to around 7500 psi...my #2 frame 12's and #1 frame 16's get a steady diet of NON MAGNUM factory shells during hunting seasons.