Drew, I talked to Steve Culver today. He told me his current equipment would limit the maximum length of any Damascus barrel he could build to a maximum of about 12 inches.
I don't know if there is enough time to get a new Damascus auto and burglar built before the Spring Southern but, One of Ithaca's 1922 advertisements said " With it the average person can hit objects thrown in the air easier than with the regulation shotgun fired from the shoulder."