[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Drew Hause

Parker- America's Finest Shotgun by Peter H. Johnson
"...but with the advent of progressive burning powder after World War I they were doomed as they were unsafe to use with these new and more powerful powders.

I suspect that Mr. Johnson may have been innocently perpetuating the 'Dangerous Damascus' myth that we all know today to be untrue. A great many of us shoot Damascus barreled guns with modern powders. The thing we have learned NOT to do is to reload our own shells with a weight-equivalent measure of modern progressive smokeless powder that was measured in black powder back in the days before smokeless.


I would suspect that had fluid pressed steel barrels been in use during the time that the modern progressive burning powders were developed and put on the market, there would likely have been a lot of blown fluid steel barrels... and what would the gunmakers have blamed it on then???





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