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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
Harry and anyone who has concerns about what has been printed on shell boxes for a hundrrd years or so…. And even to this day RST prints the same thing….
Originally it was because most of the biggest ammo manufacturers were owned by or in cahoots with firearms manufacturers and this ploy was developed in order to sell more new guns with the newer fluid steel barrels , but today and even in RST’s case it is all about liability insurance. The insurance companies demand that be printed on the box to reduce their exposure to lawsuits.
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This has been hashed out on multiple site, and publications for years, and in the absence of any of proof of that, I think it comes down to urban legend.
It's always been generally accepted that the real reason was that the advent of smokeless powder drove the ultimate introduction of steel barrels. Hand loading in the days of only damascus steel barrels was very common, and those blown up barrels that generated the bad press was due largely to the lack of enough instructions and cautions relating to
The weights and volume of powders. Charging a gun with smokeless powder of the weight, or volume of the black powder charge previously used was the real error, and not the material the barrels were made of. Sherman Bell knew this, and simply saying so wasn't enough for him, so he proved it, beyond any reasonable doubt.
I think the warning on RST may be more Morris, than the insurance company. You don't see other shotshell boxes with the old 'You'll blow your gun up' warning.