Just reviewed the excellent series of special subjects toward the end of the
LC Smith Collectors site forums.
Comprehensive listing of powders, black vs nitro; use of Damascus guns and nitro shell loading of smokeless or semi-smokeless by weight rather than volume;
AND the size of some 3 1/4 inch 12 ga shells used by competitors in live pigeon shoots
like Gilbert.
The LC Smith LCSCA forums hold an amazing amount of valuable information.
Dr. Drew Hause at the Double Gun and the LCSCA site also shows the results of excess pressure, barrel obstructions, and heavy loads in both
Damascus, Bernard, twist steel AND fluid steel "modern" shotgun barrels: caveat pressures.
Makes one almost check bores after every brace of ducks, grouse, dove or clays.
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