It is possible that some barrels did fail.Pitted barrels or barrels that had been honed and polished out can be dangerous today.Back then no one outside of a few gunsmiths even knew what a wall thickness gauge was.Also,damascus probably got blamed when there was an obstruction of some kind in the barrel.Easier to blame the barrels instead of mud or snow or the wrong gauge shell in the gun.The main point is that gun and ammo manufacturers made a coordinated effort to stop the use of damascus barrels.
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