Damascus barrels

[Snap Cap]

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."

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Fred Verry

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."

besides the legality issues of the old auto and burglar Ithacas, the few folk I know that have actually fired one said it was not pleasant.


I will try to find the exact quote, but as some Indian prince once commented when asked about the the recoil of his Howdah pistol, his reply was to the affect of

when a tiger is on one's elephant's head, one does not mind the recoil

[paul stafford jr]

my son and I own a lot of Damascus guns we shoot skeet and sporting clays twice a week and nothing looks better or turns more heads than the beautiful Damascus barrels , were always on the look out for our next gun. I know of no current maker of Damascus shotgun barrels, greener will still take special orders for Damascus guns using old stock, I wish some one would have saved parkers tubes from the scrap bin, its a dam shame, they sure look a lot nicer than them ugly blue things

[charlie cleveland]

they are pretty when redone...i wish i had each barrel steel in its origanal configuration..would nt that be a site... charlie

[Richard Flanders]

For anyone who has not done so, I'd highly recommend looking at Culvers website and his galleries. He does some very nice damascus work.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Richard Flanders

For anyone who has not done so, I'd highly recommend looking at Culvers website and his galleries. He does some very nice damascus work.

link?

[Drew Hause]

http://www.culverart.com/

Steve will be at the Las Vegas Antique Arms Show next month.

[Stepmac]

If someone made new damascus barrels and if one could afford to buy a gun so affixed, they would sell like hotcakes. I think there is a market for new shotguns that look like old ones. During most of my life (68) people shunned damascus/twist barrels as if they were a coiled rattlesnake. Today, if I see a good one, I'll buy it before a "liquid" steel barrel.

[Bruce Day]

xxxxx

[Dean Romig]

Beautiful examples Bruce.