Sporting Classics article

[Garth Gustafson]

[QUOTE=Mike Koneski;284525]I have read multiple times that the manufacturing of Damascus bbls ceased for the most part due to the costs involved in production. Between the raw materials and the labor involved fluid steel bbls were much more economical therefore the preferred bbl type.

Another contributing factor was World War 1. Liege, Belgium was arguably the hub of Damascus barrel manufacturing. The Germans overran Belgium and occupied Liege in August 1914. It would be four years before they left and five years before the Treaty of Versailles formally ended the war. Damascus barrel manufacturing production was never the same again.