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10-30-2012, 04:33 PM | #13 | ||||||
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If liability was such a serious concern why didn't Parker Bros. of any other maker offer a trade in allowance of composite barrel guns? Seems to me they could have further driven the sale of new guns and created a market of factory refurbished/rebarreled with fluid steel guns at a lower price.
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10-31-2012, 06:57 AM | #14 | ||||||
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In the "Great Debate over the safety of composite Barrels, A very important consideration needs a much greater focus. Composite Barrels were manufactured in many different configuations and degrees of quality. The top American manufacturers used the highest quality barrels available. The smaller manufacturers and importers used much lower quality tubes. Perhaps the poor quality tubes were not able to withstand the higher pressures of nitro powders.
The expense of high quality composite barrels, drove the industry to create much less expensive fluid steel barrels. Fluid steel and composite co-existed for a period of time, in fact composite became a luxury upgrade. The unilateral condemnation of Damascus and composite barrels, I believe was primarily a marketing move to reduce costs in materials. Failures in poor quality barrels may have supported the manufacturers position. Shootability depends on quality and condition. Every set should be individually evaluated. Brad |
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10-31-2012, 07:17 AM | #15 | ||||||
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Excellent point Brad. My impression from what I have seen is there was a lot of junk coming in from abroad. As in many areas, the good gets painted with the same brush as the bad.
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10-31-2012, 11:18 AM | #16 | ||||||
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after looking and reading remingtons adds it looks like remington did not want to fix or repair a gun with damascus barrels..but then they would sell you a gun with damascus barrels that they said would shoot and stand upo to modern smokeless loads with no harm... i would say these fellows doing the marketing stratys were a little forked tongue... in my opinion ive shot a lot of these old damascus twist stub twist laminated steel about all of the old belgium clunker guns with all known types of odd barrel markings of steel...ive never had a issue with one...the only gun ive not fired yet is a pretty nice old parker lifter gun with plain steel marked on the barrels and it will get tried out here shortly.... charlie
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Remington Barrels
Some of Remington's barrels were very heavy as in this example, Gary
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11-16-2012, 04:33 PM | #18 | ||||||
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In some hearings before a Senate committee on tariffs about 1912, the head of Parker and LC Smith both testified that they were unable to make quality barrels at prices to make their guns competitive. They needed the source of Belgian (et.al) barrels to make good shotguns.
Some other documentation stated that even though they had tried to source their barrel steel from the US,they could not do it reliably enough for their quality control. It might not have been true but they told the US Senate it was. |
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11-17-2012, 01:35 AM | #19 | ||||||
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I'm just going to toss my 2 cents in here. 19th Century shooters considered damascus barrels as superior, often times, to fluid steel tubes. The transition from BP to smokeless happened gradually starting in the 1860s and was pretty much over by the teens or 20s. Still Damascus and twist barrels were prefered by many shooters of fine shotguns and they continued to shoot them and many folks still do.
Therefore, while I would not suggest shooting high powered shells in damascus barrels the RST and Polywad shells made for such guns are, if properly inspected, perfectly safe to shoot and they do the job they were intended to do. Within the past few years researchers like Sherman Bell have studied the strength of damascus and twist barrels and have found them strong enough for standard pressure shells and I shoot my damascus Parker with confidence, but only with 8 or 9,000 psi shells, but it would probably do just fine with even more powerful loads. I just don't choose to shoot them. |
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11-17-2012, 06:09 AM | #20 | ||||||
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I have said this before and I'll say it again... Any barrels that would have blown from normal shooting have probably already done so by now. (Operative word - "normal")
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