Food for thought
Just talking to another PGCA member, about damascus barrels. I have found and also heard of others who have a steel barreled Parker that the serialization book says is damascus, A lot of these were probably sent back to Remington because the mindset was that damascus was dangerous to shoot thus rendering the gun useless. The Remington factory if you inquired about Damascus would send you a letter saying how dangerous damascus was and should not be used. I have a letter like this that was sent to an individual that inquired about his damascus barrels.A lot of barrels were sent back to the factory to be changed out with steel barrels, Sometimes a date code will specify such, other times no date code and you have to guess. My question is what happened to all the damascus barrels that were replaced with steel? all the major gun factories eventually went to some sort of steel barrels some used interesting marketing to aid sales. I think most was just that, a marketing ploy to increase price on a certain steel, I guess most of these beautiful damascus barrels were destroyed can you imagine between Parker, Smith, Ithaca,and the other manufactures just how many that amounts too! Just thinking Gary
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