Damascus barrels

[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

[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

[OH Osthaus]

[QUOTE=Drew Hause;111475]W.W. Greener produced new shotguns with damascus barrels in 2007-2008
From http://www.wwgreener.com/Shotguns.htm
"Barrels - are made of the highest quality steel and bored to maintain the famous choke boring improvements, made by W W Greener in the 1870s, to optimise shooting performance, and to ensure patterns of shot guaranteed to meet customers' exact requirements whether for game, wildfowl or clay pigeon shooting. A few pairs of guns are being made with interchangeable steel and Damascus barrels."


Courtesy of Vic Venters (Dec. 2008), who wrote an article in the Sept/Oct '07 issue of Shooting Sportsman regarding the Greener guns:
"They are indeed newly made damascus barrels, built on vintage tubes that David Dryhurst -- Greener's master gunmaker -- has been collecting since the '60s and '70s. Some are old Greener stock, some are English and no doubt some are Belgian. A few of these sets came from Dyson...They are not lined. The guns are being made in 28-ga up through 12, and maybe in 10-ga. At least 25 of these damascus-barreled guns are made or are under way, and I believe more have been ordered since I last asked. At the time of my writing, none had failed English proof. The guns are proofed under standard CIP pressures per the particular gauge.

Most are on sidelocks; some are on reintroduced "G-Guns" -- Facile Princeps actions with Boss ejectorwork. Greeners are a small best maker -- but demand has been so great that I am told they have again closed their order books. They were the last British maker to manufacture their own damascus tubes, and are the first to again offer them in commercial quantities."[/QUOTE -


if you can find a copy of the October 2013 "The Field" (a UK magazine - Barnes and Nobles stocks it here) there is a good article and photo spread of the new Greeners

[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.

[Steve McCarty]

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.