A problem is stigma reporting a damascus barrel burst. Well known Parkerite had a burst barrel when a modern shell was fired in error, let us just say it was in the eastern U.S. about 2 yrs ago. Yep it did happen but nary a word about it on the wsites. Those reading here might say it was a barrel obstruction but considre the odds of that happeneing when the shell that caused the burst was a modern factory shell taken from hunting vest in error. Nope it wasn't a proof load just one loaded to current Saami specifications about 12k psi. Yep that barrel might have had internal corrosion or a mfg. flaw but how do you know yours doesn't?