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i was shooting the ithica flues with krupp steel barrels with the appropriate rst shells. i was able to knock down clays. the barrels did get hot to the touch after about 15 shots during maybe 30min of shooting. so i stopped till the barrels cooled down.

is it ok to shoot with hot barrels? i was not sure.

Oooh yeah !
I just love hot barrels.
Fifteen shots in thirty minutes is only just getting warm.
O.M

you are not going to generate enough heat shooting clays to do them any damage

wear a glove if you need to

just being very carefull so i stopped and shot something else. i really enjoy shooting the old flues. its in excelent condition

Just shoot it. The heat will affect you before the gun - wear a glove on your barrel hand.

I've actually fired enough cartridges rapidly to get a barrel so hot that it blistered a finger on my left hand but it didn't hurt the gun.

Ed Good has gotten some of his guns hot enough that it left grotesque heat induced bullseyes. But I think it was due to his acetylene torch rather than firing the gun.

I do cowboy action shooting with my old doubles loaded with black powder or BlackMZ. Even the 10+ pound 10 gauges get uncomfortable after 4 shots and too hot after 6. Of course they all have splinter forends.

It's the same with shooting black powder in handguns and rifles. I figure that's another reason the cowboys wore leather gloves.

I'm wondering if some smokeless powder loads generate less heat than others?

I would only worry about the heat if I was shooting a flurry with black powder. I could see that leading to a popped barrel rib.

I once watched a fellow shoot a flurry for 2 minutes with a pair of guns at the Vintage Cup. With black powder. He was a good shot and it was very impressive but I bet those guns were hot!

I think pairs and triples for driven birds weren't all for rate of fire. It may have prevented guns getting too hot in the black powder days.

Happened to me! I was shooting a Flurry using 2 LC Smith hammer guns...Not black powder. Bottom rib separated on one of them. Steve Bertram makee fixee...

i expect that rib was going to give way soon anyway