doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Would you shoot this damascus?

That thing up there is a flinch inducer that's for sure!

If there is any question in your mind, I wouldn't shoot or buy it. Wait for a better gun that you a comfortable with. They made more than one.

It's being sold out of Hampton, NY. I used to fish for bullheads at ole' slate quarry pit near there. Used to fish for Brownies and Rainbows in ole' Metowee River too. It sure brings back good memories long lost.

It is the bottom picture that bothers me. Looks like they pushed the dent out too far and tried grinding it down. It looks like it has a bruise around what looks like an eighth inch crack.

That crack is what would scare me too,if it wasn't there and the barrels where thick enough sure.With the crack I would not shoot it or stand anywhere near somebody that was going to.

If you have to question it at all, any of it, don't shoot it in my book. It has a busted wrist to boot. Why would you even think about it. There are others out there as others have said.

I am the opposite of King. Doesn't take much to scare me. I wouldn't shoot it on a bet. Jake

dt,
I see your point...especially about the wrist...it seems that whenever you find a pitted 1894 for sale, it has a cracked stock where somebody already harvested the good stock for a gun with no pits...I know a guy who bought one cheap... that he described as pitted so deeply inside and out, that the barrel windings looked as though they were beginning to separate in areas. Along with a cracked stock, he bought it for around 60 or 80 bucks, to be used as a destructive test specimen. He bungeed it to a tire and pulling both strings at the same time, he threw everything he could at it...including semi-passable barrel obstructions in the bore (loaded 16 ga shells down a 12 bore). It digested every increased pressure increment situation he could assemble until finally, as doubletrouble pointed out, the recoil drove the barreled action right through the buttstock, and the experiment was over.

That was 5 years ago...maybe he figured out how to rip the damascus barrels by now (without the stock).

I like to err on the side of safety as much as the next guy. I just can't find the correct evidense. Of the burst barrels I've examined only two were damascus and both were reamed silly. Based on those examples, I guess you could say that I don't know the first thing about ripped damastwist...

Blue pilling wall hangers 'til they yield...I wouldn't mind having a run at that experiment myself...I have a Tobin that's probably trembling as I type..

Could someone please identify the barrel marks on pic #11 on the link? The anchor?? Was 'J' the Remington code for the 1894?

Oh it doesn't take all that much to blow damascus barrels, even Remingtons. I did it. Reloaded some shells with IMR PB and thought it was Pyrodex. Blew at the chamber, fourth shot. Had em tested later after I got stiched up - 19,900psi. I still shoot damascus barrel SxSs with both smoke, and smokeless. Will admit, I'm REAL carefull what goes in them. Paul