"We recommmend steel barrels as they are far more durable and about twice as strong as damascus!"

Perhaps Mr. Jeffrey missed the Birmingham Proof House Trial as published in The Field March 7, 1891 Vol 77:325
http://books.google.com/books?id=inQCAAA...d=0#PPA9-IA6,M1


http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfg2hmx7_242cxhh9hfq

Last edited by Drew Hause; 07/25/09 07:24 PM.