I shoot moderate pressure loads ( 5500-7500 psi) in all of my
"Black Powder Guns" as well as all of my associates. The only burst bbls have been in three steel bbls guns that I have seen.
It is an "overblown" myth and worry.
Read Sherman Bells DGJ articles with proof loads in some of the old damascus guns if you are nervous.

Last edited by Stallones; 07/24/11 11:48 AM.