You have to remember that most of the original purchasers of these guns have past and that an unknowm number of failures were consigned to the trash heap without much further investigation or documentation. So this knowledge is for the most part lost to history.
As to litigation,
"To properly diagnose a blow up requires a formal failure analysis and metallurgical study, by an experienced examiner, and costs about $1500 done right. But unless a personal injury lawyer gets involved, it won't happen, and if the case goes to litigation, we'll likely never know the results."
Who is there to sue?
The 'old timers' I grew up with and learned from in the 1950's were quite adament against the use of damascus barreled shotguns. -Dick
Last edited by Dick_dup1; 11/21/14 12:49 PM.
