I didn't mention the Phoenix debacle because they've spent 40 years trying to bury it.
I'd prefer to mention how they can now put a 20 gauge shell down the tube and touch off a pigeon load behind it, without barrel failure.
There was no "debacle" and a single gun had a barrel failure. Nor has there been any attempt to "bury" the story as it is well known. There are as well a number of Fabbri guns still out there and in use with the same run of steel in the barrels. The current prices on them might be lower due to the rep but the market is hardly flooded with them. And I don't even know if the prices are lower. Twenty years ago or so I saw one of the guns for sale at the Vegas show. It was so vile and unliked that the price was only $38K.
The barrel failure was never explained as most barrel failures are not. K80's blow-up all the time and no one cares either.
