Originally Posted by dirty harry
Shooting a Damascus barreled gun, use black powder only, using smokeless powder shells is like putting your hand in a cage with a ''Snake''',
you are going to get ''Bit'.

Dirty Harry

The ignorant speak loudly about that of which they are ignorant.

I have shot about close to 8,000 smokeless cartridges in one of my Damascus barrel guns and over 1,000 in the other. I'm just as comfortable shooting them with 2 1/2" cartridges as I am my modern guns with 2 3/4" cartridges.