doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com is it safe to shoot smokeless in twist barrels ?

Don't do that, Dustin. It's in short supply these days because of the popularity of tinfoil hats.

At the moment, all the guns I own and shoot are damascus. I do have an 40's era AYA 4 boxlock heading my way, just to have something to shoot modern loads in at the trap range, but truly modern guns just leave me cold. I get so much joy out of shooting my 1880's Husky's and my 1898 Lefever, that the question of if they are safe to shoot somehow seems silly to me after all these years. If you buy smartly as SKB alluded to, and feed it the right ammo, it's not an issue. Imho, life is too short to spend time worrying about it.

My 30" Lefever 12 special order gun. Weighs 6.6lbs:



My 16b Husky 36 after I had the barrels re-browned and after I re-worked the stock:



My twist damascus Husky 16:

I have fired over 6,000 nitro (smokeless) cartridges through my Joseph Lang completed March 6, 1866 and rebarreled in Damascus by James Woodward circa 1872. Obviously I have no hesitation shooting it with the 2 1/2 inch cartridges it is proofed for.

2008-01-30 006 by Robert Holliday, on Flickr

Mark I really like your dog painting on the stock

I think it would look a lot better on a canvas, or even a coffee mug. But that's just me.

Reminds me of a girl I worked with some years ago who was nice looking and had very attractive legs. She showed up one day with a big honking parrot tattoo on her calf, and it did nothing to improve her looks. People talked, but nobody had the nerve to ask her why she defaced herself. But at least the dog picture on a gunstock can be sanded off and refinished. A parrot tattoo is not so easy to get rid of.

Is food safe to eat?