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:

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

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My twist damascus Husky 16:

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