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Hoss79

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  1. Hello all, new member. Here's what I know. My experience with damascus barrels are on the muzzleloader style, blackpowder. In their era, they had "patented" breeches-the breechplugs had a chamber that was smaller than the diameter of the barrel-for a couple of reasons. The first, it made the rear ends of the guns narrower, a good thing with doubles-Locks, especially flint, had a depth requirement for the internal springs. Second, the compression required to properly propel shot (and some solid projectiles), was easier to achieve if you only had to gas up a .40" tube section than a 12 gauge one wall to wall. Breeches were set to minimum powder charges expected, and made of fluid steel. So most of your pressures happened within a very heavy wall area. The issues came with corrosion-blackpowder is some caustic stuff, and even with cleaning, any voids made guns...questionable in their safety. All of this being said, I have an 1820's Manton double on my drawing board-and am in need of 2 (possibly 3) sets of long, unchoked 20x20 or 18x18 gauge barrel pairs, unchoked, from donor guns, damascus with damascus ribs. One will stay shotgun barrels, one will have a shotgun barrel on one side, and a .50 rifle (linered of course). Prospective 3rd pair of barrels will be .50x.50 rifled, but not pushing my luck. Dyson of England has original unused tubes, if any of you are interested...but for a price. Mark
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