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Another problem with nitro in Damascus is that smokeless is more progressive burning than black, and a load with what appears to be a safe chamber pressure will have a pressure curve that sustains it farther down the barrel where BP shotguns get thinner faster than nitro. My neighbor, the local repair gunsmith, had a Damascus double on the wall, not visibly in bad shape... except for the 2" plug blown out of the left barrel just over the edge of the foreend. Right where your left hand goes.
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