I dont shoot damascus only because I dont own a gun with damascus barrels.
I do have a funny memory of me giving Eightbore a lecture on what an idiot he was for shooting such a suicide machine back at the old and now unfortunately gone National Capital Skeet & Trap Club.
I was new to shotguns at the time and was dumb enough to believe everything I had read. He does still talk to me though, so curmudgeon is not accurate, pretty patient with a fool actually.