I do think it is worth pointing out that a great many damascus and twist guns have been put back into regular service without reports of blown barrels. It tells us something.
Today if you keep your ear to the wind you would know it is much more dangerous to be shooting a Kreighof. I used to shoot a lot of ATA trap, one of the most popular competition guns is the vaunted Kreighof K80. For the last 10 year at least they are reported to have experienced catastrophic barrel failure (shrapnel flying 200 feet etc). Seems no other brand and model gun in the ATA is doing this. It also only seems to happen on the trap field, never skeet or sporting clays. As one poster on Trapshooter pointed out with everyone carrying a cell phone why are there no pictures of these events, ever? Is this the same way we came to believe composite barrels were prone to failure?
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