Lloyd, I came to this game relatively late. 2005 to be exact. And immediately delved into the Double Gun Journal in a big way. So as quickly as I was enamoured by vintage guns, so I was by Damascus, with the clear understanding that, after the usual checks, shooting Damascus was just fine. It’s been more of an issue of what has come along and seduced me. In fact one of my earliest purchases was a 1880s Henri Pieper sidelock. It’s a total wreck of a gun that I will likely never get around to restoring but it has these big, beautiful Damascus barrels that I fell in love with the moment I saw them. I’d give the gun away but I can’t part with the barrels. Hahaha.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia