[muawiyah]

Grandpa owned an old Damascus barrel shotgun. He knew you couldn't use modern powder in it, but it was tempting him ~ so finally he got some supposedly old fashioned 'black powder' and loaded it up to shoot a wad of cotton.

That barrel unwrapped like a Calzone at an italian wedding.

Turned out it was even older than he'd thought ~ and that particular design was elementally flawed.

Lucky for him he didn't get hurt but it took weeks for his eybrows and eyelashes to grow back in nice and bushy.

[JoeDetweiler]

Yeah, I’ve always read that old Damascaus barrels aren’t safe. I pretty much shoot reproductions, though I do occasionally shoot an original Maynard Carbine with very cool Civil War stamps. It’s inaccurate as hell, but a lotta fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Carbine