Looks like all the top makers were switching to nitro by the early to mid 1890s. This was 120 years ago. Yet we see GI and GA ads today for top maker damascus guns and saying "for blackpowder use only" and people come here asking if they can shoot them with nitro. Most of these were designed for nitro and likely have never shot anything but.
Austin Hogan told me how a person can tell if a gun has been used with black. Of course I didn't know. He said to look for pits. It takes only one day of hunting in wet weather for pits to start after shooting black.
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