Long barreled 20's

[Researcher]

I wonder what "dense powder" old Almo was using? The heaviest 20-gauge loads I've found our North American ammunition factories offering in 1908 and for a lot of years later was 2 1/2 drams of bulk smokeless powder or 20-grains of dense smokeless powder such as Infallible or Ballistite pushing 7/8 ounce of shot. Such loads only available in 2 3/4 inch or longer shells. The lighter loads offered in the 2 1/2 inch 20-gauge shell were 16 grains of Infallible or Ballistite pushing 3/4 ounce of shot or 18 grains pushing 7/8 ounce of shot. I'm thinking 17 grains pushing 1 ounce would be pretty slow.

[Roundsworth]

The heaviest I could find in my collection is a Peters 'Target' with 2-3/4 drams of Oval and 7/8 ounce of chilled no. 6. The fired hull would be at least 2-7/8", if not 3".

[Double Lab]

Your doing a GREAT job with that scanner Frank. Neat story, only on what kind of repeating shotgun do you think the barrel was cut from 32 to 28? What was the popular repeater of that time? Mrs. Almo and a 32" repeater. Sounds nice.