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Originally Posted by George Stanton
If G&H said it was safe to shoot I would order a flat of 7/8 oz. loads from RST and go shooting. They are smokeless loads but the pressures will be low. Probably lower than many usual black powder loads. A lot of us shoot guns that old with RST loads. The photo of the blown up gun shows a gun blown up with a hot, modern, sporting clays competition load.
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There is even a question or speculation that a least on one of the occasions mentioned where there was a cataclysmic failure there might have been an obstruction or even a double charge. Nothing is risk free though.
Probably the odds of being killed in a car crash driving to the range or going hunting are greater than a gun blowing up in your face if you take reasonable care.
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