How many muzzle loading shotguns have crescent butt plates? I don't think I ever laid eyes on one.Lighting up 5 drams of good quality black powder to move 2 ounces of bird shot at a big duck.Bob Roller
Bob is referring to an actual duck gun, not a pea shooter 20 bore ladies gun.( which also don't have curved butt plates, BTW.)The load Bob noted, would be an 8 bore load, I assume[/quoteThe 5 dram and 2 ounce load WAS my 10 gauge load .I know this has to go back over 60 years but I was shooting a J.N.Scott 10 bore double barreled gun and using that load and some people were watching me and several said they would not shoot that for any reason.I had reloaded it and a young woman stepped up and said,"It looks more like a big push back than anything else and I want to try it."She put it to her right shoulder,cocked one barrel and touched it off,The the other barrel.She said she liked that old gun and her father had a 12 gauge breech loader that really kicks and she hunted squirrels with it.I think her name was Melissa Woods and I hope she is still around.Bob Roller
