Below is a photo from my last squirrel hunt, using a Loyalist Arms 20 gauge trade gun, that I painted with oil paint, and a color based on available colors in the 18th century. I missed one so a total of five shots, using 70 grains of 2Fg, and one ounce load of #5 shot, and book-paper for the powder cartridge, which was crush when empty and loaded into the barrel and rammed on top of the powder to form a wad. The shot was loaded using paper cartridges of newsprint, and was left intact when seating onto the wad in the barrel. I plan to take "Red" out this week for the last of the squirrel season...if work permits the time off....
Several of our Forum members in the UK and Europe have done this with Loyalist Arms guns without problems. Here in America, you can have a barrel tested, or you can test the barrel yourself while choosing how in depth a test to conduct. Mine came with a piece of fuse, a round ball, and instructions for performing a "proof" [test] of the barrel. So far, so good....
