I have a flat of these, so believing all the stories that 2 3/4" low pressure shells can safely be fired in a 2 1/2 modern British 12 bore, I took my Billy Evans to a sporting shoot last Sunday,, fired two of these shells, nice, no recoil, but I had really great difficulty opening the gun. No firing pin drag marks.
Today, I got out some Flatwater 2 1/4" handloads based on Federal Gold Medal paper hulls and the Evans opened fine after shooting them.
Anyone have an idea why my gun was almost impossible to open using Win AA featherlights? They will not cycle my 1100.
mike
