Doubleshot, I was beginning to doubt my initial advice to you until reading your last comments. The other guys who wrote and said that it is unlikely that you will blow yourself up firing occasional rounds of factory loads are probably correct. They are equally correct that this gun is not especially valuable. But the many specimes we see that are damaged or loose are likely the result of using higher pressure nitro loads.
These guns were originally made for the lower pressure stuff of the time, and really didn't fare all that well with that compared to some of their better designed and built competitors. Even more telling than the loose H&A guns we see are the ones that have already been scrapped or parted out.
So if your intent is to maintain the soundness of one of the few remaining tight and on face H&A doubles, it would be advisable to stick with lower pressure stuff. The factory loads which will kick more and eventually damage the wood and lock-up of even the best older American doubles will do the same to guns such as yours... only much faster.
It might be fun to enter the family minivan in the Daytona 500. But it ain't going to last for too many laps.
