Somehow it never occurred that a percussion cap would smoke like a flintlock. SeñorCasualidad..from Kansas bought that Reilly 11 bore and it has been a great buy:
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=645413
https://www.shotgunworld.com/threads/e-m-reilly-11-bore-percussion.571282/

I forwarded to him this line where Stan lays out how he organizes his percussion shoots and my wild ideas on how to increase speed of play:
https://doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=559872&page=1

He sent a picture of his first shooting of the gun,
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I posted in return a picture of shooting the 16 bore Reilly and there it is...a puff of smoke from the percussion cap. Simple stuff of course and logical if one had thought about it (which I didn't):

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Perhaps the fellow shooting this gun up at Shepard's Bush in 1880 was using a percussion shotgun and not a flintlock as we speculated:
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Last edited by Argo44; 09/25/24 10:46 PM.
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