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Hey guys. I posted this shotgun before. It's a 10 gauge Cawles & Dunn, and a friend thinks has been restocked at some point with an australian timber. I don't know wood so take his word for it.

Anyways! I bought it 3 or so years ago, listed online as a 12g with 2 1/2" chamber. I thought it would be fun to have a single barrel under lever hammer shotgun, so bought it thinking i could get it lengthened to 2 3/4". It also was sold as not working (firing pin issue).

So it arrives, take it to the smith who makes a new firing pin and i asked him to ream to 2 3/4".

Go back to pick it up, he said he didnt ream it. I asked why not? He said "because it's a 10 gauge". Well, i never looked at the stamps on it lol. Apparently neither did the gun shop that sold it. 12g 2 1/2" was actually 10g 2 7/8".

So that was pretty neat, but a problem as 10g isn't easy to find here. I didn't do much with it, but eventually someone i was talking to said they were ordering some cases for theirs and did i want to go in on it? Sure! So i got 100 plastic cases. Made up some gear to reload. Then it took me forever to find black powder.. Eventually got it, and a 20mm punch.

I don't know what the load of BP is, but its the same volume as 1 1/2oz of No4 shot.

Goes: Primer - powder - card - cork (6mm each) - cork - cork - card - shot - card. Then glue that in. Fills it to the top of the case nicely.

Well anyways! Yesterday i finally took it out! First time ive ever loaded or shot black powder (in my own guns). Only had 7 rounds but fired them all. What a blast! Failing to find any Indian Mynas i resorted to shooting a paint can i had in the car.

There was nothing withing 1.5km of any direction i was shooting, so hence the different angles in the pictures (deliberately different for getting stills from the video for the pics!). Managed to hit it 5/7 so i was happy enough. Oh! And nicked it on the first go! Yay!

First shot:

The rest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S-GR5-fz-A

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