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Old 01-09-2013, 07:09 PM
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If it's a percussion-type rifle or musket, the use of shot in them was very common after the U. S. Civil War when cartridge rifles were adopted. A huge number of percussion rifled military muskets such as the Springfield Model 1861 and the Enfield Model 1853 (and many others) had their barrels bored out smooth for use as shotguns. I assume the same thing happened in Europe and elsewhere.
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