My farmer buddy has a 1900 LC Smith shotgun. I gave it to him in exchange for hunting rights. It was just sitting in my cabinet and my buddy loves old guns. After I loaned it to him he fell in love with the gun so we worked it out.
Because it's a 1900 we have to be careful with smokeless powder. I read online that it may have been engineered with black powder in mind.
We were buying shells from RST which were low pressure and designed for use in older shotguns. They've been out of stock for a while and I think reloading would be useful anyway.
He's held on to a bunch of the cardboard hulls I am thinking that we would be safe to use triple seven or black horn 209 and reload the hulls with those powders. I'm also going to find a gunsmith to talk to about this, but I get the sense that this is a safe way to reload for an old shotgun. Does anyone have experience with doing something like this?
I'm not going to start reloading and shooting shells out of this old gun based solely on advice that I get off the internet, but I welcome input...
Tom
Because it's a 1900 we have to be careful with smokeless powder. I read online that it may have been engineered with black powder in mind.
We were buying shells from RST which were low pressure and designed for use in older shotguns. They've been out of stock for a while and I think reloading would be useful anyway.
He's held on to a bunch of the cardboard hulls I am thinking that we would be safe to use triple seven or black horn 209 and reload the hulls with those powders. I'm also going to find a gunsmith to talk to about this, but I get the sense that this is a safe way to reload for an old shotgun. Does anyone have experience with doing something like this?
I'm not going to start reloading and shooting shells out of this old gun based solely on advice that I get off the internet, but I welcome input...
Tom