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Shotshell Headstamp Database
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<blockquote data-quote="aussiemd" data-source="post: 487755" data-attributes="member: 14772"><p>A pinfire shotgun shell has a pin sticking out the side of the head. The most common type is a center-fire which is the type you would have found where the primer is in the center of the head. I'm not 100% on the age of that shotgun shell you found but likely post ww2. Did it have ICI stamped on it?</p><p></p><p>The gun you describe is a muzzle loader and it did use black powder. Shotguns were not very popular until they became breech-loading and shotshells were available to use in them. The earliest shells used black powder (gunpowder) which shooters could load themselves. Around 1880 the change was made to smokeless/nitro powder which was derived from nitroglycerine and was normally sold already loaded in shotshells. Black powder was still used well into the 1900s, some shooters preferred to load their own and as greenhornet pointed out it was cheaper.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aussiemd, post: 487755, member: 14772"] A pinfire shotgun shell has a pin sticking out the side of the head. The most common type is a center-fire which is the type you would have found where the primer is in the center of the head. I'm not 100% on the age of that shotgun shell you found but likely post ww2. Did it have ICI stamped on it? The gun you describe is a muzzle loader and it did use black powder. Shotguns were not very popular until they became breech-loading and shotshells were available to use in them. The earliest shells used black powder (gunpowder) which shooters could load themselves. Around 1880 the change was made to smokeless/nitro powder which was derived from nitroglycerine and was normally sold already loaded in shotshells. Black powder was still used well into the 1900s, some shooters preferred to load their own and as greenhornet pointed out it was cheaper. [/QUOTE]
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