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• I was wondering, is it safe/possible to shoot sabot slugs from a smoothbore 870 with an extended rifled choke. Shooting Sabot Slugs With a Rifled Choke??
• Percussion caps (invented in 1805 but heretofore little used) now replaced flints, but the basic weapon remained a smoothbore musket.
• I've hunted game from rabbit to elk with flintlock rifles and smoothbores with great success and satisfaction.
• Guns November issue featured a review of two very fine smoothbore flintlocks by Caywood Gunmakers.
• I was interested in a flintlock smoothbore typical of the French and Indian War period.
• In the firearms field, flintlock smoothbore muskets gave way to percussion-capped, rifled muskets.
• Over his saddle lay a "kaross," or robe of leopard-skins, and upon his shoulder he carried his "roer" -- a large smoothbore gun, about six feet in length, with an old-fashioned flint-lock, -- quite a load of itself. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
• Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance.
• When a flintlock guy jumped on board with me, I gave him grief because his newfangled peice was "rifled", not a smoothbore like mine. The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting
• Over the next fifteen years, he invented and developed bronze boat guns, heavy smoothbore shell guns, and rifled ordnance.