Nitro powder shotgun shells?

Started by Silver Creek Slim, October 13, 2005, 12:34:50 PM

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Silver Creek Slim

October 13, 2005, 12:34:50 PM
Anyone know when ammo companies started loading shotgun shells with Nitro powder?

Slim
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Four-Eyed Buck

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October 13, 2005, 05:10:50 PM
Slim, I do believe the mid to late 1890's.....Buck 8) ::)
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RattlesnakeJack

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October 13, 2005, 10:41:29 PM
To add to Four-Eyed Buck's answer, my reprint 1896 Winchester firearms and ammunition catalog shows quite a few Nitro shotshells, and they don't seem to be presented as a novelty or something particularly new ....
Rattlesnake Jack Robson, Scout, Rocky Mountain Rangers, North West Canada, 1885
Major John M. Robson, Royal Scots of Canada, 1883-1901
Sgt. John Robson, Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, 1885
Bvt. Col, Commanding International Dept. and Div.  of Canada, Grand Army of the Frontier

Delmonico

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October 13, 2005, 11:29:17 PM
Late 1870's or at least in Europe, the first Nitro powders were way to fast for rifles and even handguns but the wide bores and relative light shot loads of the shotguns of the time worked well with them.  It took till the middle 1880's before  the burn rate slowed down enough to use in the new small bore rifles of the time.  (8mm Lebel, 8x57, 7X57 7.65x53 and others)
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Delmonico

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October 14, 2005, 10:59:41 AM
1864 in Germany, used the powder invented by Captain E. Schultz of the Prussian army. 
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Steel Horse Bailey

#5
October 14, 2005, 11:21:40 AM
I thought Schultz was a sergeant in the German Army!?! ::) :o ;)
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Four-Eyed Buck

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October 14, 2005, 05:19:37 PM
Schultz is probably the German version of Smith........Buck 8) ::) ;) ;D
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