Thread: Cracking the Code on another Double Rifle

Originally Posted by imaca

What precautions do you take when firing and old firearm like this for the first time?

To be brutally honest I feel safer firing a 100 year old BP rifle in good condition than I would a brand new budget Tupperware nitro rifle

This rifle is early 1900s and well into the nitro era
Husqvarna kept making them because there was still a market for them.
But they were still using the steel that was going into their nitro guns

It it's surprisingly hard or you have to be astonishingly stupid to blow up a BP gun with BP