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Originally Posted by KC911
Except stay the hell away from anything not half as old as you are...the new stuff  .
Picked up one a couple of decades old....19" bbl....$375 a couple of years ago. Fiocchi 00 defensive load buckshot...tame recoil....threat stipping effectiveness....like 4 45 acps at once....within a football at say 25'....
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Half as old as I am would be a flintlock. I have my dad's Belgian one from the 1800s. When they were first married (1946), they charged it up with black powder, made a "bullet" out of a piece of broomstick, put it in a vise on a workbench, got behind a bunch of boxes, and fired it by pulling a string attached to the trigger. Dad said it made a lot of smoke. Hard to imagine the quiet, reserved folks who raised me doing that! It still has the vise marks on the handle, and I smile whenever I see them. Dad's been gone for almost 25 years, but it's nice to have that memory.