I've always like the looks of these mid-sized break tops. This one is quite nice, retaining almost all its original nickel plating. It has a very good, near excellent bore too. Its a 2nd model from the 1880s. Not wanting to wanting to shoot smokeless in it, I pulled the bullets from some Remington factory smokeless, 146gr rounds and reloaded them with 6.5gr of Blackhorn 209.
I also had some old WRA rounds. Since these were a different bullet, I pulled one apart too check it out. I was surprised to
see they were black powder rounds! It was packed in tight and took some scraping to get it out. It looks like 3F, and weighs 12.6gr. There was a little still in the case that was stuck on. I expect it was originally 13gr. I tried to fire just the primer. But as expected it was dead. So after cleaning the balloon head case, I put in a new CCI SP primer. Then drop tubed the original powder back in. After putting fresh lube on the bullet, it was seated and crimped. I hope to get to the range soon to try them out.