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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4366575" data-attributes="member: 5412">My old Damascus double shotgun made by someone for a hardware store gun actually shot black powder shells very well but you couldn’t see if you hit what you were shooting at. Had a friend in the business that magna fluxed it for me to see if any cracks in the barrels were evident. They were not, but still wouldn’t fire because the percussion cap nipples were mushroomed, not allowing a cap to be mounted. I’m kind of an amateur machinist, so built some new nipples from stainless steel. The gun was one of mine stolen 30 years ago from the home. Every gun show or auction I go to, always on the lookout for those SS nipples. That’s the identification marker given to LEO as there was no S/N.</blockquote>