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Educate me - why would a load be stuck where you couldn't just clean out the nipple, reprime and fire?
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I'm sure you noticed he did not know what the load was. While it was reasonable to assume that his father had left a legitimate black powder load in the gun, the fact that nobody recalled that there was ANY load in the gun makes that assumption a dangerous one. Perhaps the father really had emptied the gun and in the intervening years someone else loaded it, this time with smokeless powder. Unlikely? Yes, very, but you don't risk your face and hands on bets like that unless you're a fool.
Never, ever fire an unknown powder in a black powder gun.