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Beautiful pinfire shotguns,,,very interesting and informative posts too.
I'd guess you have to be very careful not to drop one of those cartridges onto a hard surface.

Kutter, I read all of your posts. Wish we had a ton more like yours. Yes, dropping one of the pinfire shells seems like it could be a problem. I have never had that happen. The French, and probably later , the English, developed some cartridge carriers worn on the belt like these.




The pins were protected. I have never had it confirmed, but would guess the pinfire cartridge was developed because of what primers were on hand at the time. The percussion primer, of course. To make a breech loading gun with percussion primers , the next step was the pinfire. Most pinfires did not have extractors, but used the pin to pull on while removing the fired cartridge.

Talk about obscure stuff...pinfire cartride boxes even!

Too much cool...