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INDEED! I still shoot an original infantry 'trapdoor' Springfield rifle and a Shiloh Sharps carbine in 45-70. I resize and reload the Springfield with black powder and use only factory modern nitrate propellant rounds in the carbine; saving the brass for the Springfield reloads. Both weapons are absolute thunder hogs capable of serious carnage. At the range, heads turn at the blast from the long Springfield. I let the kids fire it just so they can say they once did so. The single-shot breechloader weapon was last used by US reserves in the Spanish American War but could not hold its own against the Spanish Mauser weapons on the battlefield in Cuba.