My mate has a modern repro 12g sbs percussion muzzleloading shotgun and decided to try solid ball, but found it very difficult to ram them down into the barrels, (choked), the accuracy was not great, and the recoil was pretty harsh.

The more he shot it, the easier it became to ram the balls down the barrel, the accuracy got better and better and the recoil reduced, now it shoots great using ball although he does get different points of impact from each barrel.

Not recommended to do this, I have visions of barrels peeled back like bananas

I'm not sure what sort of shot pattern it throws out now, pretty wide open I would guess now he's removed the chokes


Ben