ORIGINAL: Firehawk7309
Why not just use the gun the way the manufacture suggested? Let them do the "proofing" and you do the hunting. I must admit that I've never heard of this before.
If one builds a gun, including installing the breech plug in the barrel and instalkling the nipple & drum or touch-hole liner, it would be foolish NOT to proof test the barrel before firing the thing from your shoulder!
He's not talking about a gun he bought already made!