 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. This 12 gauge firearm was shipped directly to my house. Never had anything like this happen before. No FFL transfer forms, 44, 73, anything of the sort. It was shipped UPS directly to me and it was actually pretty cool. I enjoyed that part of it. This is made by American Guncraft. They have a whole bunch of side-by-side 12 gauge firearms. This is called the Desperado. The Desperado has 11 inch barrels and it is chambered in 12 gauge. It's a single action 12 gauge pistol and you hold the rubber hand guard right here. You grip it, pull the hammer back and fire away and I will show more with that because it was a learning experience for me and I learned quite a bit with this Desperado. The action levers are right here to open it up. You can see right there, it has a couple of breech plugs. That's where the primers go. Why does it need primers? This is a black powder 12 gauge and I had to learn the process but once I learned and how it works and the easiest way to make it work, it was a lot of fun at the range. The easiest way to shoot this is to use a slug. They have these right on their sight. This is a slug and if you put the primers in where I showed you, just put them in with your thumb, just push them in there and you get a black powder pellet. All you have to do is put that in the barrel and use your rod to push it down into the barrel and you can fire away rather quickly and easily. That is the easiest process with this black powder 12 gauge but also you can use shot. I used buckshot, double up buckshot. And in order to do that, you put the pellet in along with the 209 primers, you put a wide and then you put this over the shot and you fire shot. Whether it's bird shot, buckshot, you name it. Any load you can fire with this. It's a 12 gauge. Now when doing so, and this is unloaded, I just cleaned it. You pull the hammer back and get a nice firm grip on there and you fire away. It also has a selector switch right here and it will let you choose what barrel you wanna shoot. You would go the opposite direction. So if I wanna shoot the right side barrel, I would move this to the left because that is where it'll make contact with the firing pin. So it's on the right side now and you can see the firing pin take off. If I move it back, move it to the left side, we'll take a look at that and you can see the firing pin do what it needs to do. But to simplify this, I decided to make a loading video. Check it out. You can see how this thing loads and fires. Let's do that. I mentioned that the easiest way to use this is with the powder pellets. 50 grain powder pellets, you just drop it into the barrels and then put your shot in or however you wanna do it. Now if you wanna use loose powder, you could do that as well. No problem. If you're a black powder guy and you wanna use loose powder, once again, you could use the wide and the overshot and you could still shoot slugs if that's your choice or any type of bird shot or buck shot that you choose. I went with just buck shot because I took this to the range only one time and I had to learn it. But let's take a look at this. Now the trigger guard is super large and you cock that hammer back and the trigger pull is a bit on the heavy side but that's okay and pull that hammer back. There's your selector switch, you pull it again and you get two shots. Now it is very cool. It is very gunpowder-ish, meaning it's rather smoky and that's one of the effects that you get with black powder. It's different. If you're into something different and you love 12 gauge, this thing is super cool. You could put a couple slugs in there, load it up real easily, put a couple 209 primers in there and you're good to go. That would be the simplest way to do it but the loose black powder will work as well. When I took this to the range, I decided to shoot a few more slugs than the buck shot and let's go ahead and check out and see what that looks like. Those slugs hit super hard and this you literally could hunt with. Now I mentioned it has the 11 inch barrels, a beaded front sight, black grip, handguard. It's all black, it's called the Desperado. The MSRP on this is 757 and if you look at their site, American Guncraft, they have many other variations of the Desperado or the Desperado's variations of what they have. However it works, they do a very nice job with black powder 12 gauge firearms and this was a lot of fun. It took some learning, some education but once you get that and you keep it clean, you have to keep black powders clean or it'll be tough to jam your wads and everything else through there but if you keep it clean, it'll do the trick for you. I would have never been able to handle this project if it weren't for TAB videos. He led me through the process. He was right there through the thick and thin of learning this thing and then once I got it, it became a more common practice of loading and firing this thing but it's a lot of fun. It is different and if you're a black powder person or you love slugs, this is a great way to go and get something like this shipped directly to your home without having any paperwork or anything like that because that is the law with black powder. It's called the American Guncraft Desperado. Very cool 12 gauge, glad I have it. Would make a cool little under the bed firearm and keep it away from the kids and everything but it's accessible, it's got a little weight behind it as it should, it punches you back a bit but it's a nice firearm, glad to have it and I look forward to firing some more of these slugs because those suckers hit hard. 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