I have noticed many new B.P.C.R. shooters want to know if they can shoot smokeless in thier cartridge reproductions. The design of modern B.P.C.R. have better steel in them than was originally used many years ago. The Rifles designed back then could not withstand the pressures that we can get with smokeless. Currently produced Rifles can now withstand those pressures but because the original design was not made for such pressure the manufacturer cannot state that the new manufacture rifles will take it. The government and Insurance companies will not allow manufacturers to say that a 1885 rifle can withstand the pressure of smokeless even if it can.