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Posts: 872 | Location: Lindsay Ontario Canada | Registered: 14 April 2001Reply With Quote
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When I try to view this, I can hear the shot but I cannot see anything. It's just a small box of blurred colors.
 
Posts: 18352 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah USA | Registered: 20 April 2002Reply With Quote
<Todd G>
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I wonder which hurt more...shooting it or being the spectator?
 
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Yeeeeeesh.

Reminds of what the British used to say about shooting a WW2 PIAT anti-tank grenade launcher, "The only thing worse than shooting it was being run over by the tank you were shooting at."

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Posts: 580 | Location: Mesa, AZ | Registered: 11 May 2001Reply With Quote
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Two ouches for the price of one, what a deal!
 
Posts: 641 | Location: Indiana, U.S.A. | Registered: 21 October 2000Reply With Quote
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I guess he's been reading too many articles from our esteemed gun writers and was not prepared for the 'big slow push'of the 4 bore, we always hear about.

Slow gentle push my a$$.
That was superb.

Karl.

 
Posts: 3533 | Location: various | Registered: 03 June 2000Reply With Quote
<Mike Griffin>
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I think this was the event where both barrels of the 4 bore went off at the same time. a double whammy
 
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<Bill Tompkins>
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All,

That was definitely a double. We've shot the 4 bores and 8 bores out here and the effect is not nearly that bad.

Bill

 
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I grew up with that story about F.C.Selous's 4bore muzzle stuffer misfiring and when handed back to his gun-bearer for a quick fix(recapping) the nervous man loaded another 20 drams of black and another 4 oz. bullet. When he let loose that incredible load, old F.C. said he was "spun around like a weathercock in a hurricane". When I saw that video I just about fell out of my chair. I must have watched it 15 times.

-Catter

 
Posts: 789 | Location: Central Texas, U.S. | Registered: 20 December 2001Reply With Quote
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