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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,849
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Originally Posted by John Rogers
At our July anniversary shoot and steak fry several years ago one of our shooters brought out his English 75 caliber big game hunting muzzle loader. We shot cards set sideways, a circle, small steel silhouettes and a swinger about the size of yours. He loaded up a full hunting load of Swiss 3f, 140 grains I think, so anyways when he fired it off the ball hit the gong and the whole thing flew 25 feet or so backwards! Found the round ball just slightly flattened where most of ours are flat as a pancake!
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Yowza! I'd like to have seen that. I assume it got everyone's attention? No one was still napping after.
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Steve
'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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