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I reloaded some 535 gr postell bullets for a .45-70 Pendersoli roller that I once had. A whole lot of lead.
Largest projectile you’ve fired?
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105mm AND 4.5mm in the same day = Mureca !!
Prior to that it would have been 12 ga, 45-70 and .50 cal. in long guns and a .50 AE in handgun.
Prior to that it would have been 12 ga, 45-70 and .50 cal. in long guns and a .50 AE in handgun.
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Way out matched here having never served in the military. You guys got to play with some fun stuff! So, biggest chunk of copper/lead I sent down range (at a prairie dog in SD) was a 400gr 416 Rigby. Why? Why not!
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When I was stationed in California used to go pig hunting.
We would get bored and used ground squirrels for keeping our shooting skills sharp.
405 gr soft points out of a 45/70 was a little overkill for them .
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Duster!🇺🇸
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From a tube, 3" ball from my little field piece.
Does launching a 1978 Moto Guzzi 850 LeMans at 120mph off 'a Big bump in the road' and riding it down count? (vision of Slim Pickens 'ridin the bomb'.....); no control, no wings, no pilots license but I WAS most certainly airborn.
Beat the Wright Bros.1st flight in distance, they beat me in time aloft.
Does launching a 1978 Moto Guzzi 850 LeMans at 120mph off 'a Big bump in the road' and riding it down count? (vision of Slim Pickens 'ridin the bomb'.....); no control, no wings, no pilots license but I WAS most certainly airborn.
Beat the Wright Bros.1st flight in distance, they beat me in time aloft.
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You get a cigar, just for knowing a Duster ain’t a helicopter.
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Got in on the tail of them at Fort Bliss when Vulcan 20mm replaced their role in Air Defense Artillery. My good friend was a crew member on one in Vietnam for ground support. I saw a couple fire at McGregor Range I thought they were impressive. Thanks for your service.👊🏻🇺🇸👊🏻🇺🇸
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A 600 Nitro Express, once, it knock me on my butt, knocked the wind out of me, it felt like I dislocated my shoulder and I was not wearing proper ear protection. I did not enjoy it, but I can say I did it.
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Dr Strangelove? Slim Pickens riding the bomb.
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Gregg wanted to know if the finger holes make the bowling balls whistle when fired. Yes they do. This is an experience best done out in the desert at night. You can put glow sticks in the finger holes and if the powder charge is not too high they will stay there. Watching the glow sticks come down with the really weird whistle is really spooky. Bowling balls nowadays are mostly wood pulp and resin, so if the powder charge is too high, the ball will disintegrate in the bore and come out as just a big ball of very fine wood dust.
While I think about it, I have also fired an original civil war mortar in Virginia, as I recall it was 12”, maybe 10”. A real bruiser which literally shook the ground when it went off.
While I think about it, I have also fired an original civil war mortar in Virginia, as I recall it was 12”, maybe 10”. A real bruiser which literally shook the ground when it went off.
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Growing up the pharmacist/drug store owner, was a Civil War reenactor, he had a cannon, that fired beer cans full of cement, I was dating his daughter and offered to get him empty beer cans, he was not impressed
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For me it’s a 45/70
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