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Originally Posted by Mike Franzen
John Hosford was shooting the black powder loads. I was in the vendors tent the first time he touched one off. It shook the whole tent. I have never heard any gun boom like his did. The recoil was tremendous. I would have loved to see that go off at night.
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I’m sure it was very much like the concussion that reverberates throughout the shooting grounds when Frank Cronin touches off his massive 10 bore Parker with a heavy charge of black powder.
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