Craig; I admire you and your huge-bore buddies for continuing to load for and shoot these shoulder cannons! Before our sweltering second round of clays this morning at our local Izaak Walton, "Eightbore" Bill Murphy and I reminisced about our close friend Daryl Middlebrook, a PGCA life member, who lived for not just the 8-ga. doubles, but also the 6- and 4- gauge singles, both of which he owned and shot whenever he got the chance.
He somehow always turned up a full box of 4- or 6- gauge loads, mostly from UK auctions, mostly Eley or Kynoch, then he would trade with collectors who had less than full boxes so he could shoot them without destroying the "full box" collector appeal. He could not get enough of the big guns, both in design and function, as well as the pure "funkiness" of shooting them. If he were alive today and could put it together, he would come to a shoot like your buddies just hosted. I really miss him!
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