Thanks Dave. I had understood it started sooner, like shortly after smokeless and nitro powders became popular and folks weren’t heeding the warnings NOT to load to the same recipes they had always loaded black powder to… and burst their gun barrels.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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