Yup, exciting for sure. And with enough recoil that it might take a few minutes to know if you missed or not.

This wasn't intended as a dangerous game gun (.635 ~ 18 gauge, ~50" twist), but a bigger version of it would be what I would have expected.

This is circa 1830s.



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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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