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.905 cal. rifle


2talltim

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A friend of my dad's bought a 20 mm cannon barrel at an auction and built a muzzle loader out of it. He had to machine his own molds to cast his bullets. They were almost 2 inches long. I was 13 at the time and was present for the first shot. Blocked it up, put the butt against the wheel of a back hoe and tied a string around the trigger. It took about 1/2 an hour for 3 guys to take turns pounding the round down the barrel. I think they put 250 grains of black powder in but this is over 20 yrs ago. When it fired you could hear the round spinning. Smacked right into a tree and made a decent amount of damage. There exists somewhere a Polaroid of me standing next to this gun, it had to be 7 ft long.

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