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Old 04-06-2008, 01:11 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Anyone heard this before
On 2008-06-04 11:42:06 +0100, (Nick Maclaren) said:


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Rusty Hinge 2 writes:
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| Well, er, no.
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| It takes a sphere bullet of just over an inch in diameter, an equal
| volume of gunpowder (upped a bit if you suspect you have rhinos in the
| rhubarb), and yes, it is fired from the shoulder.

Boggle. I live and learn. I always understood the heaviest shoulder
fired shotgun to be a 6 bore, and the heaviest widespread one to be
8 bore. Thank you for educating me.

A 4 bore is more likely to be a rifled or smoothbore slug gun as
opposed to a shotgun - they used to use them for shooting elephants
and other large beasts in Africa.

This is pretty neat:

http://www.cybertorpedo.com/africanh..._part01_01.htm



Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


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