arcticap
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It began with a post by THR member gotgcoalman from the UK back in 2008.
He visited a quarry where there was an 8mm thick steel girder or plate of some sort planted in the ground,
and he shot a hole through it with his Kentucky rifle and a tightly patched .433 round ball that was double wadded and 100 grains of 777.
He said that the only other rifle able to shoot a hole through it was a .30-30.
Some folks on the THR black powder forum didn't believe him so he set out to prove how powerful the load really was.
He set up a steel plate in what appears to be an alleyway with his sons taking video, well you'll see the result including the recovered ball.
He ended up dislocating his shoulder and needed to have it popped back into place at the ER, and his young son was hit in the leg
by a lead fragment caused by standing too close to the steel plate while taking video of the shot.
His son ended up being okay with only a small scar on his leg.
But he did shoot a hole through the steel plate which only goes to show how powerful a Kentucky rifle and a patched round ball can be.
He visited a quarry where there was an 8mm thick steel girder or plate of some sort planted in the ground,
and he shot a hole through it with his Kentucky rifle and a tightly patched .433 round ball that was double wadded and 100 grains of 777.
He said that the only other rifle able to shoot a hole through it was a .30-30.
Some folks on the THR black powder forum didn't believe him so he set out to prove how powerful the load really was.
He set up a steel plate in what appears to be an alleyway with his sons taking video, well you'll see the result including the recovered ball.
He ended up dislocating his shoulder and needed to have it popped back into place at the ER, and his young son was hit in the leg
by a lead fragment caused by standing too close to the steel plate while taking video of the shot.
His son ended up being okay with only a small scar on his leg.
But he did shoot a hole through the steel plate which only goes to show how powerful a Kentucky rifle and a patched round ball can be.
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