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Big bore rifles like that were necessary in the days before smokeless powder. Black powder can generate only so much energy, so the bullets had to be big and heavy. That thing would have been a beast to carry, much less shoot.
Big bore rifles like that were necessary in the days before smokeless powder. Black powder can generate only so much energy, so the bullets had to be big and heavy. That thing would have been a beast to carry, much less shoot.
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