Thread: Nobel No.2 shotgun powder

Who made 'red dot' was it a Nobel product.
I had an American who wrote books about shooting bears contact me and ask if I could get him a net gun. I had a spare and who needs two net guns this day and age, so I said he could have one. So one day he turns up at our place and Nek minnit he is setting up his video camera up on the tripod. I said straight off I am not going to fire the bloody thing for you it kicks like a bloody mule, I am scared of it, and I am to old for that shit. He soothed my feathers and said he would film me folding the net and packing it and loading the weights into the barrels.

Then he asked me as a special favour to fire it for him and with a bit of flattery applied as thick butter I agreed.
I had some shells loaded with black powder that were pretty soft loads so I picked one out of the box and picked the end open and spilled some powder on the bench. It looked like what I was expecting but my excuse was the shed was dark. Any way I took another cartridge out of the box and loaded it and fired it. Well bugger me its a wonder more people wernt killed by those bloody net guns. Luckily I was holding it a bit to the side of my body because it went off with a roar like one of Nelsons double shotted cannons at Trafalgar. The gun ended up on the lawn behind me I thought I had damaged my thumb, my hands had pins and needles for an hour. The net fair flew through the air and three weights blew clean off the net and disappeared in the direction of the neighbours never to be seen again. The American was deaf but impressed.... "Goddamn...I never seen anything like that before' he said.

I sidled back into that shed and had another look at the powder that I had spilt on the bench and I could see these little red dots in it.

I never did work out how that springfield action held together. a 30 06 cartridge case full of shotgun powder trying to push a quarter pound maybe more of steel weight out of each barrel. I am only guessing about a quarter of a pound when I get my own net gun back I am going the weigh those weights.