If you ever awake feeling incomplete
And have a burning desire to “be heard”, or even cool like Jim Taylor, there are sources to fulfill the need. All it takes is a little money and want, converging at the same point.
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My Thunder Mug ain't that pretty ...
but then, it did not cost $350.00 either!
Made from a hydraulic cylinder, the firing tube is 8" long and has just under a 1 1/2" bore. Loaded with 100 grains of 3Fg and then filled up with Pyrodex P, and a 5,500 grain lead slug pounded down on top of the powder charge, it launched the slug completely out of sight.
The slug was bore diameter and 2 1/2" long. I watched it go up out of sight. Someone caught sight of it coming down and we eventually recovered it about 400 yards away from the launch area.
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