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A Simple Game

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3. James Mitchner gave a very good description of one in his novel Chesapeake.

Reply to X_Digger (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 30, 2012, 09:37 PM

Jan 2012

If I recall they were normally loaded with a pound of powder and a pound of shot. They would row out at night to the edge of a flock of sleeping geese floating in the bay and blast away. They would normally get 20 or 30 birds in one shot.

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