Re: (TFT) notes somemore

["Chris Nicole" <chris_nicole@operamail.com>]

Jay,
The ashes were added to the shot, not the propellant.
Shot is heavier than powder...

Still, 101 kills from 275 shots looks like pretty good shooting to me.
Especially when compared with the fast draw results.

Regards,

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Carlisle" 
To: tft@brainiac.com
Subject: (TFT) notes somemore 
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:37:17 -0700


Oddness from a day's research.
In competitive holstered pistol fast-draw events a 22" circular 
target is missed roughly half the time from 21 feet away.
This is roughly 2 Scale-hex squares in diameter for the target from 
about 5 hexes away.
I heard that on History Channel's "More Extreme Marksmen" programe.
Then when following Guy Fawkes and James II outta York I came upon 
the following.

"(England) - The widow of a vintage shotgun expert had her 
husband's ashes loaded into cartridges and used by friends for the 
last shoot of the hunting season. Joanna Booth organized the shoot 
for 20 friends after asking a cartridge company to mix the ashes of 
her late husband James with traditional shot. A total of 275 
12-bore cartridges were produced and blessed by a minister before 
being used for hunting at an estate in England. Booth said it was a 
marvelous day out and her husband would have loved it. "It was not 
his dying wish, but I remembered he had read somewhere that someone 
had had their ashes loaded into cartridges and he thought it was 
very funny." The cartridges accounted for 70 partridges, 23 
pheasants, seven ducks and a fox."

So Wikipedia says between 4 to 6 pounds of ground ashes from a cremation.

I have a rough mix of gunpowder calling for about 15% charcoal.
I'll call it a die mix w/16.6ish% charcoal for the percentage of a 
given die face.

5.5 lbs of charcoal (1 pt of ST moves this mass 1 ft per second) 
would make around 33 pounds of black powder assuming ground 
cremation ash equals gunpowder charcoal.
Good black paint comes from bone ash.
Charcoal is a slow burn though. but I guess one could "instruct the 
mortician" on oven temps and times.
Anyway, it seems a good load for target rounds today is about 17.5 
grains for a eighth of an oz trap-round.
At 7000 grains per pound, 5.5 pounds makes about 13,000 rounds.
This suggests about 1300 rounds per animal taken in the "it was not 
his dying wish." shoot.
However, the figure states 275 cartridges were made.
I'm off by an order of magnitude obviously (likely the charcoal) 
but having chosen 5.5 pounds to pound home a point, it surprises me 
to see the thing at around 50 times more shots for my 100% 
conversion assumption. nothing says the widow converted ALL the 
ashes into powder. if she only used 1 pound.

About six months to copy/write a Wycliffe bible with good materials 
just before printing.
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