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What Makes Cannonballs Explode?; Is It Necessary To Cowitness A Red Dot Sight?; More ATF Abuses: Gun Talk Radio | 05.26.24 Hour 3

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🗓️ 26 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In This Hour: --  How to cannonballs work?  What makes them explode? --  What does it mean to "cowitness" a red dot sight, and is it necessary? --  Congress reviews recent ATF abuses. Tom Gresham's Gun Talk 05.26.24 Hour 3

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0:00.0

The Ruger SF-A-R is one of the Tremas 308 modern sporting rifles available.

0:05.9

More power, but lighter in the field and range.

0:08.6

See how light it is at Ruger.com.

0:12.3

Welcome back to Gun Talk.

0:14.0

I'm Tom Gressin.

0:15.0

We're talking about, well, all things that go bang, including today, for some reason,

0:18.6

cannons and cannonballs.

0:20.6

We've had questions about that and people are offering their thoughts. I just got an email from Dan. He says, hey, some cannonballs used Pickrick acid, PIC, RIC, as the explosive charge.

0:34.5

If it got wet, it could react to form lead or iron pick rate.

0:40.2

This is extremely dangerous, because when it dried out the slightest vibration could set it off.

0:46.7

Not a good idea to collect old cannonballs.

0:51.4

Okay, information there, there you go.

0:55.0

Hey, by the way, if you wanted to join us, it's 866 Talk Gun or easier still.

0:59.0

Just do it this way.

1:00.0

Call me at Tom Talk Gun. We're absolutely open lines if there's a gun you want to talk about

1:06.7

ammo, you're trying to find some ammo, he's trying to get into reloading, trying to find something

1:12.1

out there, or maybe you are just at that very early part of thinking,

1:17.0

maybe I need to carry a gun. How do I go about that? What's the right gun? What's the process? Call me? Look, there's no dumb answers. We all started some, there are dumb answers, no dumb questions. We all started somewhere, and I'll see if I can help you out.

1:37.0

At least we can start the conversation going.

1:38.8

Again, 866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun.

1:42.3

Heather called in out of Nevada online one.

1:45.0

Heather, you made it on to Gun Talk.

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