Just a little anecdote about shooting thin barrels.
1989 whilst working in motor racing I was asked by my boss to go to Wales to supervise the loading of an old landspeed record car called Babs onto a freight truck to be taken to Achen in Germany for a car show. (Google the story of 'Babs' , Parry Thomas , Owen Wynn Owen and Pendine sands)
Owen lived in a cottage on the moors near Bethesda alongside the A5 a major road , the only way we could get Babs onto this truck was by taking truck and Babs down the A5 about one mile to a milk churn loading ramp in a layby. No problem says Owen and he then drove Babs unlicensed, unsilenced, with its Napier aero engine at full throttle down the road with me and the freight truck in pursuit . Safely loaded and despatched to Germany , Owen says "fancy a bit of shooting?" I pointed out the lack of guns . "No problem " he said and produces a Purdey hammer gun from beneath the cushions of the settee I was sitting on , the left barrel had a large hole in the left (outer) edge of the barrel a couple of inches back from the muzzle. "We can't shoot this Owen " says I , "Of cause we can, use the front trigger and don't miss " said Owen . So off we went onto the moor to shoot grouse and later to fish for trout all of course without permission or licences!
