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Our usual New Years Eve at friends got scratched because of flu bug at their house. Sooo... I'll be home tonight. I've always thought about it but never did it: Make up two 12ga black powder blanks - 160 grains of 2F black + 1/2" fiber wad compressed with a full stroke of my MEC JR. should I point up in the air or in a safe direction for best results? Thanks, Craig 
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This site has a recipe for black powder blanks: http://www.tbullock.com/bpsg.html"Control F" Blanks. Best, Mike
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Every New Year my brother in law loads up his sawed-off Spanish sxs and wakes up the neighborhood with some Win factory loaded 12-bore blanks. He just points at the moon and cuts loose; other than the noise, which is very loud from those short barrels, we have noted no ill effects.
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"should I point up in the air or in a safe direction for best results?"
No, point it at your cat. Of course, point it in a safe direction. DUH!
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I'll go with point at the cat! HA HA HA HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE
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In Arizona,where I live, this would ensure you ended up in jail if caught. We Have a prohibition here barring the firing of any weapons within the City limits anywhere in Arizona called Shannon's Law. The law was enacted after a 14 year old named Shannon while sitting in her backyard was tragically killed by someone shooting a firearm into the air on New Years Eve several years ago. This has always been a popular and irresponsible(IMO) activity of certain ethnic groups in the past but the law has somewhat curtailed the practice. I don't think that arguing you were only firing blanks would get you off the hook either.
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Did Craig say he lived in a municipality, or around other people? There are actually people on this board who live way the heck away from ANY other people, and where there is no law against discharging a firearm in your own yard. Me, for one.
The idiots who were shooting in the air inside the city limits should pay with a life sentence for killing the young girl. But, the whole world is not a city in Arizona, and she was not killed with a blank, or even bird shot I'll wager.
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Guys-
I live in a semi-rural township, my nearest neighbors to the north and east are 250-300 yards away. News Year Eve gunfire is a tradition around here. We have a one year old female pomeranian/chihuahua mix. On further reflection I may have given poor dog a coronary if I'd cut loose with both barrels in the old Stevens from the back porch!
Maybe next year or when the Steelers when the Super Bowl!!!
Craig
Last edited by CraigF; 01/02/11 04:15 PM. Reason: spelling error
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