2 8" shells from a labor day shoot we did for a local fair

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robert kinnane Member Registered: December 2006 Location: West Tennessee Posts: 239	· Date: Thu September 6, 2007 · Views: 1,021 · Filesize: 38.0kb, 56.1kb · Dimensions: 680 x 510 ·
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propyro2

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Registered: July 2007
Location: US
Posts: 127

Thu September 6, 2007 12:40pm

what is that on top of one of the shells?

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Bill Corbett

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Registered: October 2005
Location: Bartlett, Tennessee USA
Posts: 564

Fri September 7, 2007 3:55am

They are called "rising effects", in other words a 2-1/2" shell without a lift charge. The time fuse is sticking out of the shell and is crossed matched. It will go off (burst) about 200' high then the 8" shell will burst even higher. Sometime there are several shells tied to the big shell.

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