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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 88538, member: 25&quot;]<i>I read a couple stories from news sites about a guy who restored them had one explode and kill him.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Unlikely. Unless this was the very first one this guy who restored them had restored, surely he&#039;d know a mortar shell from an artillery ball and in any case, causing a 150 year old gunpowder charge to explode would be quite a trick. Water ingress over the years should have rendered the powder inert by dissolving out the nitre. </p><p><br /></p><p>At least it sounds too small to be a sports shot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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