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Unread 11-17-2023, 03:31 PM   #11
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Perhaps Mr. Cleveland could mix up a batch of his famous black powder in a brass shell and that might make it go bo-WHOOOSHP !

Quick question- how do you pronounce Bo-Whoop? Ba-WUP? Or, BO-wuup? Or some other way. Just checking.
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Perhaps Mr. Cleveland could mix up a batch of his famous black powder in a brass shell and that might make it go bo-WHOOOSHP !

Quick question- how do you pronounce Bo-Whoop? Ba-WUP? Or, BO-wuup? Or some other way. Just checking.
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Quick question- how do you pronounce Bo-Whoop? Ba-WUP? Or, BO-wuup? Or some other way. Just checking.
One would have to be Col. Harold P. Sheldon, and have heard the report of two shots taking down two high "mallets" over the marsh some 150 yards away, to know exactly. Sheldon gave the iconic gun it's name and only he knows exactly how it sounded that day.

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Thinking about it more I would bet that what caused the unusual reports that Sheldon heard that day were the weather conditions and the location, combined. I have shot doves early in the morning when there was a fog hanging over the field. The sound of those guns going off across the field, in that fog, is vivid in my memory to this day, from nearly 50 years ago. It was indeed a hollow, echoing sound.
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I think the distance does have something to do with the report heard. I have hunted in the Louisiana marshes and at times the distant shotgun reports do have a 2-tone sound; like an echo.
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I know where some original Winchester 1 3/8 ounce loads happen to reside . Saying for that friend again
Winchesters won't cut it!! Bo Whoop was built four years + before the Olins acquired the defunct Winchester Repeating Arms Co.

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Got to be 12-gauge Western Super-X 3-inch.

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Two years after Bo Whoop was built, Western introduced their Lubaloy shot and that became Nash's favored load.

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With Nash's connection with Western Cartridge Co. and the Olins he may have been getting Lubaloy shot earlier than the general public.
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With Nash's connection with Western Cartridge Co. and the Olins he may have been getting Lubaloy shot earlier than the general public.
I'd wager good money that you are right. I've always believed that.
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I had a 12ga. Parker that made a ''Pinging'' sound every time I
shot it. Shooting skeet it would sound off with Ping - Ping.
Do any of you guys know what would cause that sound?
And Yes, it made that noise with any and all shells fired.

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Harry, I think we determined that the top lever was acting as a musical instrument. I put some tape on my lever to identify the problem, but then took the tape off and enjoyed the music. Some tape under the lever seemed to quiet the sound.
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