Thanks, fellas. It's one of our favorites. To answer two email questions we have this info: First, the dark colored chunks that fly upward from under the milk jug that exploded when hit squarely at 100 yards, are 6 or 7 dried cow pies we used to get the water-filled jug above most of the prairie grass so we could see it. Second, we tested the gun previous to those movie shots and got the following recoil distances based on shooting a 9 oz., 12L14, solid steel, bolt with expanding skirt with 300 grains to 518 grs. With the gun on a longer chassis, we got about 1.5 feet with 300 and almost 5 feet with 518 grains, the scale equivalent to 16 lbs in a full sized Treble Banded Brooke. We needed to 'catch' the recoiling gun during our movie testing because a shorter chassis/rail assy. was used. We have tamed the recoil on our customer guns, using a completely invisible, proprietary mechanism, while still using full scale powder charges so no 'catching' is now required even with a scale 20 Lb. powder charge of 648 grs. Allen, we only had one target out there that day at 100 yards. You can't see it in the 3rd segment, behind the gun, because the camera's focus was on Mike and the Brooke.
We are finishing those Brooke rifles for delivery in July and August now, so there will be very little else coming from us unless I can get Mike to go to a 12 hour per day schedule, but he is getting really cranky on a 10 hour schedule, so I doubt he will go for more hours!
Regards,
Tracy and Mike
