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Old 09-23-2012, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Targan View Post
I was a little bit too close to a few explosions back when I was a shotfirer (aka powder monkey). I know exactly what Grimace says about the "funny feeling" you get in your chest. I suspect he's talking about an explosion that occurred near him in actual combat, and I'll wager that he was somewhat closer to his explosions than I was to mine.
No, not combat for me. Underground mining and blasting "rounds". Still, the blasts were fairly sizable, and I while I was "technically" at a safe distance, when close to 700 pounds(around 300 kilos)of explosives went off, it still had quite an impressive effect on me. I could only imagine what it would be like being closer to the blast and within range of the flying debris.
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