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I once fired a No. 5 with the flash hider removed, at dusk. That was when it got through my dim bulb brain that a flash hider was not to keep the enemy from seeing the flash, it was to keep the shooter from being blinded.
That Mk VII cordite ammo produced a red, orange, blue, purple flash about 3 feet in diameter and about four feet long, and left the shooter and everyone around him blinded for several minutes.
Jim
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