I can top that. I have a Martini action pistol of the Khyber pass variety chambered for .303 British. When I was young, good looking, and foolish I fired the thing with MkVII cordite ammo at dusk. I think most of that spaghetti must have been burning 10 feet out. The blue, purple, orange, yellow flame ball was at least 4 ft in diameter and 10 feet long.
Much the same results come with the same ammo fired in a Rifle No. 5 ("Jungle Carbine") without the flash hider.
Makes one understand that a flash hider is not to conceal the shooter, but to keep him from being totally blinded by his own rifle.
(I am no longer young or that foolish; still good looking, though, or at least I pretend.)
Jim
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