Meeker

The sound of history come to life

by Lucas Turner on December 27, 2023

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\**A replica Civil War-era cannon owned by Steven Brickey was fired at the Meeker Sportman’s Club shooting range in December as a trial run to test sound levels and operations.**

The resonant, low frequencies rumbling up and down County Road 11’s nooks and crannies on a Thursday in December could easily have been mistaken for the sonic boom of a fighter jet, or loud thunder claps traveling outward from a lightning strike to those…