George, was that bruise from firing a Nock's volley gun ?
7 barrels of +50-cal ball and BP going off at once do feel a bit like Selous' 4-bore.
That can make the shooter spin like a weather cock in the wind, as the Brits might say.
Or like a weathervane.
Sort of like Nock's form versus knoxform.
Sort of like to the victor go the spoils: