Bacon solved my puzzle

I've often wondered why black powder guns and the shooting of them is so addicting. I was a totally happy modern hunter for most of my life, then a professor of mine invited me to shoot an original percussion double just for a couple of hours one afternoon, and I have never been the same. Well, I think I've found out why it happened. Roger Bacon aka Doctor Mirabilis (Great Teacher), 1219-1292, was a monk at a Franciscan monastery in Oxford, experimented extensively with gunpowder and devised a way to extract and purify saltpeter, potassium nitrate, from soil. He is known as the first westerner to publish the accurate formula and instructions for making black powder. 

In 1242 he wrote: "When the flame of powder toucheth the soul of man, it burneth exceeding deep." 

So, it turns out I'm suffering from a third degree burn of the soul, and can't help myself, Your Honor.

Spence