[rlmorel]

It looks to me like they still hump those shells, which I guess, in an extreme combat situation where you don’t have a nice little machine that helps out in some way (I don’t even know if they have those or not) you would have to revert to.

Is it as nut crunching as it seemed from the video (relatively high fire rate, it seemed)?

[PROCON]

I was in the fire direction center, (FDC), believe me, those 175mm and 8" shells were HEAVY, not to mention the numerous powder charges they also humped to the gun or Howitzer breach depending on the range needed.

I don't specifically remember the rate of fire but probable 5-6 rounds per minute.