The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Tactical Rifle & Carbine => Topic started by: billt on April 29, 2010, 10:26:41 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUUM3yY8B3k
Cabela's now stocks Exploding Targets! I believe these are the Tannerite type that are used in a lot of the bigger full auto machine gun shoots. They are inert until you mix the ingredients, and then they are still very safe to handle, but not ship. They require a 40 grain bullet at 2,200 FPS, (.223), to detonate. These seem to be priced a little cheaper than I've seen them in the past.
I was at a desert shoot a couple of years back and a guy had a 5 pound batch mixed. He set it out at about 150 yards. It was in a plastic jug like the kind water comes in. He shot it with a Springfield M-1A. When it went off you could feel the concussion in your chest! It went off with a huge cloud of white and yellow smoke. Great for when things get boring at the range, providing you're out in the sticks. Bill T.
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We talked about this a while back when History Channel (or maybe Discovery) did a show about people shooting these up. About all the major online outfitters are selling them now too. I think they would be a lot of fun, I just dont have anywhere to enjoy them.
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Those sound like fun. Just make sure you don't run afoul of the fire control folks. They will hang your ass for stuff like that in the dry season.
FQ13
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One of the guys at work tried out his Mosin 9130 this past weekend on Tannerite. He said he started out with a half pound, then tried a lb. He showed me the picture of the stump it was on after touching off 1.5 lb.
He blew the side of the stump off and some of the flying wood chunks came back and hit him. I don't think he read the safe distance part.
Any bets on how long it takes to ban Tannerite to individuals once the mainstream media starts running stories on it, or someone blows themselves up?
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Any bets on how long it takes to ban Tannerite to individuals once the mainstream media starts running stories on it, or someone blows themselves up?
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye........ ;D ;D ;D
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I think we've found a new question for the "You might be a reneck if...." Category. If you think filling and old fridge with gasoline and tannerite, and then standing within range of the shrapnel,is a good idea,then you might just be redneck. ;D ::)
FQ13 who is wondering if the orders from Iraq and Afghanistan are going to start coming in, from both sides. ;)
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I think we've found a new question for the "You might be a reneck if...." Category. If you think filling and old fridge with gasoline and tannerite, and then standing within range of the shrapnel,is a good idea,then you might just be redneck. ;D ::)
FQ13 who is wondering if the orders from Iraq and Afghanistan are going to start coming in, from both sides. ;)
;D
Mild explosive compound + original plastic container + shot with high powered rifle= expensive fun and a big boom.
Mild explosive compound + enclosed metal appliance + shot with high powered rifle= instant Claymore Anti-Personnel Mine and an expensive trip to the ER.
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My range allows Tannerite, makes a nice little ka-boom when used in moderation. ie Dixie Cup, or small tupperware.
Really focuses on accuracy. Takes a high speed round to set off.
Adding gas, and a large amount = Darwin Candidate, and/or idiot.
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when gas was cheap( less then a buck) we use to take gallon milk jugs, fill then with gas, put a candle behind them, then try to hit them with a M1 at 200-400 yds at night.
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At my friends fun gun shoot last year we mixed enough to fill a gallon jug and set in an old dodge dakota. It was at the far end of the range and when it went off the cab went about 50 feet in the air. That was a crowd pleaser.
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when gas was cheap( less then a buck) we use to take gallon milk jugs, fill then with gas, put a candle behind them, then try to hit them with a M1 at 200-400 yds at night.
We've done the same type of thing with a paper plate and a can of carb & choke cleaner.
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We've done the same type of thing with a paper plate and a can of carb & choke cleaner.
That makes you entirely responsible for "Global Warming"...... ::)
We used spray paint, and other aerosol cans,...... ;)
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That makes you entirely responsible for "Global Warming"...... ::)
We used spray paint, and other aerosol cans,...... ;)
expired fire extinguishers are also fun, just make sure they are low on presure. So are lpg tanks that can no longer be used. the one ATM of gas in them and API ammo = big boom.
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Mapp gas tanks for Bernzamatic torches ;D
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Mapp gas tanks for Bernzamatic torches ;D
Yep.
When hit with a .223 projectile, they will also fly 200 yards down the Ocmulgee River.
(Don't ask me how I know....I just know.)
;) ;D
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when gas was cheap( less then a buck) we use to take gallon milk jugs, fill then with gas, put a candle behind them, then try to hit them with a M1 at 200-400 yds at night.
Back then Melanie and I used to drive out into the desert and shoot. I would get these 5 gallon metal grease pails, (the kind with the metal tabs on the lid you would bend over to seal.), from work. We would bring them along with a couple of jerry cans of gasoline and fill them to the brim and seal the tabs. I would set them out at 250 yards or so and place a candle on each side about 2 feet from the can itself.
When dusk came I would drive a .458 dia. 510 grain Hornady Soft Point into them with a max load out of my .460 Weatherby. The resulting fireball was huge, and the lid of the can went straight up over 100 feet. It was better to mix half and half gasoline with Kerosene because the fireball would last longer and give off a unbelievable cloud of think black smoke. Kerosene is getting expensive and hard to find, and they are building farther and farther out into the desert these days so it isn't worth the trouble. Now that I have the my .50 BMG I would love to try it with a round of API, but as I said it has all been reduced to a memory because of more people and more building. Bill T.