Posted: 1/9/2007 5:46:38 PM EDT
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Update on exploding target project distance, 30 yards (just close enough for 200 grams to move my hair). Weapon, M4 carbine with Aimpoint loaded with WOLF m193 Ball rounds. In all targets but the last, I placed 100G of AN/AL into 2 clay pigeons, then taped them together. I placed them in a plastic bag that I taped to the side of a 12" thick log. Clay pigeon packed with 100G black powder-failure Clay pigeon packed with 200G ammonpulver-failure clay pigeon packed with 200G 95% Ammonium nitrate from Ice packs, 5% 200mesh aluminum bronzing powder-Failure clay pigeon packed with 200G 95% Pyro grade Ammonium nitrate, 5% 200mesh aluminum bronzing powder-Failure clay pigeon packed with 200G 95% Ammonium nitrate from Ice packs, 5% 2 micron dark Aluminum powder-SUCCESS, the Log I was using as a target stand blue up into splinters. To be fair it had dozens of bullet holes in it and there was about a pound of un-detonated ammonium nitrate under. Clay pigeon packed with 200G 95% Pyro Grade AN and 2 micron AL powder-success Clay pigeon packed with 200G 95% (80/20 AN/Ammonium perchlorate), 5% 2 micron AL powder-success Clay pigeon packed with 200G 89% (80/20 AN/Ammonium perchlorate), 11% 2 micron AL powder-success cardboard tube filled with 70/30 Potassium perchlorate, AL powder-Success |
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I got 5lbs from http://www.firefox-fx.com/ChemA.htm its dry 200 mesh powder. I got another 3-4 lbs from ice packs. you can buy 70G ice packs for $1 at Kmart and dicks sporting goods, you can also buy 140G one for under $1.50 at walmart and the dunhams in rochester. make sure it says "Ammonium nitrate and water" not "urea and water" |
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I never shot out at the pit, but i drove by and checked it out, figured it was getting dusk and maybe it was a little to late to shoot, so i walked around and checked it out and picked up a little..... im planing on going sunday after the BR show, as far as i know its totaly legal to shoot on state land but explosives out at the pit doesnt sound like a good idea to me at all maybe i was just droped on my head to many times as a kid.... but that kinda fooling around should be on private land where the only attention you attract is yourself on your own private land... we need to keep a low profile... or atleast give off a good one... we should always leave the pit in a better condition than we arrived too, 5 mins of picking up stuff isnt that bad..... we should work with the people who live close by and not do stupid stuff like this... or be like the fool dual wielding the ar15's out at the pit, when i hear of things like this i shake my head at the thoughts that run thru some peoples mind.... really... it might be fun till the clip runs empty but it wont be cool when then end is here and we will olose our privlidges to shoot at places like the pit... exploding targets would be cool... if legal.... but not at the pit... do it on private land and we dont need that kinda publicity at the pit atleast not right now... we have to much negative publicity... all we need is another AWB and to loose another cool place to shoot like the pit... |
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Just so you guys know, exploding targets are legal as long as you don't transport them mixed. What he is making is just like Tannerite. It is a two part binary explosive. Again, as long as it isn't mixed before using it, it is legal. As for doing it at the pit, me sitting here and bitching at him is not going to change a thing. He is going to do it either way. I don't like the idea of it and wish he wouldn't, but I might as well learn from it and not let it go to waste 100%. I really don't think the pit is going anywhere. IMHO, the DNR has made it clear that they have no plans of shutting it down and the people that are bitching about it are SOL. They aren't going to ruin it for the rest of us. It is their own fault that they didn't research where they were buying their house. |
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Well, I am not going to give him a free pass. What he is doing is not very smart....and I am not 100% you are accurate about using it on state land. Once mixed it is a binary explosive and I am not sure ANY explosives are legal for use on state land and anyway I don't want to get into a disscussion of what is and what is not illegal....I am simply saying that why do something that is so overtly not acceptable. The shooting is bad enough, why try really really hard to make a bad situation even worse. |
I'm not sure on the state land part either. I would be curious to know though. Kris |