If you were to ask me the thing that I miss about not being in the military, it’s not making things explode. I know, the service exposed a character flaw (if you want to look at it that way), but there is a deep satisfaction that comes.
and, circa 1963-1966, being paid an extra $55 a month!
So, was that a big container of Tannerite?
A few years back, I shot a small jar of Tannerite that was sitting on the top of a five gallon bucket. It was dusky dark and I could barely make out the bucket. I was using open sites on my AR and hit it with the first shot at a hundred yards. There was quite the flash, but the Boom was masked by the crack of the rifle.
It may not seem like much, hitting an object the size of a can of soup at 100 yards with a high powered rifle, but it was dark and I had cataract in both eyes at the time.
I don’t know if elevation matters, but we were sitting at about 7,500 feet in Northern Colorado.
No sound?
Nice. It really was an earth-shattering kaboom.
Thanks.
It’s also nice to see a tannerite explosion where someone doesn’t get hurt or near hurt because the shooters aren’t stupid idiots.
Hey Old NFO,
You fogot what day it is? Happy Birthday!
LL/WSF- THAT… 🙂
Mike- It was 2lbs of Tannerite, flat plate explosion at 125 yards. We were at 4500 feet
Bill- Lousy cell phone.
Beans- It was loud 🙂
SCPO- Happy Birthday to us!
Hey Old NFO;
*In Marvin the martians voice “No Kaboom?…Where is the Earth shattering Kaboom?”
Bob- It was there, phone didn’t capture it due to overdriving the mic.
If you were to ask me the thing that I miss about not being in the military, it’s not making things explode. I know, the service exposed a character flaw (if you want to look at it that way), but there is a deep satisfaction that comes.
and, circa 1963-1966, being paid an extra $55 a month!
So, was that a big container of Tannerite?
A few years back, I shot a small jar of Tannerite that was sitting on the top of a five gallon bucket. It was dusky dark and I could barely make out the bucket. I was using open sites on my AR and hit it with the first shot at a hundred yards. There was quite the flash, but the Boom was masked by the crack of the rifle.
It may not seem like much, hitting an object the size of a can of soup at 100 yards with a high powered rifle, but it was dark and I had cataract in both eyes at the time.
I don’t know if elevation matters, but we were sitting at about 7,500 feet in Northern Colorado.
No sound?
Nice. It really was an earth-shattering kaboom.
Thanks.
It’s also nice to see a tannerite explosion where someone doesn’t get hurt or near hurt because the shooters aren’t stupid idiots.
Hey Old NFO,
You fogot what day it is? Happy Birthday!
LL/WSF- THAT… 🙂
Mike- It was 2lbs of Tannerite, flat plate explosion at 125 yards. We were at 4500 feet
Bill- Lousy cell phone.
Beans- It was loud 🙂
SCPO- Happy Birthday to us!
Hey Old NFO;
*In Marvin the martians voice “No Kaboom?…Where is the Earth shattering Kaboom?”
Bob- It was there, phone didn’t capture it due to overdriving the mic.