Blowing stuff up: A Range Report

[Seminole]

He makes it a practice to build one a year. I think I remember him saying that he gives some of them to his grand kids.

I wonder if one of his children would adopt me?

 

[AndyC]

As others have said,thanks for shareing all the cool toys with us.

I may be confused (wouldn't be the first time,even counting just today!) but I was under the impression that dyno wouldn't go off with small arms? Is it possible that the targets were tannerite or some such thing? Possible that they were dyno that was rigged with something to detonate them?

Well, you have to bear in mind that dynamite is nitroglycerin soaked into diatomaceous earth. As Alfred Nobel discovered, it becomes more stable to handle that way - but it still contains a lot of potential energy. You get different grades of dynamite, depending on the percentage of nitro by weight - a gentle, heaving dynamite might be around 35-40% nitro, while something like Hi-drive has immense shattering power (called brisance) at around 80%.

The higher grades are easier to set off with a bullet - but no matter the grade, you still need just enough energy to "tip them over the edge" into exploding, so it depends on the grade of the dynamite itself and the energy of the bullet striking it.

 

[Dr.Rob]

What a great thread.

As for Connie's rifle... you call that a mount? THAT's a MOUNT.

Wicked cool lookin thing.

That's a shoot I have never heard of... but I'd be willing to try my hand with a stock Savage 116 or Ruger M77V.

 

[Geno]

This is cool!

Doc2005

 

[Richard.Howe]

Event website is here, for those interested in the next shoot:

http://www.acsol.net/~firedept/dynamite.html

Rich

 

[stevekl]

I want to know what the heck a 6.5-684 is!

I don't know either but I'm pretty sure you can't find boxes of it at Wal-Mart.

 

[usp_fan]

6.5 x 284 is a fairly popular wildcat for long distance shooting. It gives you all the goodness of the 6.5 projectile like a .260 remington, but with greater case capacity. It's one of the trends in 1000 yard shooting.

--usp_fan

 

[Richard.Howe]

The 6.5-284 is pictured below:



More detailed information can be found at http://www.6mmbr.com/SixFive284.html

Rich

 

[Davo]

Looked like a blast, and those were some great looking rifles.

 

[JackOfAllTradesMasterAtNone]

I am certainly living in the wrong state.

-Steve