Ever thrown a bullet in a campfire?

[John828]

lightninstrike,

The key is fire preparation and proper can placement. I have done it many times successfully--at least enough to consider myself no mere amateur of the art.

You need a proper "missile tower." It can be constructed on a nice bed of coals using three decently sized backlogs placed in a triangle. They need to be placed so that the middle of the triangle is approximately half again as big as the diameter of the can. Now you got yourself a proper missile tower. You can be assured (for the most part) that your missile will not fly at any angle less than 70-80 degrees and if there is just an explosion, most of the shrapnel will fly upwards or be blocked by the sides of the backlogs. BUT, it never hurts to watch from under a camper shell bunker.

 

[Lightninstrike]

John

ROFLMAO

 

[svtruth]

I did not,

but read (here maybe) about a guy who put a 12ga shell in an appropriate sized knot hole and then shot at it with a pellet gun. After many shots, he hiot the primer and the hull hit him painfully hard.

 

[ZeBool]

I can't say I've ever intentionally thrown rounds into the fire, but it has happened. I was helping my buddy clean out his Grandmother's attic, when we found a box of stuff that she told us to just burn. Little did we know that there was at least one box of .22 rounds hiding in there. Nothing happened, but it got mighty exciting for a second or two standing beside that fire! Now, on the other hand, we probably blow up anywhere from 75-100 two pound coleman propane cans each summer, with the grand finale being a 20 lb grill tank at the end of summer. THAT'S a good time lol

 

[Carl N. Brown]

A coupla years ago I got a good bed of hot coals going in a 55 gallon drum and tossed in junk ammo (and moved to a safe distance). While there were some interesting fireworks, nothing penetrated the side of the drum, although a few casings exited the top and fell down.

I embedded some 12ga black powder blanks in a clay bank with the primers exposed and shot at the primers with a .22: when I got a solid hit they would go off. The cases didn't go far.

Years ago, when I was younger and dumber, I held a .22 in a candle flame by pliers: the bullet popped off but the case flew across the room.

All in all, I would say don't try this at home.

 

[theotherwaldo]

No, but I have been present when we were burning the trash at the firing range and some idiot had tossed some misfires in the trash. Annoying, but not very dangerous.

Also, I went down to a surplus store after a fire. There was brass shrapnel all over the place, some of which had flown far enough to break windows across the street. I didn't see any bullets in the road, just brass.

 

[mgkdrgn]

Nope.

Never jabbed a sharp stick in my eye either.

 

[Mike J]

Ya'all made me think about a kid I grew up with. He was always the kinda crazy mean one. Anyway we found a bunch of loads for a Ramset or Hilti type powder acuated tool. He proceeded to run up & down the street setting them off by hitting them with a chunk of concrete block. Think he was having a great time till a piece of that block blew off & grazed his forehead.

 

[Duelist]

Nope, but I have tossed in Bic lighters, bottle rockets, cans of beer etc.

 

[mike724]

"no, but judging by the way this guy lights his fires, i bet he has"
I figured there would be some beer in that video!

On a hunting trip once, I always put my snack wrapper trash in my pocket, then emptied it all into the wood burnining stove back at the cabin in the evening. One evening, something happened to break my unloading routine, and i stuck 5 rifle rounds in the trash pocket. Yup, they wound up in the hot stove. I cleared the cabin, and wore glasses while I shoveled out the fire. Not long after, the smoke had cleared, and the cabin had rewarmed. I can't go back to that camp, even 11 years later, without hearing jokes about "hot loads".

 

[saltydog452]

Yessir, I have.

Learned it from Gene Autry hisself.

Seems Gene needed to distract the bad guys, so he tosses some ammo into their campfire, (or down the chimney/stovepipe of the cabin, depending on which version was showing that Saturday morning), the black hats get all distracted and Gene rushes in and whups them all.

I got whupped as well.

More recently, I learned that chert/flint does not play nice in a fire either.

salty

 

[Marcus5aurelius]

My troop had stories from a long time ago where some scouts thought it would be a fun idea to make a game of, throw a propane tank into the fire and fish it out before it explodes. After a few rounds it fell into a part of the fire where they couldn't fish it out from, so they ran for their lives and when it exploded they found shrapnel stuck in a few trees. Good times.

 

[paul]

Yep...
I'm an anti's wet dream...

Thousands of fires and thousands of rounds with nary a scratch (so far)...
The Ol' Lady wasn't too pleased with the condition of her chiminea (sp?)
following a coupla .308's though...

But then again, I'm stupid and have no friends.
p

 

[BADUNAME37]

No, I haven't.

 

[woodybrighton]

years ago my brother took a clip of .303 off a cadet who had stolen it from the range best way to dispose of it chucked it on fire
brief pause as everybody realised what he'd done then legged it for the horizon in all directions sounds of rounds cooking off dumb and potentialy dangerous anyone for russian hopscotch?

 

[Lightninstrike]

Russian hopscotch??? LOL

 

[rcmodel]

See this link for info on what happens:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=4735515&postcount=20

It's not the bullets you have to worry about.
It's center-fire primers, and .22 RF & handgun cases, with occasional pistol round case shrapnel.

rc

 

[CWL]

When I was 6 and living in Washington State, our house had an exposed furnace with a front gate. I remember throwing a bunch of .22lrs into it one night and hearing them cook-off with enough force to hit the furnace walls like a hammer blow. Wouldn't want to be hit by the flying brass.

Yeah, I was a stupid kid.

 

[Lightninstrike]

Nope, but I have tossed in Bic lighters, bottle rockets, cans of beer etc.

Sacrilege !!

 

[Klusterbuck]

Shytheed Dumas



Todd???? That You?

 

[damien]

Her brother, my uncle, pissed on a sparkplug on a running lawnmower on a dare when he was a kid. That is another story entirely, and I don't think I'd recommend that either. Guess when you were a poor kid growing up in the oil field in West Texas back in the '50's there wasn't much to do for entertainment

I accidentally touched the sparkplug on a mower once that was running. It gives a pretty good shock and burnt my finger due to it being very, very, hot, but I don't expect it could be lethal. (I'm still here, just sayin...)

 

[CoRoMo]

Many years ago, a couple young boys in my neighborhood took to shooting at .22lr cartridges with their BB guns. The bullets seem to be harmless without the benefit of a chamber, but the cases were violent. A case hit me in the knee and it scared me, but I was okay. Little boys shouldn't be doing such things, therefore I cannot confirm nor deny my involvement.

 

[Justin]

While this action isn't demonstrably harmful, I do believe that it is in contradiction of THR's mission of advancing safe and responsible firearms use.