How to "deconstruct" a LP tank w/ a .223?

[Navy_Guns]

You guys crack me up! Someone brings up the subject of blowing up a propane tank and everyone is hooting and grunting as their inner cave-man howls at the moon. Then someone brings up the subject of modifying, sporterizing, or bubba-fying a milsurp rifle and they get beat down by the milsurp morality police!

P.S. I tried blowing up a can of engine starting fluid once with a .22 LR - it was totally anticlimatic. If only I'd used one of them shotgun slugs... :banghead:

 

[MilsurpShooter]

What about a sterno can or liberally smearing the sterno content on the propane tank? Shoot into or above the flame with the shotgun.

 

[Zero_DgZ]

About the best you can get from a propane tank is a lot of fire. There's no O2 inside the tank for the fuel to mix with, so it won't explode. Only the propane that exits the tank can burn as it mixes with the air. It's kinda boring, actually.

Bingo.

You get a jet of fire, or a jet of rapidly evaporating liquid-to-gas propane if there's no ignition source handy. Now, a deer slug through a camping stove size propane bottle is enough to tear the whole thing asunder if there's pressure in it or not, and leaving a road flare next to one of those makes a more satisfying (though less voluminous) fireball instead of the more boring "woosh."

Sit the thing on top of a jug of tannerite and you might be on the right track, but then you have shrapnel concerns and you still need an ignition source nearby. Or, you may just launch the flaming wreck of most of the bulk of the propane tank straight at your head, or in any other random direction. So I wouldn't be too keen to try it if I were you.

 

[Ifishsum]

One more thing, let all the propane burn out before you go kicking it around. A tank I had just shot was still burning a little, and as I kicked it away from some branches it lit up a little. Seems by some amazing physics miracle the stuff can remain liquid for a while longer even though the pressure is gone.

LP stays liquid under pressure, but when you dump the vapor quickly (IE, through a hole shot in the side) the liquid freezes and stops vaporizing. As it warms it lets off more vapor (it's the vapor that burns). So it might as well be nearly empty if you try it.

 

[Ghost Tracker]

Darwin was RIGHT!

With the Gun Restriction fans gaining a bigger voice in the arena of American Public Opinion every day...this is EXACTLY the kind of conversation that gives the nonsense spewed by Rosie O'Donnell credibility to those who might be on-the-fence.

If you want to make the Pyro Hall of Fame, that's perfectly FINE with me. I've made useless booms and pressurized fuel fires myself as a youngster. But DON'T give the Gun Grabbers more ammo by talking openly about the best way to DO it! (chain it securely to something {through the carry hole} and throw it in a good sized fire. Run like hell to at least 50 yards away and shoot it from behind cover. The chain will control the rocket-thrusting tank).

Now STOP IT...I mean it!

 

[Snowdiver]

I've done the road flare thing many times, it works. Just set the flare on the ground in front of the tank, go back, way back and shoot the tank. Quite a fireball.

 

[sanglant]

i just have to say........ sell it and buy AMMO


james

P.S.
and hello

 

[MD_Willington]

Propane tank.
Lit road flare.
Duct tape.

LOL.. same recipe was provided to me by a member of the local law enforcement

Entrapment?, nah, they just like things that go boom!