Setting 12 Ga Shell off with Torch (Video)

What will happen if you set a torch to a 12 Ga shotshell

  • Burn furiously, shot and primer will stay in shell.

    Votes: 5 7.0%

  • Blow shot out of shell, primer remains.

    Votes: 3 4.2%

  • Blow primer out of shell, shot remains.

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Blow primer our one end and shot out the other.

    Votes: 7 9.9%

  • Rupture out the side of the case.

    Votes: 34 47.9%

  • You'll shoot your eye out!

    Votes: 21 29.6%
  • Total voters
    71
  • Poll closed .
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It isn't dangerous with proper safety precautions -- I would be wearing eye and ear protection, and would leave the torch in place, while I stepped back.

This is informative -- most people think ammunition will "blow up" and "spray bullets everywhere."
 
Agreed. What I did as a child with a BB gun and primers was dumb and dangerous. The results really shouldn't be surprising if you've ever taken high school physics but informative nonetheless.
 
Interesting enough that the powder went before the primer. I'm not even remotely suprised at the overall result, but I did figure they would go together.
 
I expected the primer to go off, ignite the powder, and sorta push it out the shell. The heat getting to the plastic was unexpected. There was no 'safe' way to apply heat just to the primer... well at least that we could think of.
 
I don't know about an entire shotgun shell, but many years ago I tossed a 209 primer into a BBQ. The primer cup blew a hole through the side of the BBQ that resembled that of a 22 LR round.

GS
 
I would set up a fixture, like a cradle, and set the torch up so the tip of the flame touched where the primer would be, then drop the shell in the cradle and jump back.
 
I didn't watch the video, but voted a few days ago for the answer with 22 votes, I am assuming that was correct. But I suggest you find something less unstable to do before one of these things goes sideways on you.
With all due respect.
 
george burns said:
I didn't watch the video, but voted a few days ago for the answer with 22 votes, I am assuming that was correct. But I suggest you find something less unstable to do before one of these things goes sideways on you.
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With all due respect to your not watching the video and commenting on it anyway, research was done prior to the range session and the danger was pretty slim. Still, safety precautions were taken. Thanks for your concern for my safety. If you find research that contradicts the 150 years of data from countless sources that find what I did to be safer than driving the car to the range, please feel free to post it.
 
My other post was removed which would have answered your question, about a gas explosion next to my business. The propellant always take the path of least resistance. Thus a superheated hole in the paper becomes the exit .
Once you weakened the structure with the torch, you minimized the integrity of the shell, thus opening the exit area.
 
Once you weakened the structure with the torch, you minimized the integrity of the shell, thus opening the exit area.
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Yeah, there was no good way with our setup to focus the heat just on the primer. I though of a soldering iron, but that would require contact that would restrict the rear of the case.
 
I watched a couple of these videos, and am just curious - what's the point? Are you trying to simulate something that could happen in real life, or just curious what would happen if you focused a lot of heat in some spot on various ammo?
 
As a kid I saw a demonstration of a 30/06 cartridge suspended from a string with the primer over a candle, all in a cardboard box. The detonation was mild - nothing penetrated the cardboard.
 
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