So I go down to the homeplace Saturday afternoon....take 3 guns with me I want to do some practice with....my Mosin-Nagant 91/30, my leveraction 30-30, and my 10/22 that I had to retighten the scope on therefore re-zero.
My uncle said he had a surprise for me...he bought some of that exploding target stuff he wanted me to shoot. So I did some zeroing with the 91/30, getting the distance, and was ready to start. I put the first plastic jar on top of a concrete block on the ground....5 shots later BOOM! Fun stuff. So we put another block out (first one was blown apart) with another small canister of the stuff, and I got the smartphone out and had him video it....[video=youtube;1_iuvSiLOAE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_iuvSiLOAE&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Dang...looks like the embedded video isn't working right.....here's a direct link to the youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_iuvSiLOAE&feature=youtu.be
You can hear how excited my uncle got...he was goin' all Beavis and Butthead on the video....he was having such a good time he wanted to run back to the store and get some more. I said "Fine, that'll give me time to sight in the 30-30". Get that done and he comes back with two small canisters and a big one, and a can of red spray paint. (The guy at the store told him to put the spray paint behind the canister and it would go off too, adding some color and excitement). So we set it up, I hit it, and it doesn't explode...what the heck? So we mix another small canister, set it next to the one that didn't go off, (figuring when it went off it would trigger the other), shot it...and nothing happened. So we waited a while, got a 5 gal bucket of water and dumped on it, then emptied the stuff on the ground. Here are the empty containers:
With the 30-30, I was using Hornady ammo with the polymer tips...my theory is that it was either too fast to ignite it or the polymer tip wouldn't do the job. I don't know.
All in all, a fun day.
My uncle said he had a surprise for me...he bought some of that exploding target stuff he wanted me to shoot. So I did some zeroing with the 91/30, getting the distance, and was ready to start. I put the first plastic jar on top of a concrete block on the ground....5 shots later BOOM! Fun stuff. So we put another block out (first one was blown apart) with another small canister of the stuff, and I got the smartphone out and had him video it....[video=youtube;1_iuvSiLOAE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_iuvSiLOAE&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Dang...looks like the embedded video isn't working right.....here's a direct link to the youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_iuvSiLOAE&feature=youtu.be
You can hear how excited my uncle got...he was goin' all Beavis and Butthead on the video....he was having such a good time he wanted to run back to the store and get some more. I said "Fine, that'll give me time to sight in the 30-30". Get that done and he comes back with two small canisters and a big one, and a can of red spray paint. (The guy at the store told him to put the spray paint behind the canister and it would go off too, adding some color and excitement). So we set it up, I hit it, and it doesn't explode...what the heck? So we mix another small canister, set it next to the one that didn't go off, (figuring when it went off it would trigger the other), shot it...and nothing happened. So we waited a while, got a 5 gal bucket of water and dumped on it, then emptied the stuff on the ground. Here are the empty containers:
With the 30-30, I was using Hornady ammo with the polymer tips...my theory is that it was either too fast to ignite it or the polymer tip wouldn't do the job. I don't know.
All in all, a fun day.
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