Posted on 03/23/2015 6:05:09 AM PDT by rellimpank
Geeez—was this guy a democrat?
A single bullet rocked a neighborhood?
In Vietnam for fun we would make “mini-mortars” out of .50 cal tracer. Clamp the projectile in a vise & work it loose, pour out half the propellant, then drop the projectile back in & pour the loose powder on top.
Bury the round at an angle with just the case mouth showing, touch a match & get away. The loose powder burns down & ignites the primer & then POP! the projectile flies through the air with the tracer base lit for s***s & giggles all around.
Unconfined propellant does not explode.
Technically speaking, blow torches have not been used since the 50’s or 60’s. What our brilliant media has done is invented words for acetylene, propane and MAP gas torches much like they invented “box cutter” to describe a common utility knife.
Sorry for the rant, I have a pet peeve for the mindless media.
And don’t forget, when crime or evil is done, in today’s media the “doer” is most frequently described as a “gentleman”.
Sounds like it may have been a MK211 Raufoss round.
We did the same thing with shotgun shells.
Hiding behind a large rock or boulder we’d use our BB guns to shoot at the primers and then duck down immediately. Luckily, nobody got killed when the empty cartridges flew past our heads.
What fun we had as kids! I miss the good old days.
I’m thinking it was one of these:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/blog/afp_Bullet.htm
When it's home, it's not military any more. It's mine. It's what I do with it that counts. FYI.
—saw a single round fired by a custom manufacturer of military stuff several years ago at an Arizona machine gun shoot—was amazed at how much bang can be packed in a .50 cal projectile-—
Well, of course, Hortense. Now, run along outside and pick some daffodils for the centerpiece.
An M20 APIT projectile contains powdered magnesium and strontium peroxide. It will go boom if heated with a torch.
Nah, it wasn’t the beer. It was the Jack Daniels.(sar.)
Now why in the hell did he take a torch to it? Should just hit it a couple of times with a hammer!
Isaac Newton would have not been surprised by the result of your experiment, only glad that nobody was hurt.
Or HEI. Someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.
What kind of bullet explodes?
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