Incidents at the range.

Follow the link on my post below. Tannerite is a binary explosive, meaning it takes two parts to be mixed before it becomes explosive. Until they're mixed, they're completely harmless and legal to be shipped or transported. Unlike other binaries, this stuff is relatively low powered (not to be underestimated! Still makes one hell of a boom!) and very stable. It takes a high powered rifle round to set it off. We shot at a block (looks like a quart milk carton) with a 9mm.... nothing. .223? KA-BOOM! :D Uh, a word to the wise, the instructions say be at least 100 yds away, and they aren't kidding :eek: . And no, you can't get it at Wally World. Only at Tannerite.
 
Sounds cool but the explosion didnt look that cool in the vid.
Again, something that I can get at walmart for about $5.
Aerosol.
I have read that gas works OK.
Or gunpowder.
Maybe propane.
Of course I would need to put a candle behind the target. It would burn slow and might take off. It would be a fire hazard. :D
 
I can vouch for an almost empty 1lb can of propane. We set it up with a small fire behind it, shot a 7.62 and HOLY CRAP what a fireball. Not a quick one either, it lasted a good 10 seconds. We thought the grass/weeds to the side was going to ignite.:eek:

So if you shoot a *full* can, be absolutely sure nothing is flammable around it and you're about 50 yards out.
 
vehicle starting fluid?
how much does it cost?
can i get it at walmart?
I am afraid of shooting a propane tank.
Couldnt it rocket into the air and fly off somewhere else?
I dont want to be responsible for a forest fire or property damage.
But then again, i would have an incident at the range to report.
:D
 
Nearly every trip to the range, I get to shoot someone else's firearm.. Of course I return the favor... That is the worse I have experienced, god has it cost me $$$$.
 
There were three ladies in the lane next to me. One was teaching the other two the basics but all they had was a tiny .32 which was so small and light it probably wasn't comfortable to shoot. I loaded up my Ruger MkII and offered it to them for practice. They went through a few magazines, murmured much appreciation, and finally left. On the way out I passed them as they were buying their own .22 (a Neos, IIRC) which comes with a free year's membership at the range. We exchanged pleasantries and I walked out of there knowing the ladies had a positive experience and would be back again.
 
if you plan on shooting something like starter fluid, hairspray etc. remember that you need to have a flame near the target, as the bullet will not ignite the substance.
 
^^^

Unless you're shooting incendiary rounds that is. Tracers will also ignite flammible fluids, or so I have been told.
 
I have told this in other places but

Was my first time to this range and was by invite only, large range with 100 200 and 300 yard with pits.
I was there to shoot a 100 yard match with a HK SLR-8. The friend that was sponsering me was also spotting for me was behind my position with a scope.
"Comence firing"
Brought my gun up and got my breathing down and relaxed and brought the gun to my sholder, switched off the safety.
And a hammer hit me in the face.
Glasses gone, blood gushing out my nose.
I cant see, my gun is loaded, safety off and I cant drop it, I fumble for the safety and yell out "Some one take this gun!"
The friend behind me says, "Ozz go ahead and shoot!"
SOME ONE TAKE THIS GUN!!!!
He finaly sees that somthing is wrong and walkes up beside me and says
"What happend your gun blow up?"
Well the language that I used at this point I will not shair with you but finaly I got my point across to take the gun and clear it.
Next problem no one knew any thing about an SLR-8 so I had to describe how to clear it!
About this time the range safety officer sees that there is somthing wrong, not from the blood coming from my face but from the guy standing next to me with the barrel in one hand and the pistol grip of an AR 15 in the other and nothing inbetween.
He was shooting right handed and I was left of him. Some how the T handle of the AR got past him and hit me in the face.
After the club senior member investagated the accident they found out that this NUM nuts had loaded pistol powder in a 223.
OH by the way that was his second round that blew up the gun, had two holes in the target.
He did say that the gun did feel a little bit different when it went off. His only problem was that his hands were num for several minutes.
Yes they let me become a menber, and there have been jokes about naming the club after me, had I started a law suit, I probably would have owned it, but then again I couldnt stand being that close to lawyers I let it go.
 
In my club events I have been RO more than I have ever wanted to be. The first thing about a club and shooting is it must be safe then it MUSTbe fun.:D The ROs have got to get this figured out to increase club memberships an thus we are allowed to keep our guns.

Some of the things I have seen, runaway full auto guns, holes in the ceiling of the covered range, droped guns, thrown guns on the draw, people who had no business with a gun.

Guy was teaching this old family member to shoot a 22 auto. He showed her to pull back on the slide to get it loaded, point it then pull the trigger to shoot. Well as I walked by I saw loaded rounds on the ground and she was doing just what he said.

She racked the slide,pointed the gun and shot her semi over and over till the gun was empty. Don't leave your guest alone.

As I was walking up I saw a woman nearly shoot her husband in the butt. He was Mr. cocked and locked and she was MS dumber than a stump. He handed her a loaded gun then turned to grab a wooden block to throw and she touched the gun off while it was pointed at the ground sending gravel against his buttocks. Sent em home of course.

It goes on.

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For me the most common problem at my local outdoor range is people touching their guns or adjusting their sights after a cease fire has been called and people walk down to check their targets. They always say something like, "it's not loaded", or they "took the bolt out", or sometimes the gun is loaded, with a round in the chamber, and they just put the safey on :eek:! How hard it is? When people are down range checking targets your gun is unloaded, safety on, and you don't even touch it!:mad:
 
I am interested in the human need to toy with the machines of war. I have noticed my sporting arms occasionally giving me the poison breath of burnt propellant gas or a love tap with a scope. Maybe it was my pistol caressing me with shards of unburnt powder from cheap ammo that got me started thinking that way...

... but easily the best range story (best- it means memorable, right) is this kid who lives about two blocks from me and whose daddy was a civil war renactor. The kid was ramming charge down a cannon and it had a spark evidently because the discharge removed his lower arm and I believe the elbow joint as well. He has had a prosthetic for a lot of years and does well, but man o man what a bad day at the range.
 
Shooting Range Safety

Yeah, this can be scary stuff. I shoot at a range where a lot of U.S. Marines and Law Enforcement types go. That is pretty good but this one Marine who should have known better barrel swept me with his AR-15. I thought he should know better than that. I am pretty sure it was unloaded at the time But I still did not like it.

Yeah you guys are right. If U see something messed up at the range, Just Fricken leave right then and there.

When I was in the Ready on the Left-Ready on the Right-Ready on the Firing Line U.S. Navy, there seemed to be a staff person in the range with us at all times. The range I go to now only has a staff person when he is in there sweeping up brass. Otherwise they are on the other side of the glass. I would feel better if some staff person was right there. Oh well.
 
No ROs at my range. It is more of a club and it is usually empty in the afternoon. They have a few rules, like no more than 10 rounds per minute, but no one to enforce them. I could probably blow stuff up there. :D
 
Another time I was there I decided to shoot my CZ52 through a rifle muffler.
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czc3513: I did something like that as a teenager. Actually, I'd decided to make my own rifle silencer out of a 2-liter pop bottle. :rolleyes: It actually looked pretty stupid, and was impractical since it completely obscured the sight line. Oh, and it didn't work either (in fact, it had the opposite effect:o). Anyway, I only had a .22LR and a .30-06 Mauser at the time, so I decided to test it out on the .30-06 (since the .22 isn't very loud anyway). Without hearing protection, of course. Let's just say the shockwave was so strong I think I felt it as much as I heard it.

As for range incidents, one time (again, as a teenager) I was shooting .22 rifles with a friend on his parent's property. I had just finished loading his rifle for him and handed it to him. He immediately shouldered it, pulled the trigger, and...nothing. "Is it loaded?!" "Yeah," I said, "but I think the safety is on." He fiddled with his rifle for a minute and then says, "I don't think that's the problem." "Yes it is," I replied, "I remember putting the safety on." "No it's NOT!"--and then he clicks the safety off and starts jiggling the trigger from the hip to show me that the safety wasn't what had prevented the rifle from firing. Jiggle, Jiggle, Jiggle, BANG! Fortunately, he was trained well enough that he knew to keep the rifle pointed down range the whole time, and when it did "accidentally" go off the round went harmlessly towards the target. Moral of the story? Good safety training can overcome a lot of stupidity from distraction or immaturity.

Besides that, there was one incident recently on my own parent's land where a hunter and his daughter were on our property without our knowledge and inadvertantly found themselves ducking a barrage of .40 cal. and 7.62mm rounds (no one was injured, thank God!). The idiot actually had permission to hunt on our property, provided that he let us know he was out there (usually by parking his truck in our driveway). However, this day (and probably other days when we didn't catch him) he decided to "sneak" in onto our land from the side, probably so that he could hunt after dusk without anyone knowing. Funny thing was that he fired two shots as a distress signal (hunter education course teaches that three shots is a distress signal), and then had the nerve to yell and cuss at us later for continuing to fire. I sure hope that potential moonlight poaching was worth putting his life and that of his daughter at risk.:mad:

-Charles
 
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