Someone Actually Told Me This Once..Your Thoughts?

Oh, Mr. aarondhgrahamn, I grew up watching Circle-6 Ranch with Scoop and Snoop from Channel 6 in Bluefield, West Virginia. That was the only station we could get. They showed old cowboy movies and was probably on about 5:00 in the afternoon. They too had kids as guests and I was on the show one memorable afternoon. First and only TV studio I was ever in. The Circle-6 ranch (If I'm remembering the name correctly) was in Galvanized Gulch.

Life just hasn't been the same since that show went off the air and DeSotos went out of production.
 
Try this on for size and let me know what y'all think: I have a comic book from the mid-'80s in which the main character is pursued through the jungle by enemy soldiers. He stops long enough to bury shotgun shells just below the surface, with the primers down and resting against a nail. The running soldiers step on the shells, the primers are struck...BOOM. I have my doubts on this one too...seems that the nail would need something to somehow keep it hard against the primer. But assuming that it did somehow get set off, what do you think the effects on the hapless victim's foot would be? Like the BB gun thing, with no barrel to travel down, would it drastically reduce the velocity [and thus the tissue damage] of the shot load?
 
On a similar note, I recall a Streets of San Francisco episode where a hit man kills his victim by wiring a 12 gauge shell into his ignition housing. Not sure if the housing would make a good chamber; also not sure how the hey in the ignition would fit in front of the shell.
 
He stops long enough to bury shotgun shells just below the surface, with the primers down and resting against a nail.
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My bet would be that the nail would be pushed deeper into the dirt unless there was a solid object preventing it. I haven't tried it and don't intend to, but the odds of the ammo going off seem about the same as winning the lottery to me.
 
Primers require a sharp blow to detonate, too. You'd have to stomp on one, not just "step" on it.

If you set it up right, with a rock under the nail and dirt packed tightly around the shell AND the BG stomped on it, like he was running after you, I'd be willing to bet that it would be bad news for his foot. No where near full-power but I don't think it would be good.
 
Had an uncle who used the .22lr and rock trick out of curiousity.

The casing itself flew apart and part of it imbedded itself in his face under the skin. He didn't dare tell Grandpa who apparently was not at that point the kindly old man I remember but a holy terror when you did something that stupid. It didn't heal of course, and when he was brought to the Doctor for the infection the entire story(as well as the casing fragment) came to light.

Apparently he was sore at both ends for quite a while afterwards.:D

It's a little tough to blow off the story as my uncle pointed out the scar when I asked him about it.
I remember the story quite well because my Mother told it to me over and over again, usually when she discovered that I was indulging my curiousity about what household substances combined to have explosive results, except for the one time she told it after the skunk incident of '77 (how was I supposed to know they were going to react that way? I got along with them just fine, geez, calm down.)
 
Scrubcedar: Skunk run-in, eh? We've recently started seeing them here where I live. I know very little about them, other than to avoid them, and that they apparently speak French.:D
 
As a teenager in the mid-1980s, I recall having a conversation with an older guy
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I remember having an "older guy" tell me when I was a kid, that if you were to step on a grave, the skleton would reach up and grab you and pull you down with him. :eek:

I've been skeptical of "older guy" tales ever since then. ;)

Kids today don't fall for my stories at all.

I do recall trying to set off shotgun shell by shooting the primer with a BB gun. We never did...at least not that I recall. We probably never hit the primer anyway.
 
All these silly schemes sound about as likely as Captain Kirk making a diamond-shooting shotgun out of an empty log and propelling them with home-made gunpowder... saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal.

:rolleyes:
 
I once watched this done with a pellet rifle and a live 30-06 shell when I was about 15 or 16. The guy who did this: 1)ruined a perfectly nice pellet gun and the barrel was shredded for about 3.5" from the muzzle. 2) cussed alot while his mommy pulled little pieces of brass from his face and hand.

DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS AT HOME.
 
As a small child we lived very near a gun range with a clays section of some sort.

We'd sneak in and find the occasional live 12ga shell on the ground.

Of course they wouldn't fit in our BB guns so we'd lay them on the picnic table and shoot at the primer from "safe" distance of about 10 feet with the BB gun.

We used a LOT of BBs to get there but we did have a few that worked.

That picnic table looked like hell and when my buddy's father found out we were all beaten severely by EVERYONE's parents at some point that summer.
 
When I was younger, I used to get those 12-gauge flare gun shells, and shoot at the primers with a BB gun from a distance to set them off. It worked - hit the primer and you're rewarded with brightly burning magnesium. Always wondered what would happen if it were a shotgun shell instead of a flare shell.
 
I do recall trying to set off shotgun shell by shooting the primer with a BB gun. We never did...at least not that I recall. We probably never hit the primer anyway.
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I set one off like that when I was a kid. Luckily, I'd already dumped the powder and shot. The primer blew out and I still have the scar it left after rocketing into my belly.
 
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