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21-02-2021, 09:41 PM
40mm

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Originally Posted by Beaker

Sitting at the end of the line, and hearing/feeling it come towards you.... Awesome memories!

Oh that sounds awesome. MUst remember to put dynamite on the shopping list.
21-02-2021, 09:48 PM
40mm

Was at a cannon shoot a few years ago and somebody brought a gum ball machine.
Was still full of 'MnM's and gumballs on the other side.
We were all eager to waste it, first glancing shot knocked it over but did little damage.

The next CANNON shot went right up the jacksy (base of the stand) and traveled up the tubular frame, straight into the guts of the thing and blew lollies and money all over the 50m NZDA range!
The kids on site got some pocket money and the possumes/rats partied all night.

Bit weird that it was full of money, but I reckon it was a good result.
22-02-2021, 05:45 AM
Rushy

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

And you are adamant you are not westie bogans out your way.
That's very similar to what happened on one of the last episodes of Westside. Except it was a pokie machine Ted had pinched and they took turns at bashing it at a party.
I'm damn sure that programme was based on the locals from out Hellensville way.

We are Nor’ Westerlr’s out here and just like the wind of the same name, we tend to be warm and strong. Now if you actually believe any of that then .......
22-02-2021, 10:39 AM
GravelBen

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Originally Posted by Steve123

Water melons are fun

Pumpkins too
22-02-2021, 11:09 AM
bigbear

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Originally Posted by 40mm

Smartphone at night flung out of a clay thrower (screen lit up)

@40mm when i was a foreman many years ago one young fella would be on his phone texting all day,warning after warning evening ended up in site meetings about phone use. The dumb arse put it down next to him on a saw stool and as i walked past i shot it to the stool with a nail :D not as got as a clay thrower but same result.
22-02-2021, 11:41 AM
300CALMAN

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Originally Posted by Tentman

^^^ Since we're going down that path . . .

Anti-tank live firing with 105mm M101 Howitzers - a decent size shell (28 lbs rings a bell) at 2800 fps with a tracer in the base. The only time we were allowed to fire the guns at charge 7. Farken big bang at both ends, would literally vapourise a car body at 600 or 800M. Only issue was there was always a fire after the shooting had stopped and it usually took all day to put out! Go 31B battery RNZA

Can't argue with that one other than to say 84 mm fired of the shoulder at an old tank is pretty exciting.

For the Karen's out there maybe you should tell the army to clean up as well.

Back to shooting inanimate objects responsibly in a controlled manner and removing your waste for sustainable disposal afterward.

List so far:

Spectrum 48K - destroyed with 12Ga and 7.62

Beta-max Cassette Player - destroyed with 12Ga and 7.62

Spray Cans - definitely the most fun!
22-02-2021, 02:09 PM
40mm

Quote:

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

And you are adamant you are not westie bogans out your way.
That's very similar to what happened on one of the last episodes of Westside. Except it was a pokie machine Ted had pinched and they took turns at bashing it at a party.
I'm damn sure that programme was based on the locals from out Hellensville way.

Sounds like fun, I thought those guys threw a 9kg lpg bottle on a fire once?
22-02-2021, 02:10 PM
40mm

AH, so many good ideas here.

This thread should be on the top of the list every day!
22-02-2021, 04:08 PM
gundoc

I once built a nice little fire, put a camping gas cylinder on it and retreated to a safe distance. The pressure built up and the concave end popped out to convex but the cylinder held together. I shot it with a .22 and the gas came out in such a rush that it blew the fire out. Bit of a dissappointment really....
22-02-2021, 05:10 PM
Finnwolf

Can of Esky-start wrapped in a burning kero soaked rag and shot with .222 hollow point - fun city!:thumbsup:
22-02-2021, 06:43 PM
Dyls

At least theres others that like to have some fun this day and age. Too many Karen's and not enough explosions.
22-02-2021, 06:47 PM
Bol Tackshin

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Originally Posted by 40mm

That reminded me of when we needed a lot of ice for a keg party.... froze a large rubbish bin full of water in a deep freeze.
Put it on a large tarp and put a 12ga slug through it.
BLAMO, lots of ice. And it was spectacular.

Please tell me it was copper, not lead... At least not for human consumption.

Big blocks of ice are great fun to shoot though.
22-02-2021, 06:52 PM
Dyls

I had a (what I thought) is great idea this morning in the shower. A gas cannister with a pilot light next to it, then to the side an expired fire extinguisher. Set a wee fire then extinguish it from a couple hundred meters away.
22-02-2021, 07:14 PM
40mm

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

That was in the movie Savage Honeymoon.
That may or may not have been tried when some gum diggers were present.

Quite a few tracers have been wasted on trying to improve LPG bottles....
Never with any success though
I reckon a bunch of balloons filed with oxygen all around the bottle, ten put one through it and that should work.
Shame some boring cafe dweller had a bright idea and banned tracers. Really safe from all those tracer mass killings now aye.
22-02-2021, 07:16 PM
40mm

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Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

Please tell me it was copper, not lead... At least not for human consumption.

Big blocks of ice are great fun to shoot though.

It was Roman vitamins.
I did think of that, but it was only for cooling the keg so I didn't loose any sleep over it, plus those munters would have benefitted from some Plumbium in their diet anyway.
22-02-2021, 09:07 PM
tiroahunta

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Originally Posted by 40mm

Sounds like fun, I thought those guys threw a 9kg lpg bottle on a fire once?

Nah the savages in a movie....Westie themed.

Always wondered about a part empty/full(depending your perspective) LPG bottle next to a pilot flame....[emoji51]

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22-02-2021, 09:27 PM
rugerman

many moons ago I threw a 4ish kg 3/4 empty gas canister on a big bonfire I had going and legged it. After about a minute heard the ting ting ting of it expanding then WHOMPH shot a fireball 40 feet into the air and put the fire out. Base of the fire was about 5x5m. a few mins later an Iroquois came over ( were not far from Whenuapi) might have been a coincidence but it sure made a noise :)
22-02-2021, 09:30 PM
300CALMAN

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Originally Posted by terryf

Great fun and cheap as chips, so to speak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDRFFSUrPI

Definitely have to give that one a go.
22-02-2021, 10:11 PM
nzfubz

Cans of expanding foam are spectacular

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22-02-2021, 10:38 PM
Beavis

Those cheap crates of soda from the warehouse are great reactive targets. Added bonus is the pleasant aroma of grape as you pick your rubbish up.
23-02-2021, 01:28 PM
Ross Nolan

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Originally Posted by Beavis

Those cheap crates of soda from the warehouse are great reactive targets. Added bonus is the pleasant aroma of grape as you pick your rubbish up.

I used to buy them on special and use them as targets with my (then) 5 year old daughter. Good fun with a 22, and easy cleanup.

Better fun with a 22.250, more involved cleanup.
04-03-2021, 06:35 PM
XR500

100% tracer out of a GPMG in SF mode:thumbsup:

Most NZ Army training areas ban tracer during the summer (very effective at starting fires), so the poor buggers in the ammo area have to pull all tracer rounds out of the belts (normally 4 ball 1 tracer as purchased from overseas)

Come wintertime and a fire power demo, or support weapons course, out come the 100% tracer belts. Like squirting a big red flamethrower all over the place. And you learn a lot about ricochets! (hint, ricochets can come off almost any surface, and at almost any angle. You wouldn't believe it till you see it)
04-03-2021, 06:37 PM
Rushy

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Originally Posted by XR500

100% tracer out of a GPMG in SF mode:thumbsup:

Most NZ Army training areas ban tracer during the summer (very effective at starting fires), so the poor buggers in the ammo area have to pull all tracer rounds out of the belts (normally 4 ball 1 tracer as purchased from overseas)

Come wintertime and a fire power demo, or support weapons course, out come the 100% tracer belts. Like squirting a big red flamethrower all over the place. And you learn a lot about ricochets! (hint, ricochets can come off almost any surface, and at almost any angle. You wouldn't believe it till you see it)

It is a sight to behold alright. Last saw it in 1973.
04-03-2021, 06:48 PM
Finnwolf

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Originally Posted by XR500

100% tracer out of a GPMG in SF mode:thumbsup:

Most NZ Army training areas ban tracer during the summer (very effective at starting fires), so the poor buggers in the ammo area have to pull all tracer rounds out of the belts (normally 4 ball 1 tracer as purchased from overseas)

Come wintertime and a fire power demo, or support weapons course, out come the 100% tracer belts. Like squirting a big red flamethrower all over the place. And you learn a lot about ricochets! (hint, ricochets can come off almost any surface, and at almost any angle. You wouldn't believe it till you see it)

Yep, roads, rivers etc made for interesting ‘experiments’ when seeing how tracers ricocheted peeled off in acute angles everywhere, sometimes almost at right angles from where the bullet entered the river.

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