Thread: Reactive targets - keeping it fun for the kids

Originally Posted by Tommy

They take 150 psi

and the rest, I use the sides of them as burst discs and they hold more.
Ive found Pepsi bottles are the best for dry ice guns

I wonder how many “potential” forum members never made it?

I just shoot the cans of crappy sugar fuzzy drinks the Warehouse sells, you know the brands you have never heard of.

@GWH what time are you going down? I still have your stock.

Originally Posted by septic

@GWH what time are you going down? I still have your stock.

should be there by 10am

Few chunks of dry ice and a bit of a shake makes them pop

Originally Posted by stug

Mate best one is a full camping gas canister. Just don't shoot it with the valve pointing towards you!
Another good one is a catering can size bake bean can. Leave the lid off and sit an empty one on top. Shoot the bottom one, the top one goes flying up in the ear.

2 person game.
Fill a coffee can or baby food can - push lid type can, with water, lid on.
Put a empty drink can on top.
First person with a rifle (black powder front stuffer ) shoots the bottom can.
Second person with a shot gun (prefer black powder....) has to shoot the flying drink can before it hits the ground.
Sounds easy........ but is bloody great fun!

Cheap and nasty fizzy drinks in small plastic bottles, add drop of dish soap, shake them before you shoot them.

Originally Posted by Cordite

Cheap and nasty fizzy drinks in small plastic bottles, add drop of dish soap, shake them before you shoot them.

That's what these were, I tipped the drink out. Shooting the fill drink bottles wasn't that exciting so thought I'd try something else.

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Originally Posted by GWH

That's what these were, I tipped the drink out. Shooting the fill drink bottles wasn't that exciting so thought I'd try something else.

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top them right up to the brim. they generally pop better

The .22LR may have a greater "shock" effect to set off and displace C02 from the liquid if you cut the tip of the projectile flat, like a wadcutter.

Place the bottle's bottom towards you to give your bullet more distance-through-fluid to transfer energy into the carbonated water.

Bright red food dye to simulate the oxygenated blood of a lung shot. Hmm - maybe best leave that one till kids are older.

Originally Posted by Feral

When I was a kid I used to half fill em with water and pressurise the rest with a bike pump. Id then shoot em with an air rifle in the yard, much to the town's annoyance. One day one went to 120psi but it was a cheapie brand and it let go as I pumped it up. Nearly lost my thumb, frag wounds to left hand, heaps of stitches. The valve lodged itself in the shed roof.

Luckily I lived 200m from the medical centre in town so I wrapped my left hand in a teatowel and walked down. The did a good job with my thumb and dosed me up on pain killers. From there I had to get to school for my chemistry exam which went ok until about 45 minutes to go and the local wore off well and truly. Mammoth effort to keep my shit together for that exam but got through it.

Had a phobia of compressed air cylinders for about 20 years after that...



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I can still visualise the dent in the roof. I think the old man ripped us a new one after that. Stories of peeling a kid off a garage wall in the 70s after he tamped down some home made gunpowder too hard and the rod impaled him. Etc.

Surprised we made it through our teens really.

Originally Posted by MSL

Few chunks of dry ice and a bit of a shake makes them pop

We did this at school one time (our science teacher was good value) - it is amazing how big a 600ml coke bottle will stretch before it lets go ....we never found the bottle ( think it was on a roof somewhere)

Originally Posted by MSL

Few chunks of dry ice and a bit of a shake makes them pop

We did this at school one time (our science teacher was good value) - it is amazing how big a 600ml coke bottle will stretch before it lets go ....we never found the bottle ( think it was on a roof somewhere)

Originally Posted by Pineapple

We did this at school one time (our science teacher was good value) - it is amazing how big a 600ml coke bottle will stretch before it lets go ....we never found the bottle ( think it was on a roof somewhere)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv_e5hieLrU

you get the idea, I find it far too unpredictable to use safely, depending on the bottle it can get to 600+ psi.

regulated pressure from HPA such as scuba tanks on the other hand