Reactive targets - keeping it fun for the kids

My 6 yr old daughter is getting pretty keen on her shooting with her 22lr youth rifle.

So to keep it fun for her I've just finished making some reactive/exploding targets.

I can get 50psi in them fairly easy, I've added a couple of spoons of flour to hopefully add good visual effect.

I'm going to give them a test tomorrow, and am quite looking forward to it [emoji6]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...b717bdea4e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d9f9545f83.jpg

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Please film :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Nibblet

Please film :thumbsup:

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+1 :thumbsup: :cool:

They take 150 psi ;)

Many years ago as a tire fitter I found that the generic plastic coke bottle could stand 130psi(as much as we had) even when strips were ground on its sides to help failure.

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Originally Posted by Tommy

They take 150 psi ;)

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Jesus, bags you pump them up for me....eeeekk

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Originally Posted by Nibblet

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Yep will film in slow mo

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Originally Posted by Tommy

They take 150 psi ;)

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Snuck in while I was typing.

On a pressure lead, in a wheelie bin. 150 was all we could give them. Tongs and then a heat gun to cause a rupture, was good fun

@Feral has a good story of what happens when a pressurised Coke bottle lets go. ;)

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Originally Posted by stretch

@Feral has a good story of what happens when a pressurised Coke bottle lets go. ;)

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I need to hear this @Feral ;-)

mate told try water balloons just with air. recons his kids enjoyed it more then just shooting paper

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Originally Posted by bigbear

mate told try water balloons just with air. recons his kids enjoyed it more then just shooting paper

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Yep we've done the balloon thing, with water and air. All good fun, we are just upping the anti [emoji6]

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I need to hear this @Feral ;-)

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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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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.

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Originally Posted by Tommy

They take 150 psi ;)

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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:thumbsup::D

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

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.

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Originally Posted by septic

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

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should be there by 10am :thumbsup:

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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

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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)

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Originally Posted by MSL

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

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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)

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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)

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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:XD:

mix iodine crystals into concentrated ammonia till no more crystals can be absorbed (saturated solution) while its still in its wet state go paint it on your targets and place your targets before it dries out.
the stuff is so sensitive when dry a blowfly landing on it will set it off.

Yep seemed like good fun at the time. After that one we did another and put a rubbish bin over the top of it (cut steel drum). The only damage was to our hearing and a dent in the rubbish bin and the fun stopped before anyone got hurt. Now that I am older and wiser........ ish I can see it may not have been the smartest idea.

Here's the little vid of the testing this morning, gave them 40 pumps with the little bike pump, about 60-70 psi (could probably go a bit higher but chickened out after reading the exploding bottle stories on this thread) The sound of the bottle exploding was much louder than the suppressed 22 with subs.

https://youtu.be/GdrHM_l-eDI

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Originally Posted by berg243

a bit like making a bolt bomb and throwing into a disused cow shed after seeing the shrapnel damage deciding not such a good idea.

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@berg243

Yep, I still remember vividly how the nut got uncurled, looked like a spring washer. No eye protection. And like you I didn't repeat that experiment.

Would have been safer to have dad take us through the experiments in a safe way rather than do them ourselves. But the secrecy was really half the fun.

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Originally Posted by gonetropo

mix iodine crystals into concentrated ammonia till no more crystals can be absorbed (saturated solution) while its still in its wet state go paint it on your targets and place your targets before it dries out.
the stuff is so sensitive when dry a blowfly landing on it will set it off.

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And when it blows up early any wounds are sterilized by the iodine.

In my teens we would fill up 4 litre spray or oil bottles with oxy/acyt and fire 22 tracers through them. The first time we were standing a bit close (prob 25m) and it knocked both me and my brother on our arses. Learnt after that to stand back a bit further and to take them further up the farm away from the house sos not to freak out mum.

Actually I take that back. It was when we jumped from the 4 litre bottle to the 20 litre drench canister that we got sat on our arses. Didn't really think about the 5x increase in explosive energy.

If it's for kids try Bunch o Balloons. They're like $10-$15 for 100 balloons, it hooks up to a hose and you fill all 100 and automatically ties themselves of in under a minute.

if you want to play with oxy/acet make sure your well grounded/earthed as well as remember that the mixture can detonate at atmospheric pressure if confined.