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How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:52 pm
by 1066
Just thought you might be interested in this short video of how I make simple exploding targets with easily obtainable material - Adds a bit of fun to a plinking session, my grandsons love them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-uCl0jrG4
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 9:55 pm
by bigfathairybiker
Errr... what has Solar Tracking got to do with exploding targets?
Mark
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:03 pm
by 25Pdr
bigfathairybiker wrote:Errr... what has Solar Tracking got to do with exploding targets?
Mark
Errrr! I think he meant these exploding targets....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6joOVjEemh4
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:34 pm
by 1066
bigfathairybiker wrote:Errr... what has Solar Tracking got to do with exploding targets?
Mark
Opps! Getting my hobbies mixed up there :lol:
Try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA3NxKrETpE
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 10:35 pm
by 1066
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:46 am
by Blackstuff
The fun you can have with match heads! I remember filling tennis balls with 100's of the things in my misspent youth and having great fun with those!
Quite like the idea of making some larger ones of these, maybe in the bottle of a softdrink can and using them as the stop plate for PSG
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 3:33 pm
by 1066
Blackstuff wrote:The fun you can have with match heads! I remember filling tennis balls with 100's of the things in my misspent youth and having great fun with those!
Quite like the idea of making some larger ones of these, maybe in the bottle of a softdrink can and using them as the stop plate for PSG
The next step up might be the little aluminium dishes for nightlights. Much bigger and you start getting into a lot of matches. Of course you can always buy the real thing.
http://www.firebirdtargets.co.uk/
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 11:29 am
by Blackstuff
Too expensive to waste on the plebs i shoot with
Plus you get told off when you just BUY something, it has to be a bodge job or nothing! :roll: :lol:
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:01 pm
by mag41uk
In theory,would black powder explode if hit with a boolit?
Tony
Re: How to make simple reactive exploding targets
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 2:49 pm
by 1066
mag41uk wrote:In theory,would black powder explode if hit with a boolit?
Tony
Not really unless the impact was to cause a spark or raise the temperature to a critical level. If black powder was to ignite with a good wack old Rev Forsyth wouldn't have gone to the bother of inventing the percussion cap in around 1810.
Only in the film do spark fly off lead bullets. :)
Here's an interesting twist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaKJdcU0W48
