The Gun Counter

They're a lot of fun, if I do say so myself.
That was out on Mary's Peak, southwest of Corvallis, OR.

Fireball, from what?

Here's one by Tim Bradley:

Well, those two were small ones from the little Coleman propane bottles.

THIS isn't technically a fireball, but it is an explosion and a mushroom cloud caused by roughly 10 pounds of tannerite.

I was under the (mistaken?) impression that shooting a propane bottle without incendiary ammunition wouldn't produce an explosion/fireball/detonation. Right or wrong? With what ammo?

workinwifdakids wrote:I was under the (mistaken?) impression that shooting a propane bottle without incendiary ammunition wouldn't produce an explosion/fireball/detonation. Right or wrong? With what ammo?

all depends on fuel, air mix and source of ignition....

ive seen where people will light a torch near the propane bottles and then shoot them... once the air mixes in enough to get it near the flame, boom...

workinwifdakids wrote:I was under the (mistaken?) impression that shooting a propane bottle without incendiary ammunition wouldn't produce an explosion/fireball/detonation. Right or wrong? With what ammo?

Sorry, I should have mentioned that we had burning road flares right in front of the bottles as we shot them. The ammo was just plain 7.62x54R heavy ball.

Aegis wrote:

workinwifdakids wrote:I was under the (mistaken?) impression that shooting a propane bottle without incendiary ammunition wouldn't produce an explosion/fireball/detonation. Right or wrong? With what ammo?

Sorry, I should have mentioned that we had burning road flares right in front of the bottles as we shot them. The ammo was just plain 7.62x54R heavy ball.

Did the fireballs knock the road flares out?

Aegis wrote:Well, those two were small ones from the little Coleman propane bottles.

THIS isn't technically a fireball, but it is an explosion and a mushroom cloud caused by roughly 10 pounds of tannerite.

And this one is a video of 12 lbs of Tannerite vs. a Geo Metro.

308Mike wrote:Did the fireballs knock the road flares out?

One of them did. The other fireball just kinda went straight up, as you can see in the pic up there, so it didn't cause much of an issue with that flare.

We do this fairly regularly, and I'd say they knock out the flares about half the time.