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bilgerat57 wrote:

PappaGun wrote:I'm surprised no one has mentioned propane bottles.

The fun had is proportional to the size chosen.

Much as I hate to say it, I have some serious reservations on this one. I'm not criticizing or condemming mind you, it's just that the possibilities of unintended damage are a bit high for me.....

I hear ya.

Best done in a sandy desert with a rifle and a good scope.

PappaGun wrote:

bilgerat57 wrote:

PappaGun wrote:I'm surprised no one has mentioned propane bottles.

The fun had is proportional to the size chosen.

Much as I hate to say it, I have some serious reservations on this one. I'm not criticizing or condemming mind you, it's just that the possibilities of unintended damage are a bit high for me.....

I hear ya.

Best done in a sandy desert with a rifle and a good scope.

I would not worry about where you are shooting them.....

MythBusters wrote:A person can shoot a propane tank and make it explode.

busted

First, the Build Team decided to test whether it was possible to breach a propane tank with Bond’s 9mm handgun. They found that 9mm rounds were not powerful enough to breach the tank, but shotgun shells and .30 caliber rifle rounds were more than enough to pierce the tank. They then fired armor piercing rifle rounds at a tank filled with propane, but could not get the tank to explode. Not even tracer rounds were successful. Finally, the Build Team resorted to extreme measures. They found that the only sure way to make a propane tank explode was to use high explosive or a high powered Gatling gun firing incendiary rounds. The Build Team concluded that Bond (and most people) would not normally have access to such weaponry, busting the myth.
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yeah, unless you have a tracer round, it won't explode...unless you light a fire beside it.

It depends on what you're shooting it with for sure.

It also helps if you fire multiple rounds and not single shots.

Here's the best propane shoot EVER as the kids would say.



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I remember being told that propane bottles won't explode when shot, but one thing I have learned over my 54 years.......Absolutely nothing is Sailor proof!
On the serious side, I get antsy just thinking about the possibilty of creating an unintended fuel-air-explosive mix. I work on petrochemical barges and have a healthy allergy to uncontrolled explosive vapors.
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This video is of a gas barge which exploded at an oil terminal in New York, killing two men. The vapors in an empty tank were ignited by an engine problem.

The wife and I have taken up plinking occasionally from the back porch with a cheap bb gun......a bag of fritos scoops provides a fair number of targets. We tied some string to some clothes pins and hung them in the trees....the squirrels love to clean up for us..... (I do love living in the country!)

Daughter and I filled bottles with water and different colors of food coloring tonight for the range on Saturday after my IDPA match. Taking her M&P15-22, my Colt, and maybe shoot some with my Glock.

4 one gallon jugs
14 two liter bottles
36 twenty ounce bottles

We plan on taking the camera and zooming in on the bottles to catch the explosions, hopefully!