Comments on: A Question http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:57:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Joe Huffman http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107#comment-130400 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:24:52 +0000 http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107#comment-130400 Pound for pound <a href="http://www.boomershoot.org/general/EG.htm" rel="nofollow">Boomerite</a> is not much different from what they used. So about 1000 pounds (which is less than what we typically use at <a href="http://www.boomershoot.org/" rel="nofollow">Boomershoot</a>). A single rifle bullet would detonate it just fine. If you are using a high BC bullet in a .300 Win Mag (or "better") 1000 yards distant would be possible. I get requests to blow up all kinds of things. I usually agree to help on one condition--they have to clean up the mess. I almost never hear from them again. This would be no different. The common perception appears to be that when something is "blown up" it just disappears. Of course this isn't true. Explosives can rip things into very tiny pieces and scatter them but chemical explosives do not destroy matter. Pound for pound Boomerite is not much different from what they used. So about 1000 pounds (which is less than what we typically use at Boomershoot). A single rifle bullet would detonate it just fine. If you are using a high BC bullet in a .300 Win Mag (or “better”) 1000 yards distant would be possible.

I get requests to blow up all kinds of things. I usually agree to help on one condition–they have to clean up the mess.

I almost never hear from them again. This would be no different. The common perception appears to be that when something is “blown up” it just disappears. Of course this isn’t true. Explosives can rip things into very tiny pieces and scatter them but chemical explosives do not destroy matter.

]]> by: Rivrdog http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107#comment-130394 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:48:16 +0000 http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107#comment-130394 Well, 20 cases of rock powder is hard to match in Boomerite, and you'd want to be far enough away that a .50BMG would be required to set it off. Not doable, IMHO. Start with a dead salmon and a couple ounces just for drill. Well, 20 cases of rock powder is hard to match in Boomerite, and you’d want to be far enough away that a .50BMG would be required to set it off.

Not doable, IMHO.

Start with a dead salmon and a couple ounces just for drill.

]]> by: Thor http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107#comment-130393 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:47:53 +0000 http://www.softgreenglow.com/wp/?p=5107#comment-130393 Now that's hillarious. When it first started, my first thought was "I know I haven't seen Paul Linnman in 15 years (since I moved from PDX) but he shouldn't be aging backwards" Funny stuff. Now that’s hillarious. When it first started, my first thought was “I know I haven’t seen Paul Linnman in 15 years (since I moved from PDX) but he shouldn’t be aging backwards”

Funny stuff.

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