Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Shooting the lock off a strong box.

Now l know how some of those trees made it into orbit! LOL

Scott...misspent youth huh. Bet your graduates thank you to this day. ;-)

I was on a road building project back in the day.

Powder man was a real old timer and deafer n a post.

Engineer told him to load the holes 3 feet from the bottom...
He hard 3 feet from the top!

They was deep holes.

Lordy when that bunch went off we got a helluva a surprise!
Huge rock pelting down all around us.

I turtled and speed prayed. Not a scratch! There was rocks as big as basketballs and larger all round us.

Fair bit of damage to equipment etc., but luckily no one injured.

Had to close the main hwy and it took hours to clear all the shot rock off to open it again.

Pretty deaf bunch for the next few days..lol.

Damn good to be lucky sometimes.

I seem to remeber Weatherby doing a commercial where they shot (and shattered) a master lock hanging on nail in front of a target.

The one I remember was for Master; it showed the strike in slow motion, and then showed the padlock with a hole through the center, but still locked. I always wondered what the result would have been if the shot hadn't been dead center, but had hit one of the arms instead.

Oxygen tanks do not explode either.

I shot a 255 grain hard cast +P 45 ACP round through 9 one gallon milk jugs filled with water.
A friend has shot locks of with a 44 mag full power 240 grain loads. I don't advise doing this up close. Two end wrenches stuck into the hasp of the lock and pulled apart pops master locks apart unbelievably easy.

Some Darwin Award nominees here no doubt. I knew of some youths back in the days of more relaxed attitudes toward things that went boom in public areas who could have been too. I happen to remember what they called "center fuses" which were a large, water proof, fire cracker, allegedly about 1/8 a stick.

This, as I remembered involved about three youts, one driving the boat, two in back lighting the ordinance and tossing them overboard in varying areas in the prop wash, while the third, laughing heartily at this merry-making, dodged the booming water spouts as he skied the gauntlet.

y'all need to watch more TV. Everything explodes there when hit by a bullet. miles

I shot a master lock padlock off a gate with a .30-30 when somebody came by and stuffed a bunch of tooth picks into it. Only took one shot from about 30 feet away.

I musta lived a sheltered life, as I've had minimal exposure to such exercises.

I did shoot a golf ball once with a .22-250. It just simply vanished. It was on a large patch of bare ground, but no pieces found, anywhere.

There was also the time some chap left some 1/4" thick steel targets downrange. I tested them for him, and confirmed that even with varmint bullets a .22-250 will shoot through 1/4" of steel. Also interesting was a nearby paper target had many gray streaks on it. I finally realized the bullet core had melted, and splattered molten lead all around. It would have been damned unpleasant to be standing there.

My dad knew a guy who was fired from the sheriffs department for breaking into parking meters and stealing the coins.

In movies yes, just not in real life.

Spoil sport

A 22-250 with varmint bullets will penetrate through 3/8"" A-36 steel plate at 50 yards like Swiss cheese.

Well, chit. Pardon my confusing an earth rattling boom, flying fragments, and a 20 foot fireball for an explosion.

Sierria 130gr hp's made for 30-30 but shot out of a 308 will not penetrate 3/4" steel plate. They do make a 1/2" deep hole and a huge bump on the back. Glad I was 100 yards away.

If oxygen could acctualy do that then the atmosphere around you would have done the same. Oxygen is not explosive nor is it flammable oxygen supports combustion only if a fuel source is available. Simple science dude.

The Master Lock I had to punch at 25 yards with my Marlin 1894 44 mag didn't act like that. It opened rather nicely.

(It was a back gate going into Natl. Forest, and there was a fire back there, the fire fighters needed in, and I would rather shoot the lock than have them bulldoze my fence.)

I've found with det cord, it's usually a waste of time. Takes too many wraps and too much time. Gets one of the squad dizzy running around in circles, too. Much easier to tape a charge together and tape it where it needs to be, then run the det cord to the main. The army saved a lot of time and math when they went to the new initiators. I'm enough of an antique to have had to test burn time fuse.it's been too long since I've blown something up.