A house, several miles from me exploded yesterday.
Blew the side out, part of roof off. Man and woman injured.
The woman released from hospital, man still in with serious injuries.
Today , the news reported it happened while someone was reloading ammo.
I am trying to think of how it might have happened.

Ideas?

Black powder?

Primers in a bulk configuration?

Gas leak and explosion while coincidentally reloading ammo?

Propane could very easily be the cause.

the narrative.
it is what the news told you....

haven't you learned anything this year?

Gas explosion was my first thought, but it was not mentioned.
There was no fire.

They said he had 6 lbs of powder nearby, but didn't say it all exploded.

I’m gonna call Bullschitt. It would have had to be Black Powder. Maybe if he would have been smoking while reloading with Black Powder.

Like I said, sounds like Bullschitt to me.

Most likely.

I'd guess it was an accident....just my humble opinion.

A keg of powder or more likely a gas leak. Could have been casting bullets. That might be considered "reloading"?

Black powder?

Smokeless would have to be contained in something pretty stout to go off. Burn like hell but not explode.

Maybe just lying to cover up the meth lab.

Someone was making edibles...

How many licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop? About as many guesses here lol

Yep.

The "reloading" angle is bullshit.

I’ll take math lab for $1000, Alex.

Math ain’t difficult enough to blow your house up over.

Testing hand loads for a 155mm?? Too much Bullseye in the mix?

I don't believe it for a minute!!!!

12 Mile Indiana?

Anyone who reloads knows that smokeless, black powder, and black powder substitutes are pkged in soft containers. This is to prevent massive explosions, such as the OP described.

Nah, the word police will be along shortly to say that it was a "negligent" instead of an accident.

There’s no way it was a guy reloading, sounds like a meth house to me. Only other possibility in my mind is a gas leak or someone making some home made explosives involving powder.

It happened while reloading. OK, now did the reloading cause it? Probably not. Like dying with covid is not the same as dying from covid unless the news media is trying to make a point. Probably gas ignited. I don't doubt the powder went off coincidental to the explosion.

my guess.

been at least two major gas leak related explosions in AZ in last 3 months.

Gas most probably.

This?

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/...n-seffner-explodes-sending-2-to-hospital

Find out what kind of powder did that. The military could use that instead of nuclear.

SIX pounds?…..uh oh 😮

Was Hunter Biden there?

The Vax Is Safe

There's more to this story....

In my years with the utility company we had some houses explode. They were much less concentrated in locale....but would suck the neighboring homes off the foundation in a big one.

It appears there's some b vent in the area and if it were propane... god only knows how big the pond may have been.

Probly had an “arsenal” in there too. laffin’. And lost all 3 shotguns in the explosion.

When I wa much younger there was a woman down street on some sort of O2 mask or machine. Yep, lit one up they said.
My brother had a FIL whose sister lived in his lake cabin. Turned on all propane burners and filled up house. Set a newspaper on fire. Boom! She lived another 6 years in a nursing home.

Those lucky neighboring homes.

I ALWAYS miss out!

You hear about these kinds of things every so often. A similar incident happened just south of Burley Idaho a few years ago and nearly lifted the brick house off of the foundation.

Even if powder was normally contained in something harder than plastic bottles that could cause a lot of pressure to build before exploding, why doesn't it ever happen at sporting goods stores or the factories where there's routinely hundreds of pounds of powder stored?

More to the story, as usual.

I have over 100 pounds of powder and many 1000s of primers in the house.

Some time ago, I’m guessing close to 20 years, the house of a local bench rest competitor caught fire. Several 8 lb kegs, obviously, and a commensurate quantity of primers. Other than burning rather vigorously, nothing spectacular happened.

That would be the expected result.

There’s obviously more to this “story”.

Yep black powder will explode but smokeless will not.

Unless contained in a metal container.

Hard to believe that 6 lbs of smokeless did that to that house.

Wonder what the rest of the story is.

Will it ever come out.

Some anti gunner news ahole kamalad his pants when he got the idea of spinning a normal gas leak into an anti gun person narrative

Six pounds of powder wouldn't blow up a house. You need flammable gas to do that. Around here we have a couple of houses blow up every year from people extracting the active ingredients from marijuana. They use butane for the extraction and apparently aren't all that good at containing it.

Or it could be a garden variety gas leak.

This has nothing to do with making ammunition. Pay attention!

LoL, do you hear the helicopters yet?

Where I live that sounds like cooking Meth.

Funny you folks connect with six pounds of a propellant.

It could have just as easily happened while an occupant was eating mashed potatoes. Reloading might have been the ignition, but likely something else actually exploded.

Never let facts fuque up the narrative.

BS. Smokeless is a flammable, not an explosive.

Six pounds of Bullseye contained in a hunk of four inch Schedule 80 steel pipe with a cannon fuse hanging out the end.........maybe????????

Or just an old fashioned cast steel pressure canner????????

Pictures are interesting.
The angles are changed, that's to be expected.
But why show them taken at different times?

There is a hole in the house in the first one.
The second has the entire back of the house missing with
no roof pieces that would show if it simply collapsed.
No equipment in the shot that explain demo in progress.

Looking again, it does look like it collapsed.

Waterheater?

Likely culprit, or vaporized gasoline. When I was a city firefighter back in the 70s we were told that 1 gallon of gasoline could explode a medium size house. Most likely propane or NG in this case. I have serious doubts gun powder caused this.

Though I have wondered what would be the result of a thief using a grinder or torch to open a gun safe in which powder was stored. Any explosives experts have an idea?

Pizza Hut roofing shingles

Could be the beginning of a media campaign designed to get the public behind a "ban reloading" campaign. For the chilruns, ya see.

Since smokeless powder doesn't 'splode when in its original shipping and storage containers or outside a pressure vessel, I muh gonna call horseschitt on this one.

Marijuana folks use butane to process thc.
Butane then has to be cooked off of the concentrate.
Several houses have lifted off foundations and disassembled in the last few years.
Much more common than reloading explosions.

Wouldn’t surprise me. I’m still betting Meth lab.

PREZACTLY !!!

This can go on for 10 pages, but unless the guy was loading black powder cartridges & was drawing from a 20 or 30 pound container of powder, SOMETHING ELSE WAS THE CAUSE, as has been mentioned.

In 2010 in Stanford Ky. a black powder explosion took the life of one & injured 2. It destroyed a dethatched garage, damaged the residence & a neighboring house.

It was no secret, the guy was a dealer. A good friend bought from him. He had 80 pound kegs of black available & he broke them down for resale. He & a helper were repackaging when a salamander heater that was near ignited unexpectedly. BOOM.

Not known how much powder let go, but likely 80 pounds or less. A disintegrated 2 car garage & damage to the rear corners of 2 houses. The event is easy to look up.

The damage of the home in the current event?.............. extensive to say the least. Usual local news know nothing & reporting BS.