Throwing bullets into a fire??

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[1967coronet]

What happened? I didn't play with fire much until after I was in my early 30's and after having fire training at the refinery. Go figure lol. Anyways, there's always a water hose close by and there's always something between me and the fire when doing stuff like this.

I probably had more death defying moments shortly after learning how to ride a bicycle! Always rode fast and too fast for the size of bike I had. It was a 24" but could barely reach the pedals with the seat all the way down. Dad just figured he would buy one bike and let me 'grow into it' and he figured right. By the time I got another bike, I was big enough for a 26" and it was one that I bought myself with money from mowing yards. And I always take precautions before doing the stunts I do especially when fire is involved. Read the reply above...

As a kid I wrecked a stingray style bike at 35mph going down a steep hill/street.
How did I know it was 35 ? I had a speedometer on it and was looking at it and scrubbed the curb.
Some bad azz road rash .
I just laid there for a little bit with my buddy asking if I was OK and telling me how cool the wreck was. Lol

 

[nitro_rat]

A buddy and I tossed a 1000 round case of steel case .762 rimmed surplus ammo in the fire 20 years ago. Not all at once, but a few at a time over the course of a winter. We didn't have a rifle to fire them out of and we found the case of shells in the barn...

We eventually ended up hammering a short piece of muffler pipe in the embers and using it like a mortar. They did bell the bottom end of the pipe just above ground level. Cutting the top out of a beer can and setting it over the top of the pipe would usually result in a sideways bullet hole in the bottom of the can. The bullets very rarely came out end ways. The round would barely lift the can off the pipe (maybe a few inches to a foot) and it would drop in the fire. We never saw any ill effects from doing this but we were young and stupid. The Lord looks after fools, drunks, and Irish. I guess we ticked all three boxes...

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Pull the bullet and dump out the powder, then throw the case into a fire. The primer will pop, and no one will get hurt.

Not a good idea. I have a scar on my arm from when I was 12 to prove it. A buddy of mine and I got into his dads relading stash and took gunpowder and primers. We made napalm jelly out of styrofoam and gasoline. We wrapped the jelly around the gun powder and primers and lit it. On. Fire and waited for it to go boom. A piece of shrapnel from the primers imbedded in my arm. Needless to say we found something else to do after that.

A buddy and I tossed a 1000 round case of steel case .762 rimmed surplus ammo in the fire 20 years ago

What a waste of 762

 

[nitro_rat]

What a waste of 762

I still don't have anything that will pop it...

 

[RR Fan Dan]

I still don't have anything that will pop it...

You’re talking about 7.62x39 right?

 

[nitro_rat]

You’re talking about 7.62x39 right?

7.62x54? Russian Rimmed. Maybe some old Mosin-Nagant and maybe an odd rebarreled Eastern Bloc Mauser can pop it. There's a plain old 7.62x54 that's very 30-06-ish, and then there's the Russian "rimmed" version. It has a rim around the end like a .22 shell...

 

[nitro_rat]

7.62×54mmR - Wikipedia

 

[nitro_rat]

The ones we wasted were steel core bullets in steel berdan primed cases...

Probably $50 worth in 2005!

 

[RR Fan Dan]

7.62×54mmR - Wikipedia

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Awshit. For those who have something that shoots 7.62x54, that ammo is hard to come by and expensive. Ask me how I know.

 

[Jerry Hall]

I don't know about bullets in a fire, not stupid enough to try it. I was taught to respect firearms at the early age of 7. Dad and I went squirrel hunting. Still hunting is hard for a 7 year old. Dad gave me his double barrel 12 gauge and whispered shoot the squirrel. Bad things happen when you pull both triggers at the same time. Squirrel is not worth taking home, and I'm knocked flat of my back, and Dad is worried about his 12 gauge.

 

[Skytrooper]

Not a good idea. I have a scar on my arm from when I was 12 to prove it. A buddy of mine and I got into his dads relading stash and took gunpowder and primers. We made napalm jelly out of styrofoam and gasoline. We wrapped the jelly around the gun powder and primers and lit it. On. Fire and waited for it to go boom. A piece of shrapnel from the primers imbedded in my arm. Needless to say we found something else to do after that.

What a waste of 762

What I spoke of, and your homemade explosive are two vastly different things. A primer in a cartridge, minus the bullet and powder, will not cause shrapnel. If it did than everytime a cartridge was fired the primer would blow apart, that doesn’t happen. Where as, just the primer itself wrapped in homemade explosive would produce the issue you had as a youth.

 

[padam]

I don't know about bullets in a fire, not stupid enough to try it. I was taught to respect firearms at the early age of 7. Dad and I went squirrel hunting. Still hunting is hard for a 7 year old. Dad gave me his double barrel 12 gauge and whispered shoot the squirrel. Bad things happen when you pull both triggers at the same time. Squirrel is not worth taking home, and I'm knocked flat of my back, and Dad is worried about his 12 gauge.

Key words:

“ I was taught to respect firearms“

 

[Cranky]

Not a good idea. I have a scar on my arm from when I was 12 to prove it. A buddy of mine and I got into his dads relading stash and took gunpowder and primers. We made napalm jelly out of styrofoam and gasoline. We wrapped the jelly around the gun powder and primers and lit it. On. Fire and waited for it to go boom. A piece of shrapnel from the primers imbedded in my arm. Needless to say we found something else to do after that.

You had a fire going to throw that concoction into or just lit the concoction and stood around? How close were you standing to this stuff? It's only been in the last 20 years that I've played with what I've been doing and always had something between me and the fire pit plus my pit is stainless steel. It's not real thick but stainless is pretty tough and.....had something big between me and it and 30'+ away from it. And imo, being 12 years old....well, I'm thinking being that young wasn't a good mix to be messing with something like that.....

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Darwin has a way of sorting this conversation out. Hey y’all watch this.

 

[Cranky]

Darwin has a way of sorting this conversation out. Hey y’all watch this.

Darwin has nothing to do with what I do! Maybe I'm more advanced than the 'darwin world' and never got hurt doing things that others thought was stooopid or against 'his principals'. Hard to believe I've never broken any bones but it's true. And there's no proof of human evolution but that's for another thread.