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Post by osrb on Jun 8, 2009 21:14:29 GMT -5
In my back yard I have had a pile of stuff to burn (mostly brush) but have put some boxes and garbage in it. Well I finally decided to lite it up today. I was mowing the lawn so it was perfect time. Well about five minute after setting it on fire I was about 15 feet away mowing I heard a pop at first I was thinking I may have put a aerosol can in the garbage. Then I heard pop pop pop. It was then I realized OH SHIT it was ammo. I ran like a little girl behind my shed and waited for it to stop. After about 5 minutes after the last pop I came out from behind the shed. The only thing I could think was that some ammo was in one of the boxes or bags that I put in the pile. Teach me not to use wal-mart bags to put ammo in for the range.
I feel like a dumb shit for doing this but it was a wake up call for not being complacent on what I put in my burn pile.
No damage done except for my pride.
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Post by goomba on Jun 9, 2009 6:35:11 GMT -5
luckily for you, bullets dont travel without the chamber/barrel.
there is a school in west TN, Tactical response, that a good friend of mine went to.
they have a burn barrel that they put all the live 223 that they pick up off of the range. you know the live one that hit the dirt when you have a double feed, failure to extract and other drills etc etc. well they set that 55 gal steel drum on fire. the ammo all goes poppoppop....and there are no bullet holes in that barrel.
Im not saying its the proper way to do things, but it has to do with pressure, ballistics and the science of how a round is fired off.
you were perfectly safe,
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Post by BlackFox on Jun 9, 2009 8:06:39 GMT -5
Also known as Issac Newton's Third Law of Motion.
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Post by osrb on Jun 9, 2009 9:05:13 GMT -5
It was not the bullets per-se that I was worried about. It was the general shrapnel. Changes are that even if hit with some of the bits they would not cause injuries I just did not want to take a chance. I did see where some of the pieces hit over 20 feet away.
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Post by daworm on Jun 9, 2009 15:54:24 GMT -5
Since the mass of the casing was much less than that of the projectile, the casings were what escaped the pile (the two would move apart from each other at velocities that were the inverse of the ratio of the masses, so if the projectile were 20 times heavier than the casing, the casing would travel 20 times faster than the projectile, since the force involved was the same for each). Since the pressure wasn't contained in the barrel of a gun, the total velocity wasn't that much, but it still might have put an eye out or something.
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