Cheap and Legal "Exploding" Targets!

[chm270]

I recently bought one of those portable tire inflators, and it reminded me of an old idea I had.
I take a 1/2" hole punch and punch holes in one gallon milk jugs. Then, I take a tire valve stem, (bought on Ebay for real cheap by the 100) and push it through the hole.
Then, I seal the inside of the stem to the cap with a little hot melt glue.
So now, screw on the cap good and tight, start up the inflator, and voila! Hard as a rock!!
The beauty of this is, that the caps can be used over and over again.
You can also do this with water bottles or any other plastic bottle.
They actually sell similar things for one liter soda bottles on Amazon too. They are LOUD!

 

[Hvymax]

Yeah a 2 liter at 90psi is pretty impressive with a BB gun.

 

[Dan in MI]

I shot an awful lot of cheap and legal exploding targets in the 80's. It's probably my fault the ozone layer is gone.

I like the idea a lot. I made a 2 litre "grenade launcher" with .410 blanks so we could shoot the bottles with our bows as they imitated pheasants.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I recently bought one of those portable tire inflators, and it reminded me of an old idea I had.
I take a 1/2" hole punch and punch holes in one gallon milk jugs. Then, I take a tire valve stem, (bought on Ebay for real cheap by the 100) and push it through the hole.
Then, I seal the inside of the stem to the cap with a little hot melt glue.
So now, screw on the cap good and tight, start up the inflator, and voila! Hard as a rock!!
The beauty of this is, that the caps can be used over and over again.
You can also do this with water bottles or any other plastic bottle.
They actually sell similar things for one liter soda bottles on Amazon too. They are LOUD!

Are you punching a hole in the bottle or in the cap?

 

[Ride1949]

I would say it's the cap.

Then, I seal the inside of the stem to the cap with a little hot melt glue.

 

[gnappi]

A soda can broken in half with the bottom half stuffed over the top half with a firecracker in the drink hole and lit will launch the bottom half of the can really high!

 

[eveled]

My friend had the cops show up at his house because he liked to sit on his porch drinking beer from those tall cans with the screw top. Sort of an aluminum bottle.

He would put the cap back on and toss them into the fire pit and they would explode loudly.

I thought I was living on the edge by throwing pop corn kernels in the fire. Lol.

 

[41Dude]

Out here in southwest Idaho we call exploding targets gophers.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I would say it's the cap.

I suspect so, but it never hurts to confirm things.

 

[the_leper_colony]

That sounds pretty "high tech" to a guy who's used to shooting unopened soda cans, potatoes, & charcoal briquettes!

 

[chm270]

Are you punching a hole in the bottle or in the cap?

Sorry.. the cap, yes.

 

[mexicanjoe911]

Note to my friends on RF: DO NOT pour sour smelling gunpowder mixed with powder sugar in to a gopher hole. RESIST the temptation to run a string of powder out to the porch and light it. IT DOES NOT END WELL!!! The sheriff department came by later to ask about a possible pipeline blowout.............. He asked what I was doing digging a large in the front yard. I replied MRS JOE wanted a wading pool for the kids. He bought my answer and went on .

 

[Randyzzz]

I'll condense this story… many years back I worked for FedMart. Similar to Kroger now. A pallet of canned Coors was put in the freezer, and then forgotten in the sun on the loading dock in a failed attempt to thaw. My buddy and I grabbed as many cases as would fit in the back of my Bronco. The rest went in the dumpster. We bought a bunch of shotgun shells and headed out to the desert. Nothing like skeet shooting Coors. Those cans exploded! We were lucky we didn't get pulled over on the way home- we smelled like rotten beer and the back of the Bronco was full of inside-out beer cans.

Good times.

 

[Lt92]

My friend had the cops show up at his house because he liked to sit on his porch drinking beer from those tall cans with the screw top. Sort of an aluminum bottle.

He would put the cap back on and toss them into the fire pit and they would explode loudly.

I thought I was living on the edge by throwing pop corn kernels in the fire. Lol.

Back in the day...on the police range...we would "initiate" new instructors by tossing a handful of 22 rimfire in the burn-barrel where we would gather to warm up...one some dumba@# did it to the newly elected Sheriff...that was the end of a fine tradition

 

[peachhead]

Yeah, don't throw old batteries in the fire pit either...

 

[blume357]

spray can of WD-40 will get you a month or two in the burn unit. That's what it cost the son of a friend of mine.

 

[Mobuck]

After just three hours in the 'burn unit', I can't imagine how bad one would be burned to spend a month.