When I was a kid my Dad and I used to plink at these Bullz I exploding targets. Then way back when our range banned them. I can’t remember now if it was the range itself or the state. Anyway, seeing these brings back fond memories of shooing in sandpits and the range with my Dad.
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Remember shooting these?
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Those things were great fun and as such I think they were banned.
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They've got to be still available somewhere. I mean, they allow tannerite. So these .22 targets should still be available. I had some. great fun.
Edit: replaced by mix your own Tannerite for made for .22 rim fire.
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View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhN13kBzVOA
Edit: replaced by mix your own Tannerite for made for .22 rim fire.
White Lightning™ Rim-fire Target – 15 Shots – Tannerite®
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View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RhN13kBzVOA
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greencobra
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i remember shooting them, of course. pretty good for several minutes of amusement...then the fun gods decreed "enough"
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Banned? Really? Hypothetically, what would one do if they still had 3-4 of them? Lol
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I knew I still had some. They were from 93 or 94. Three full boxes and one single, plus some old shotgun shells in the can. forgot all about them. I love the shotgun shell box. "New Plastic" Ammo can has a good seal so things have kept good for all the past years gone by. Thinking about it they may have been from 89 or 90.
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Was hoping for a Gyrojet thread.
A buddy that worked for the Rail Road said they used these to put on tracks about a mile or up from where they were working. Train would run one over and BOOM they knew a train ( along with schedule and radios of course ) when the train was inbound.
Back in the late 80's I split a lot of small tree's with them.
Back in the late 80's I split a lot of small tree's with them.
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Are you referring to the railroad torpedos with the lead straps tha bent around the rail? 3 about 1 yard apart each is, I think, a "stop signal" foro the train.
How did you get them to detonate on the trees? I have heard that small arms fire tends to break them up but not get them to go bang.
No he said the red target pictured above, they would peel back the sticker and stick it to the track was a good warning.
We would find small 4-6" round pine and blow the crap out of them with our .22's, had to tape them to the tree with duct tape. They said .22 wont set them off but most of them would go off. We would get them up at the Portsmouth gun show, never found them in Mass only NH.
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Dang, I thought maybe you had scored some torpedos
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I might have to dig a little deeper into the box for one of those. There MAY be one or two.
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Gun Culture’s Dazzling, Dangerous Firework Display
Exploding targets cause spectacular blasts and horrifying accidents. Can anyone regulate them?
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"But Bullz-I met its demise in the early 2000s. In 2001, a man in a military supply shop in Newport, Ohio accidentally dry fired his gun into a shelf stocked with the targets, triggering an explosion that injured four and nearly leveled the building. John Dapkus stopped selling his Bullz-I Targets two years later. "
"Accidentally dry fired"?????
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I believe, will have to dig the WABAC machine, because they came pre-mixed making them an explosive.
The newer brands have to be mixed and used. They can not be transported.
The newer brands have to be mixed and used. They can not be transported.
Mesatchornug
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appropriately relocate them to a place that allows the use of exploding targets, then dispose of them per the manufacturer's recommendation?
deerdad
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Whatever you want. Keep them, use them, do what you want. They're your property that you paid for.
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That sounds like a stereo typical "paranoid gun owner" type question.
I'd not worry at all, and use them as I saw fit when I felt like it.
Its not like the moment you found some, the ATF and FBI have immediately been notified?
RC
