Scarecrow
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saw that one. they've had at least a couple different exhibition shooting shows on there. they are great.
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saw that one. they've had at least a couple different exhibition shooting shows on there. they are great.
SpaceFrank
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I don't think flares burn quickly enough for the fire to spread out with the disintegrating pieces. Assuming that the shot would tear it up that badly in the first place.
But hell, if you have the flares lying around, try it and post pics!
But hell, if you have the flares lying around, try it and post pics!
The actual material inside the flare needs an ignitor of over 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The stuff you are sparking on top of it is actually a magnesium composition, if I'm not mistaken. Magnesium burns hot enough to melt steel.
My scientific guess is that it won't do a damned thing, other than blow part in the middle (presuming thats where it gets hit), with the remaining burning powder fizzling out once burned. Fired bullets are hot, but not THAT hot!
My scientific guess is that it won't do a damned thing, other than blow part in the middle (presuming thats where it gets hit), with the remaining burning powder fizzling out once burned. Fired bullets are hot, but not THAT hot!
Injuneer
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Re: Flare
A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. Flares are used for signaling, illumination, or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications. Flares may be ground pyrotechnics, projectile pyrotechnics, or parachute-suspended to provide maximum illumination time over a large area. Projectile pyrotechnics may be dropped from aircraft, fired from rocket or artillery, or deployed by flare guns or handheld percussive tubes.
Flares produce their light through the combustion of a pyrotechnic composition. The ingredients are varied, but often based on strontium nitrate, potassium nitrate, or potassium perchlorate and mixed with a fuel such as charcoal, sulfur, sawdust, aluminium, magnesium, or a suitable polymeric resin.[1] Flares may be colored by the inclusion of pyrotechnic colorants. Calcium flares are used underwater to illuminate submerged objects.
Hope this helps!
I'd Still have more fun with a Phosforous / magnesium 12 ga shell. Their awesome when it's pitch black out at night.
Keep the kids, dogs and grandma away.
A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. Flares are used for signaling, illumination, or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications. Flares may be ground pyrotechnics, projectile pyrotechnics, or parachute-suspended to provide maximum illumination time over a large area. Projectile pyrotechnics may be dropped from aircraft, fired from rocket or artillery, or deployed by flare guns or handheld percussive tubes.
Flares produce their light through the combustion of a pyrotechnic composition. The ingredients are varied, but often based on strontium nitrate, potassium nitrate, or potassium perchlorate and mixed with a fuel such as charcoal, sulfur, sawdust, aluminium, magnesium, or a suitable polymeric resin.[1] Flares may be colored by the inclusion of pyrotechnic colorants. Calcium flares are used underwater to illuminate submerged objects.
Hope this helps!
I'd Still have more fun with a Phosforous / magnesium 12 ga shell. Their awesome when it's pitch black out at night.
Keep the kids, dogs and grandma away.
GottaBeAh.40
Crazy old Bird
I'm thinking nothing will happen except the flare would be dead.:fie:
Oh, man, looks like we have a contender for the title of Mr. Congeniality, which I currently hold. I like your style, KingsCSI, maybe because it resembles mine so much. :yu: Terse style, well-written, acerbic yet witty, gets the point across...well done!
:laugh: So...did you make the old lady clean up the mess?? What, you had nothing to do all weekend in, where do you live again, oh yeah...HAWAII... so you decided to shoot up a few flares? :biggrin:
Actually I used the OP as an example of some of the questions I get as a firearms instructor. I taught a NRA Basic Pistol Class and we had time to do "fun stuff" on the range after the class was over. Some of the students wanted to hang around and see what happens when we shoot various things using various firearms. We shot up a few fruits, soda cans, expired canned goods, a plastic gas can and the road flares. BTW, my buddy shot up a flare with his M4 and we couldn't set it off. We got the students to clean up the mess and hauled it off to the dumpster. :biggrin:
Needless to say, it was a lot of fun.
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Scarecrow
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that's awesome... btw, shooting a pumpkin or watermelon with a high power rifle is also something to write home about
Wolfling68
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Next time you need to use tracers!!! Or better yet, WP And, in honor of Thanksgiving, they need to be inside a turkey!!!!
And, in honor of Thanksgiving, they need to be inside a turkey!!!!Next time you need to use tracers!!! Or better yet, WP
Tracers would have been fun, but not legal here in PRHI.
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