Zmann.
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Explosions in the woods
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JPRambo
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Pour a little (1/2 ounce) of muratic acid in a plastic coke bottle. Put in a strip of aluminum foil, quickly cap the bottle and throw it far away. BOOM.
MossRoad
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And then it doesn't go off for 20-30-40 minutes. No way to tell. So you walk over and pick it up. 30 seconds later it goes BOOM because you agitated it. Now your fingers are lacerated and you have acid on them, too. Good times. Good times.
the old grind
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I have a setup with a stand, a Schrader valve, and a brass adapter to take any carbonated soda bottle with std cap. Once aired up to 100-120 lbs you can pop the bottle with a pellet gun. At 20> yds it's pertty loud with a 2-Liter bottle and easy for kids to hit.
Gets 'em interested in shooting real quick and few pester do the bangs again. Once they see they can hit something at all they look for tougher targets. Even 1/2 L bottles are fun. The kit inlcuded a mesh bag to contain a bottle that bursts when being filled.
Gets 'em interested in shooting real quick and few pester do the bangs again. Once they see they can hit something at all they look for tougher targets. Even 1/2 L bottles are fun. The kit inlcuded a mesh bag to contain a bottle that bursts when being filled.
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stuckmotor
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We started hearing sonic booms in the fifties or sixties and didn't know what they were. Haven't heard one to know it in decades. The AIr Force base closing down might have something to do with it.
2LaneCruzer
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They (the Air Force/government) ran experiments here, (Tinker AFB) in the 1950's to determine the effect of the sonic booms on the civilian population. It was, for the most part, pretty devastating. I was working in a grocery store at the time, and one rather forceful boom shattered the plate glass window in the store. There was also considerable structural damage to homes and businesses, so they outlawed...so to speak...any further sonic booms. Haven't heard one in many, many years.
skipmarcy
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I'm about 15 miles from a TVA coal-fired steam plant and when they restart after a shutdown they obviously do something with some sort of pop-off valves or something with the steam system and it sounds like artillery. When we first moved here 15 years ago we thought it WAS artillery from Ft. Campbell about 40 miles away but no, it's the steam plant.
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stuckmotor
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The closing of Donaldson Air Force Base near Greenville, SC must have been coincidental to the end of the booms.. It was home of a troop carrier wing and I doubt it housed planes that could even make sonic booms.
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2LaneCruzer
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Naw. Tinker Field is still open and going strong. IIRC, it's the largest employer in the state, except maybe for the state itself.
Dftodd
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Most likely around here it's rednecks and large guns. The occasional over zealous application of gasoline to a burn pile. With questionable material added to said burn pile.
Plus a DOT owned quarry up the street that actually does use explosives on occasion. Thankfully that quarry is only open when they are doing road and culvert maintenance close by.