Guns and Explosives
I am a kid at heart – so when I watched Wreckreation Nation on the Discovery Channel and saw people shooting everyday objects with high-powered rifles and making them explode, the years peeled away. Of course I didn’t have a wife when I was a kid but she didn’t seem surprised when I told her that I had found a new hobby once we move. She didn’t even seem to mind.
I am not the only one who has been bitten by this unique bug. YouTube is full of videos of people blowing up stuff with guns. For example here’s a guy who blew up his Macintosh. It reminds me of this scene from Office Space.
Source: Josh Smith
Just imagine what those boys could have done with a few pounds of tannerite and an AK-47. BTW this movie has gradually become one of my all-time favorites, and this scene in particular stands out. I’ve been using PCs for 20 years and I still run into printer problems. My current fave at the office: people who send legal jobs to printers that don’t have legal loaded – and the printer is too dumb to skip those jobs and allow letter-sized jobs pass. That raw hatred they have for their printer? Yeah, I feel it. But I digress.
There are several cool things about the explosive (tannerite) used in the hobby of explosive target shooting.First, the explosive used is completely legal. I’m simply too old to do dumb illegal stuff anymore. I’ll leave that to the Kid. Second the explosive is a mixture of two common inert ingredients that once mixed must be hit by a high velocity round traveling at least 2,000 fps. You can even bang the stuff with a hammer or light it on fire and it won’t explode. That’s a plus because I like being old and would prefer to get even older. I’m way too fat and old to have lived fast, died young and left a good looking corpse. Third the stuff is cheap. Target shooting is already expensive enough so the last thing I need is to make it even more expensive. Finally it gives me an excuse to get an assault rifle. I like the looks of the AK, but I like the feel of the AR-15 much better.
Rocky:
Hey, nice article. I’m the guy who was interviewed and setup most of the explosives.
That wasn’t actually tannerite we used on the show. We made that ourselves based on the recipe in our “Exploding Targets Manual”.
You can see more about it on our site at http//restrictedknowledge.com.
Take care!
8 March 2009, 12:09 amScott Kirwin:
Rocky
8 March 2009, 7:34 pmThat episode was a blast. The only thing they failed to do was show the clean up. I heard mention of that but no footage. The Wife wouldn’t be happy if I didn’t clean up afterwards…
Rocky:
Hey Scott, we absolutely cleaned up afterwards!
There were 15 of us with big boxes, huge trash bags and even rakes getting every last bit up that we could. It cost almost $100 to take it all to the dump!
I’m glad you liked the show. They left out a lot of really fun stuff so we are going to make our own behind the scenes video soon. You’ll have to check it out when its time.
11 March 2009, 9:24 pmjustin:
hey rocky i saw the episode and got to say it was pretty sweet. my only question is how do i do it? i have 200 acres here in florida so plenty of room just need the recipe lol. your web site couldn’t be found so i left a comment here
15 March 2009, 9:21 pmp.s if ya’ll say don’t try it at home how did ya’ll start it? lol
Rocky:
Hey Justin. Just go to http://restrictedknowledge.com for the recipe!
16 March 2009, 12:02 amRocky II:
Hey, Rocky your full of sh*t! your just trying to promote the sale of your ebook full of crap! You don’t even know one person from that show and I should know, and I’m not selling anything or posting websites.
25 March 2010, 6:27 pm