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Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ssgp2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
http://www.saami.org/videos/sporting_ammunition_and_the_firefighter.cfm
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I watched the video on another forum. Quite interesting and contradicts a lot of what people expect to happen with ammunition in a fire etc...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ssgp2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
http://www.saami.org/videos/sporting_ammunition_and_the_firefighter.cfm
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I watched the video on another forum. Quite interesting and contradicts a lot of what people expect to happen with ammunition in a fire etc...
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
good info, fowarding this to a few of our local FF.
good info, fowarding this to a few of our local FF.
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
Pretty interesting. Not what I expected in terms of the the larger batches of ammo cooking off.
Forwarded this to our FD guys. Great video, thanks SSGP for posting.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Pretty interesting. Not what I expected in terms of the the larger batches of ammo cooking off.
Forwarded this to our FD guys. Great video, thanks SSGP for posting.
Cheers,
Sirhr
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
Been around plenty of ammo going off on structure fires and we learned long ago that there was no real velocity to worry about.
Good video and we will be watching it at a traning soon.
Thanks for posting.
Been around plenty of ammo going off on structure fires and we learned long ago that there was no real velocity to worry about.
Good video and we will be watching it at a traning soon.
Thanks for posting.
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
This is all fine and dandy, but I can say I have laddered through a second story building window, sounded the floor, and used the nightstand as a stool to get into a hot room. That said, upon overhaul of the structure, a 38 was found in that same nightstand with the grips melted off. There was not a round in the cylinder of the revolver that was in line with the barrel, but all the other cylinders had exploded rounds. That made me reach down and pat my balls.
Makes one think......
This is all fine and dandy, but I can say I have laddered through a second story building window, sounded the floor, and used the nightstand as a stool to get into a hot room. That said, upon overhaul of the structure, a 38 was found in that same nightstand with the grips melted off. There was not a round in the cylinder of the revolver that was in line with the barrel, but all the other cylinders had exploded rounds. That made me reach down and pat my balls.
Makes one think......
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
I wonder how a couple of 8# jugs of powder would react?
I wonder how a couple of 8# jugs of powder would react?
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ElCoyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wonder how a couple of 8# jugs of powder would react? </div></div>
8lbs of smokeless powder has roughly the same energy as a pint of gasoline. As long as it is not confined in a very robust container, it will likely just flare off in a fairly unexciting manner.
People sometimes get all wound up over a few pounds of smokeless powder, and yet don't think twice about storing gas cans, propane tanks, welding bottles, etc. in their attached garages.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ElCoyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wonder how a couple of 8# jugs of powder would react? </div></div>
8lbs of smokeless powder has roughly the same energy as a pint of gasoline. As long as it is not confined in a very robust container, it will likely just flare off in a fairly unexciting manner.
People sometimes get all wound up over a few pounds of smokeless powder, and yet don't think twice about storing gas cans, propane tanks, welding bottles, etc. in their attached garages.
Re: Sporting Ammunition and the Firefighter
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: E. Bryant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ElCoyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wonder how a couple of 8# jugs of powder would react? </div></div>
8lbs of smokeless powder has roughly the same energy as a pint of gasoline. As long as it is not confined in a very robust container, it will likely just flare off in a fairly unexciting manner.
<span style="font-weight: bold">People sometimes get all wound up over a few pounds of smokeless powder, and yet don't think twice about storing gas cans, propane tanks, welding bottles, etc. in their attached garages. </span> </div></div>
^^^^^ This. LOL.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: E. Bryant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ElCoyote</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wonder how a couple of 8# jugs of powder would react? </div></div>
8lbs of smokeless powder has roughly the same energy as a pint of gasoline. As long as it is not confined in a very robust container, it will likely just flare off in a fairly unexciting manner.
<span style="font-weight: bold">People sometimes get all wound up over a few pounds of smokeless powder, and yet don't think twice about storing gas cans, propane tanks, welding bottles, etc. in their attached garages. </span> </div></div>
^^^^^ This. LOL.
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