It’s never wise to shoot at propane tanks. This guy shoots a bunch with a .50 BMG rifle. This is nothing short of insane. Posted on 09/05/2017 6:54:44 AM PDT by w1n1
It’s never wise to shoot at propane tanks. This guy shoots a bunch with a .50 BMG rifle. This is nothing short of insane.
Mothers everywhere need to look away from this video. This guy does something no parent would suggest.
YouTuber Edwin Sarkissian decided, why not shoot propane tanks with a .50 BMG rifle? He lights road flares on the tanks, gets back a little ways, and then… boom! Two tanks get punctured and twirl in the air. The propane gas then ignites into an infernal that engulfs everything. Safe, right?
In the shooting sports, we urge gun safety. This type of shooting is way above the risky factor. I personally would pass on those explosive targets. Question is, would you? See the full .50 Cal vs Propane video here.
Yep, that’s a big infernal, alright. I see you still have 7th graders writing for your blog.
He’s a long way away in a desllate
place. It’s astun. It was carried out as safely as possible. Stupid on a level but done safely.
Reaching new heights in plinking.
Nah, this is good. This shows what happens when you shoot propane tanks so some poor idjit doesn’t have to go out and try the experiment hisself to find out.
Hell that’s prolly why he used a .50 so he could be very far away.
LOL, God bless America!
Heck of a carbon footprint.
Don’t tell Algore.
“He lights road flares on the tanks”
I’m always irritated at “what if we shoot X” videos that go out of their way to induce explosions unrelated to the shot itself (beyond the shot simply being a trigger for the obvious).
Just laying a road flare on a propane tank might be enough to ignite it. Shooting it merely opens a hole from a safe distance.
That’s what tracers are for.
Totally agree. Try shooting it an incendiary round and impress me with the results.
Quite. If the target is prone to explosions, at least let the bullet supply the ignition.
Even then, make clear the bullet is still just a trigger - the explosion is NOT a matter of the shot.
Punch a bullet thru interesting things (armored steel, thick wood, walls, underwater, etc) and I’ll be impressed.
(Don’t get me wrong. Stuff going kablooie is cool.)
No, it shows what happens when you shot a propane tank that has a lighted flare on top of it. Why a .50 cal? A .30 cal would have penetrated the propane tank and released the propane to be ignited by the lite flare.
The Mythbusters did this experiment. They found that shooting a propane tank with a normal rifle round just poked a hole in the propane tank. IIRC, they got their explosion only with an incendiary round. There has to a source of ignition.
Infernal FAE...
Donate propane tanks and BBQ grills to ISIS groups then when they are all enjoying their barbecued goat and whatever they drink instead of beer, snipe the tanks with SAS or Delta Force ops.
Waste of ammo. Waste of propane.
The test implies two tanks were penetrated, and both blew up. The video shows one tank spinning (clearly it got penetrated.) But the others? Burned out maybe when the fire around them blew the tank open from high pressure due to the heat?
Should have shot one at a time. Tracer.
Nope. There are two separate plumes. One low down. One in mid-air.
I used to shoot at armored steel “drums” full of fuel, live ammunition and people trying to kill me. (Please, dont tell my mom!)
This is pretty passive in comparison.
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