Northeast Maryland Freepers: Big Bomb To Go Off At APG

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[icwhatudo]

Just a heads up that they will be testing a 500 pounder at Aberdeen Proving Gound in the next hour or so. Employees are being told to leave post or they will be stuck in offices for a while.

[Red Badger]

500 pounder? pfft! At Eglin they wouldn’t even notice......

[Tallguy]

A couple of friends of mine are down there hunting today. Should be some interesting stories.

Yesterday the told me how the deer fail to react when a 120mm tank round goes downrange, but just let your tree-stand creak a bit and they take off running.

[MARTIAL MONK]

They’re not going to test it on you, are they?

[icwhatudo]

It is funny when fishing the Gunpowder River and you tell your kids to stay quiet and then...BOOM!

[Red Badger]

Animals are intelligent. My chihuahua will not react to MY car keys jangling, but let my wife just touch her keys and the dog comes running from the other end of the house cause she knows she’s going somewhere!...............

[Domandred]

Hunting near training ranges is always fun.

I chukar hunt between the Snake River canyon and the Idaho training range for Mtn Home AFB and ANG Gowen Field.

At least once a year we’ll catch planes flying in the canyon, pop up and over and turn towards the range to drop payload.

[Red Badger]

Here’s the kinda stuff they work on here at EGLIN AFB:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-43/B_Massive_Ordnance_Air_Blast_bomb

[Doogle]

..another year or so and all will be able to drop is this MOAB

[Tallguy]

I was down at Aberdeen PG many years ago on a sales call at their “tin shop”. There was an interior gate to the secure area where the sheetmetal shop was. As I was sitting in my car at the gate speaking with the guard my car jumped sideways 3 inches toward the guardshack as a 120MM tank gun (that I hadn’t noticed) went off to my immediate right. He was laughing at me as I blurted out, “What the F-!”

I’m told that now they run sirens and an intercom gives a countdown. According to my hunter-friends, you can’t really hear any of this if your hunting adjacent to the impact zone. Everything just sort of ‘happens’.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Burnin’ down the woods ping.

[ravingnutter]

Our German Shepherd, Buddy, can hear my husband put on his slip-on yard shoes clear at the other end of the house and he comes running. However, he doesn't get excited if hubby puts on his tennis shoes for his powerwalk because he knows he can't go along. He is too aggressive with strangers to be taken out on a leash as he is mentally impaired due to a heat stroke he had as a puppy before we adopted him. Poor guy had been dumped with his litter mates in a taped up box outside a fire station in 98 degree weather and had to be resuscitated. As a result, he will always be an overgrown puppy. I have no clue how he figures out which is which without seeing the shoes. It is just weird. But that is one of the reasons I nicknamed him Goof ; )

[CougarGA7]

Burnin’ down the woods ping.

That was a funny "incident". As marshy as it is over there I was really surprised how well everything burns.

500lbs is pretty small so they should be alright.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

They’re rats with antlers, and apparently, clever ones.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

KA-BOOM!

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

[the OlLine Rebel]

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