re ammo in a fire was re waco burning in article c xbwr b world std com htf world std com harry carter writes sunshine cco caltech edu tom renner writes v qheg ubvmsb cc buffalo edu p vasilion writes can you imagine what happens when a magazine explodes bullets go flying every where imho these gunshot wounds were actually caused when the magazines went up a minor technical point unless a cartridge is contained for example in the chamber of a gun when it goes off very little of interest happens quoting hatcher s notebook the sporting arms and ammunition manufactures institute reported a demonstration made by taking a large quantity of metallic cartridges and shotgun shells and burning them in a fire of oil soaked wood the cartridges and shells exploded from time to time but there was no general explosion or throwing off of bullets or shot to any distance throughout the test the men conducting it remained within ft of the fire without being injured in any way the material of which the cartridge and shells are composed will usually not fly more than a few feet in tests conducted by the national rifle association both rifle and pistol cartridges were exploded by heat under an ordinary corrugated pasteboard carton and neither fragments of the cartridge cases nor bullets penetrated the cardboard any scientists care to try this out in their kitchen here goes more than a few years back if you were born that year you can legally drink we tried it out we found an ft deep cistern that we lined with some ft x s we put a large can one of those industrial sized pork n beans cans stuffed with oily rags and scraps of wood in the bottom after lighting the fire we lowered a box of spc swcs into the can we heard pops one solid bang and several fizzzz shussss after we thought the excitment was over we boldly climbed down to find that none of the bullets had left the can several of the shells were lieing around the bottom of the well and the boards had all died of smoke inhalation and or of the shells still had live primers dillon pyron the opinions expressed are those of the ti dseg lewisville vax support sender unless otherwise stated when i m here when i m home texans vote no on robin hood we need pyron skndiv dseg ti com solutions not gestures padi dm
