Tannerite Exploding Targets / Red Targets??

GooseGrease

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Last weekend I went out to a private shooting range with a few of my hunting buddies for a good old fashioned “Shoot ‘em Up”. One of the guys had a product he purchased off the internet called “Red Targets”. It was everyone’s first time with this stuff so he bought the introductory box that contained different size / ounce packages. The sizes ranged from ½ lb. to 2lbs. Needles to say I was really impressed because this stuff packs one he11 of a wallop. First thing Monday I’m on the net looking this stuff up and find many different brands of binary targets. My question to the group is….Has anyone else experimented with this material and is one brand better than the other?
 
They are all 34-0-0 ammonia nitrate that you mix with a hydrocarbon. The hydrocarbon is usually aluminium powder. The smaller the ammonia nitrate prills, the faster the burn. They are all about the same.
 
Stand back!!!!!

Whatever you do, dont mix that stuff and drive, its considered a muy muy bad no no if you get pulled over and its mixed.


and be careful.....heres what having too much money, time and tannerite can do.

 
Just a side note, aluminum powder is very bad for your system. Wear some rubber gloves when handling it. I dont know why they don't put a warning on the tube of aluminum powder in these kits....however they are like watching helicopter, they never get old.
 
I cant find the 34-0-0. Is this going to be available here soon for the growing season or is this now a no,no product for citizens? I read somewhere that 27-0-0 would work also,I thought I did. But not sure. I found where I could buy the prills that they make the original formula from,but is 140$ for 50#. Any info on any other subsitute or info if 34-0-0 will be available for spring planting.
 
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Thats a nice bang. But as civilians we have to have an explosive expert on hand if made anything over 50# of that stuff. You see what 30# of that does to a truck? Take a peak. When you start adding things to the mix as microwaves and fridges and ext. is when it is classified as a bomb.



Yea also those kids cant shoot worth crap
 
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Originally Posted By: predyotevarmint I cant find the 34-0-0. Is this going to be available here soon for the growing season or is this now a no,no product for citizens? I read somewhere that 27-0-0 would work also,I thought I did. But not sure. I found where I could buy the prills that they make the original formula from,but is 140$ for 50#. Any info on any other subsitute or info if 34-0-0 will be available for spring planting.

You won't find 34-0-0 or 33-0-0 ammonium nitrate anymore unless you have an explosive license. It has been fazed out as an ag. fertilizer over the last couple of years. It has been replaced with 46-0-0 Urea nitrate if I remember correctly. You can't make a binary explosive (Tannerite) with Urea nitrate as easy as with Ammonium nitrate. The "G" takes all the fun out of somethings sometimes.
 
Just my two cents, but looking for a "possible substitute" for ammonium nitrate to make a binary explosive could get you in a lot of trouble. The "G" gets very interested in people who are trying to make any freelance explosives. Even if they are purely for innocent fun. I'm not trying to be a buzz kill, but I also don't want to see anyone get themselves in real trouble asking questions like this on a free and open forum.
 
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I was just trying to give a friendly warning about advertising that you are trying to make a binary explosives using anything other than what companies like Tannertite or Red Targets sell as a "government approved" binary explosive. As for A.N. 34-0-0, go around to your local farm supplements and start asking or inquire about buying 34-0-0 it and you will put up more warning flags than you ever wanted. Being a LEO and having explosive training through the DOD, I will tell you that anyone who has the ability to purchase 34-0-0 or 33-0-0 on a wholesale level also is asked to document and/or report anyone who is asking about small quantities of it ( smaller than a semi trail full). A.N. 34-0-0 and 33-0-0 is not to far away from being a controlled substance again. I would put money on that any nitrate base exploding are going to be illegal within the next couple of years. As for a license to purchase, I was not being literal. A.N. 34-0-0 and 33-0-0 is very hard to buy anymore and when you find it (like through companies like Red targets) it is expensive. What Red Target sells is explosive grade A.N 34-0-0. ( As a side note and/or worthless fact: Ag. grade A.N. has a type of lackar coating to give it a time controlled release into soil. Weapon grade A. N. does not have this coating.)

I myself have a couple of pounds of Tannertite sitting around and love shooting. But I would not be trying to locate another alternative means of making it other that what I can buy at Walmart with an ATF&E letter printed on the side of the box saying "this particular binary mixture is approved by us." Saving a couple of dollar a pound is not worth the headache of sitting in a federal court, spending thousands, to defend your actions. Look how the world looks at you for having a hi-cap mag and flash suppressor on your " Ar-15 military style assault weapon" that has no legal purpose and sole use is to kill our children. It would not be hard to twist the facts regarding Tannertite either.
 
Originally Posted By: tactical assaultI was just trying to give a friendly warning about advertising that you are trying to make a binary explosives using anything other than what companies like Tannertite or Red Targets sell as a "government approved" binary explosive.

Gotcha.
 


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