Shot the primer end of a few loaded 12 gauge shells using my .22 quite a few years ago from about 30 yards and it was underwhelming. The case walls split open and the shot was spread about in a 2-3 foot circle. Without the chamber and barrel to allow pressure to build and guide the energy in one direction they were reduced to nothing more than a big firecracker. They were so quiet when they went off that we didn't realize that we had actually set them off until we walked up.
How dangerous is this?
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Shot the primer end of a few loaded 12 gauge shells using my .22 quite a few years ago from about 30 yards and it was underwhelming. The case walls split open and the shot was spread about in a 2-3 foot circle. Without the chamber and barrel to allow pressure to build and guide the energy in one direction they were reduced to nothing more than a big firecracker. They were so quiet when they went off that we didn't realize that we had actually set them off until we walked up.
Horse feathers! There must have been at least a crater.
How deep was it?
....Then there was the time this one-visit-then-banished wanker tossed a handfull of DIZ .303 blanks in the (thin) sheetmetal woodstove. Dramatic geyser's of ash spewed hither and yon out the gaps in the seams, .... fouling the respirations of the less than amused occupants. Lye in the eye 'tain't doin' ya
no good, eh.
A shotgun shell would be rather underwhelming for sure, but I well remember the 7mm mag round that dented the stove from the inside. The copper casing will allow pressure to build enough for a dangerous situation. Wood stoves and ammo dont do well together but a lighter is a far cry from a wood stove or camp fire
