you might be a redneck if ......

Mudduck

Mudduck

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If you use powder instead of miracle grow for your plants.

Over the past year when Ive pulled any commercial loads or reloads that I cant identify which power I used - had a case of 100 reloads with different powders and charges that I was planning on testing and by accident spilled the entire box on the floor grrrrrrr

Anyways, my wife commented on how well our house plants are doing - I told her that I just add some miracle grow every once in a a while when Im watering them ... I didnt say what kind of miracle grow ... but it seems to work quite well ... However when the flowers begin to pollinate - if they begin to let off sparks my secret might revealed

Im just thankful that the box that spilled were 223 and not 300 Wby cartridges
 
"...and send the bugger to the moon..." Smokeless powder won't do that. It doesn't explode.
"...can't identify which power..." A real redneck would use it anyway.
 
I've spread old powder on the lawn to help it grow. Now I have interesting dead areas all over those places in swirl patterns:mad:.
 
I dump old powder into the compost as it needs to break down for a bit. Even chicken sh*t will burn your plants/lawn or garden if it doesn't have time to mellow.
 
burnt_servo said:
I always thought that detonation was when smokeless was actually exploding rather than burning .
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Under normal conditions, modern smokeless propellant burns from the outside of the grain inwards. The technical term is 'deflagration' vice 'detonation'. To be sure, it's very quick (and gets much quicker under pressure - eg. inside a firearm chamber) but it's still burning vice exploding.

Under some special conditions, smokeless propellant can detonate - explode like a high explosive, with a hypersonic shock wave moving through the propellant and setting off the grains as it moves through them. Such incidents are very rare. I've seen it just once, but the results were spectacular.
 
ATOM said:
Under normal conditions, modern smokeless propellant burns from the outside of the grain inwards. The technical term is 'deflagration' vice 'detonation'. To be sure, it's very quick (and gets much quicker under pressure - eg. inside a firearm chamber) but it's still burning vice exploding.

Under some special conditions, smokeless propellant can detonate - explode like a high explosive, with a hypersonic shock wave moving through the propellant and setting off the grains as it moves through them. Such incidents are very rare. I've seen it just once, but the results were spectacular.
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Very well said Atom, when I was instructing at the ammo school we used to demonstrate this for new classes, it can be VERY impressive when done properly (or improperly caused results can be catastrophic)
 
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