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I was watching the clay pigeon shooting on the
Commonwealth
games the other day and thought wouldnt it be cool if the
clay pegions had a hollowed out inside filled with petrol so
they exploded in a ball of flame when hit.
A brief history of clay pigeon shooting.
http://www.glswrk-auction.com/200.htm
[DrBob, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Only if I can use real pigeons.
(Psst! "pigeon".) |
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How about a claymore pigeon that shoots back? |
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Well u could make a more extreme version that as well as
exploding, explodes and shoots shrapnel everywhere, this
would mean you would have to shoot it and dive behind a
mound of dirt or somthing |
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[Gulherne], you appear to have dropped these: "Y" "o". |
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Where's that clay pie gone? |
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Why would these explode when hit? Petrol is unlikely to detonate as a result of impact and there is no incendiary charge or device that would facilitate the explosion. |
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Perhaps the addition of a pressure sensitive explosive to each clay target would help, but I'd hate to be the trap operator. They accelerate pretty quickly out of the trap, and that could be enough to cause detonation. |
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Personally, I'm all for using real pigeons. The final was 6 contestants x 150 targets each. That's 900 fewer pigeons, just for those six shooters. |
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That would be caused by the sparks struck by pellets passing through the metal can. There's no metal in a clay. |
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If we're going to use real pigeons then I'm in favour of fitting them with an explosive charge, just in case that Welsh guy who missed 31/150 is competing. |
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Could you not make metal clay pigeons then? |
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Unlikely that they'd fall apart, the better to see whether you hit them. |
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Even if you had an ignition source such as incindiary rounds, the PetroPigeon would burn too slowly to have much visual impact at normal viewing range. Better to be loaded with strike-anywhere matchheads (what are those made of, anyway?) and powdered magnesium or aluminum. Maybe add salts of strontium and copper for color. Much more flash and bang for your enjoyment. |
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Wouldn't the geese be a bit of a large target? Since they are being flung, use anything you want, how about rats? Bunnies are a good size too. |
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Make the clay's explosive as described, but aim them so the land in the shooting blind. Now there is real pressure not to miss. Would also work with the flying rats rbl wants. |
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ahem: rBL. Exploding flying rats, what fun. |
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You know that they hear you and may they find your car windshield and your stoop and may they lock on to the newly balding spot on your head. Poor little birds becoming prey. You're just AWFUL!!!!! |
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So are pigeons. They're not birds, they're flying rats. |
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Now we're getting specist, can I put the boot in on grey
squirrels? UCLA has an infestation on a Napoleonic scale,
but all's I get is 'weird lonely guy' looks when I try to kill
em myself. |
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From the squirrels? Mmmkay...? |
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If you moulded a disc in the Clay Pigeons from potassium chlorate in an organic adhesive binder (soething similar is used in alot of cheap AP land mines) and then added a small impact-sensetive detonator, they'd go BANG in a very satisfying way. You could add a sachet of petrogel for a flameburst effect. An automated clay trap wouldn't be diffcult to build. The fallout zone would have to be well fenced, as I guess any missed birds would go off when they hit the ground. |
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But personally, I'm right behind the idea of using real pigeons, and real squirrels ("Bushy-Tailed Tree Rats"). General Washington, go with what you believe .... |
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Oooh, and I've had another idea ....... <Insert 8th of 7's obligatory anti-cat rant here>. |
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We did that potassium chlorate thing at school. Petroleum jelly and softened paraffin wax to bind the mix. Detonate with a blasting cap. Blew quite a hole in the ground, after we buried it into an earthen bank.
90/3/7 |
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Ahhh, school chemistry lessons in the good old days ..... "happiest days of your life" ...... stoic mixtures of oxidisers and fuels ...... sticking nitro groups on aryl rings.......
I wonder how we survived ? We had no right to .... |
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Lux flakes, motor mower fuel... sticks to kids. |
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the earliest clay pigeons were actually glass balls filled with feathers |
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lets modify the glass balls and feathers idea to a hollow
clay sphere, kinda like two pidgeons glued together, line
the interior of it with featers that had been hollowed out
and half are filled with high explosive, and the other half
of the feathers are filled wil partially solidified petrol jelly,
and inside of the explosive feather padding is a fair sized
flat glass vial that is filled with a combination of 3/4
nitroglycerin and 1/4 fine sawdust. the vial would have to
be attached to all sides of the pidgeon incase it didn't get
hit directly, then it would split rapidly and then would go
off. much better then the original. |
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modify the glass ball filled with feathers to a clay sphere
somewhat like two pidgeons glued together, and fill it
with petrol jelly as a sort of padding, and inside of the
petrol jelly place a flat disc that spans almost the entire
width of the pidgeon, and fill it with nitroglycerin. it
sounds good to me, only you just gotta hope that a piece
of shot actually hits the disc and not just the side of the
pidgeon. |
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Obligatory "i thought this was going to be"... a way of cheating by making the clay pigeons explode automatically whether you hit them or not. But i like this idea better. |
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Tell me Senor Washington, how are you trying to kill them? Guns, knives, poison, traps, biowarfare? If you have a decent GM department near you, you could even use genowarfare... |
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I don't watch too much of this kind of stuf on TV, but if they had these...COOOOOLLL!!! |
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Exploding targets are a real product. |
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