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Speaking of interesting targets...try this one:
Find an area devoid of flammable material in a radius of at least 50 meters.
Fill a clear gallon milk jug with gasoline. It must be brimming full.
Light the top on fire. It will burn like a candle.
Run at least 25 meters away from the target.
Using the highest velocity rifle cartridges you can get your hands on, shoot the jug about two inces from the bottom. I have found Reminton Accelerator rounds in 30.06 to be especially effective. Don't know if you can get them any more. These fire a .223 caliber sabotted projectile at 4080fps. You need at least 3800fps and a soft jacketed bullet to acheive the full effect.
The gallon of gas will vaporize instantaneously, and the resulting fireball will rise about fifty to a hundred feet into the air, looking like a mushroom cloud.
It's an interesting break from shooting at thin planes of reformed tree fibers.
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." John Stuart Mill
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