Home-made Tannerite rifle targets.?

Question

Anybody have a recipe for home-made Tannerite rifle targets or know where I can fine one. The commercially available targets are too expensive.

Answer 1

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~WARNING.. If you blow yourself up it is not my fault!~

Tannerite is no great secret. It's a simple binary explosive, kind of like kinepak...

TOTALLY HARMLESS WHEN IT IS SEPERATED

1 part dark aluminum flake to 9 parts ammonium nitrate.

Mix 5% aluminum powder with 95% Amonium Nitrate.

A good source of aluminum powder is Aluma-Seal, a radiator stop-leak, is aluminum powder.

Amonium Nitrate, get it from United Nuclear

Get a cheap kitchen scale too.

DO NOT MIX THIS AT YOUR HOUSE, MIX IT AT THE RANGE, USE IT AT THE RANGE AND DO NOT TAKE ANY HOME WITH YOU

Start with the following to make sure it works:

100g AN mixed with 5g AL IN a 20-ounce bottle with screw on top.

Pour the 100g AN mixed with 5g AL into the container and shake them up until they are mixed.

Formula for mixing:

X * 0.05 = Y
X = Weight of AN
Y = Weight of AL to mix with that amount of AN

50 pounds of AN = 22,679.6185 grams

so using the above formula

22679.6185 * 0.05 = 1,133.980925

1133.980925 grams = 2.5 pounds of AL

So for every 50lb of AN you purchase you will need around 2.5lb of AL.

But I doubt you could get 50lbs of AN without the BATFE & OR DHS banging on your front door...

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Asker's Comment:

Thank you very much. That's far more info than I expected. If and when I get around to blowing myself up, I hereby absolve you of any and all responsibility. Thanks again.
Nathan

Answer 2

Look at this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannerite




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