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dE asked in SportsOutdoor RecreationHunting · 8 years ago

How to make rimfire binary shooting explosive?

Save the legalities - it's legal to make where I live

Save the safety concerns please.

Almost all of these companies sell you the basic APAN compound "Ammonium nitrate and powdered aluminum. But, in order for these to detonate they have to be shot with a high caliber round.

The question I am asking is, what are companies "like Red Jacket, Sureshot, Kickass" using "as far as the chemicals" to make the binary more explosive and reactive to rimfire like .22 and shotguns etc?

I know at least 1 company is using a 2 part chemical.

Thanks in advance. If your an anti-gun liberal hippy, please save your cry me a river responses for someone else.

Thanks,

Dave

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  • Mr.357
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    I would purchase one made for .22 lr and get it analyzed to see what they use.

  • Nigel
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Seriously, it's not worth it to make. The rimfire-sensitive binary explosives are significantly more unstable than the traditional NH4NO3/Al mixtures. If you have to ask how to make them, then you obviously shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Either buy them pre-made or forget about it all together. You will blow yourself up. I cannot stress that enough!!

  • The Freak Show
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The big problem is that anything that would detonate with the limited energy of a rimfire would probably be too unstable to be safe.

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