Comments for Sometimes, a guy just hasta say...

Sometimes, a guy just hasta say...

2009-11-03T13:30:57Z

Neener Neener Neener!

I know, it's an ugly thing to do. And mean.

But sometimes I just can't keep it to myself.

The Castle Armory's Polish-made DP-28.

Comment from SezaGeoff on 2009-11-04

2009-11-04T23:30:31Z

NDS - the last thing you want all your Pyrodex, other powder and ammo to be in is a safe. Generally the powders will go whoosh, and as JTG says the ammo will usually just pop off. See Hathcer's Notebook for his experiments using a cardboard box as a catcher for bits of exploding cartridges. However, confining powder in a rigid container like an old safe can make it into a bomb, as you can develop enough pressure to cause the stuff to explode. I keep my powders in an old wooden ammo box (they made them that way for a reason) inside a steel cupboard that would burst before it became too much of a problem. If you do not have much powder, you should be right, but be aware of the risks. Put a explosives sign on the door, and if it catches fire, see if anybody else can run as fast as you!

Comment from Justthisguy on 2009-11-04

2009-11-04T20:38:16Z

NDS, there was a good article in American Rifleman a few years back about ammo cooking off in fires, and hazards to responding firemen. I mean, they did actual experiments, against turn-out coats, and all. Conclusion was that with eye protection and heavy clothing yer perfectly safe. The smokeless has to be confined more than a cartridge case will do to get up nasty pressure. Now, there was this guy I used to know who insisted on running into the garage ahead of the firemen to retrieve his jar of mercury fulminate.... The firemen yelled at him for disobeying, but I betcha they were glad they didn't go in there. I don't _think_ he had charges against him. Musta been good buddies with the Sheriff.

Comment from NevadaDailySteve on 2009-11-04

2009-11-04T16:37:31Z

JTG,

One of the first fires I covered for the paper was out in the county and I actually got there before any of the volunteer fire departments did. I was walking around the house taking pictures when the first fire truck pulled up. After they were set up I stayed further back, out of the way. I was talking to the owner and expressing my condolences on his loss when I said something about the fire really crackling. He looked at me and gave a sort of funny laugh and said something about it not being the fire but several thousand rounds of various calibers of ammo going off. A couple of weeks later I was at an auction and picked up an old safe cheap and put all my ammo and Pyrodex in there.

Comment from SangerM on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T03:51:26Z

JTG, that reminds me of the time some genius tossed a can of C-ration peanut butter in a fire pit. It exploded and a jet of hot peanut butter shot out, some of which got on one of the guys. Suffice to say, all was not cool for a bit... And of course, it scared the crap out of the 8 or 9 of us standing around in the dark (and yeah, Ft. Hood can get COLD in the winter, especially around antelope mound.)

It also reminds me of the time anoteh genius cooked a can of baked beans in a toaster oven. The can exploded, the toaster oven was completely destroyed (laid out like a cardboard box ready to be folded. Best of all, the explosion sent baked beans all over the barracks room (bunks, wall lockers, posters, windows, stereos, floors, etc), AND it pulverized the big magnet in the JBL speaker standing next to table. Good thing it wasn't my room or my speaker. I'd have been a bit PO'd.

Comment from SangerM on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T03:44:02Z

Heyo Seza,

I've got a whirlpool dryer that just went sour (runs but no heat). I can tape a magazine to it if that'd get you interested in fiddlin' with it.... would a copy of Guns & Ammo do?

:-]

Comment from SangerM on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T03:38:50Z

Nyah, nyah... John double-posted.... nyah, nyah!

:-D

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T03:23:08Z

Tune in tomorrow, Sanger.

emdfl - that one is a dummy. There's a semi in-bound.

Comment from emdfl on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T03:15:48Z

Is that a semi or a non-functioning replica?

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T03:11:54Z

This is why we don't leave you unsupervised, JTG.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T01:59:42Z

Which reminds me: The previous yankee redneck (the worst kind) tenant of this place left a few of those Remington high-velocity .22 cartridges here. Not wishing to shoot them in my piece (I think they defeat the purpose of the .22, being too violent to the meat and not very accurate) I decided to burn them as candles to Saint Barbara when feeling the Popish superstition, a bit. Now, previously, when cooking off .22LRs in or on the stove, my container caught the bullets in only slightly dented condition, and I was left with pristine empty cases. Not so with these; the cases were ruptured and the bullets quite dented against the inside of the oven.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T00:53:35Z

Yeah, Seza. Some people just don't understand that simply sitting there and fiddling with it is fun.

Except JTG. He understands that all to well, and in disturbing ways.

Welcome back to DigitalWorld, JTG!

Comment from SezaGeoff on 2009-11-03

2009-11-04T00:19:19Z

After he upset me with all the Brens and AG42Bs, FALs etc., a Lewis would be too much to bear! All this fun stuff, even just to pull it apart and put it back together again. :crying:

Comment from SangerM on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T23:25:51Z

Just another old broke-looking gun to me.... Can't you afford anything that looks newer and less used, like it came from Unca Joe's little shop of purges?

Maybe something really impressive, like, well I dunno.... How about This, this, this, this or these?

I really like the last two, but only when I'm out of needler or shotgun ammo.

:-)

Comment from Justthisguy on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T22:59:52Z

Rulezes is important when weird folk might contrive to hide under the workbench and get locked into the Armory overnight. The Armorer is smart enough to keep the machine tools in a separate, undisclosed location, I betcha. (Dammit!) Say, you wouldn't have a Lewis around there somewhere, would you? I mean, it would be good for lots of Masonic jokes.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T21:28:35Z

Dude - drill rounds are rarer and cost more - what's yer beef?

And safer, too, on a weapon that might get handled.

We gots rulez about loaded guns at Castle Argghhh!

Comment from heath on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T21:14:09Z

Ach Mein Gott, Drill rounds? Oh the horror.

Heath

Comment from MikeD on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T19:04:21Z

Thanks for fixing that for me, John. I didn't want to compound my bonehead move by making a third post asking to have it fixed.

Comment from Grimmy on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T18:39:50Z

If you got it, flaunt it.

It's in the rules.

Comment from MikeD on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T17:51:42Z

Oooh... you're a dirty little drum fed light machine gun... aren't you? Yes you are! I'll bet the Polish boys all like you, don't they? And look at you, with your magazine all open and exposed. You're just naughty!

[Don't mind me, I'm just fixing what I broke - the Armorer]

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T17:48:14Z

Argghhh! I musta deleted one of MikeD's double comments right when the server gnome deleted the other!

And Tim, the DP 28 has been in the holdings of the Castle Armory since the Castle opened for business on the web, back in 2003.

Comment from AW1 Tim on 2009-11-03

2009-11-03T17:40:57Z

Oh my....... that gap between the haves and the have-nots just keeps growing.. sigh....

Nice looking machine, however.. :)