Shooting a block of ice...

[Mitchza89]

Well lads, I tried to shoot a block of solid ice that I set in a beer can (always have plenty of those around ) and I thought id be able to shoot a 8mm rock through it... To my horror, it did absolute bugger all. Just mearly a small crator 20mm across and 10mm deep.

I really thought it would have blown it up ...

[MaxuS the 2nd]

Ice is quite solid, I fired a water bottle filled with ice at a chair once. It mangled the chair and did sod all to the bottle.

[Velocity]

Ice is quite solid, I fired a water bottle filled with ice at a chair once. It mangled the chair and did sod all to the bottle.

And consider Pykrete, which is ice mixed with sawdust; it is even stronger than ice (approaching the strength of concrete) and it melts slower too. Do we have another challenge thread?

[MaxuS the 2nd]

Do we have another challenge thread?

That sounds like a plan..

[potatoflinger]

Try making a thin sheet of ice, then shoot it with a largish caliber spud gun, and it looks awesome. It looks kind of like a window shattering.

[psycix]

Wait, im confused, did you use the block of ice as projectile or as target?

[potatoflinger]

Wait, im confused, did you use the block of ice as projectile or as target?

A target.

[DYI]

After I shot the steel and ice slug at the door for my comp vid, I was surprised to discover that the ice was still intact in the cylinder, despite the cylinder being about 1/2 of its original length.

Someone needs to come up with some sort of ice/Pykrete challenge. Maybe something like: "Putting an ice/Pykrete slug through 1/8" steel plate?"

[VH_man]

Ice is very strong.....

Where i live, Mother nature was nice enough to cover every inch of every outdoor thing with about a 1/2 inch of ice. I tried to remove the ice from our driveway with a giant metal pole about.... 6 feet long and 3 inches in diameter... and all it did was crack mabey an inch of the stuff away.

i then moved to my Dartgun (156 ft/lbs) and it still just made a "crater" and did not crack the ice at all.

eventually, i just gave up...........

but yes, ice is VERY strong...... (someone needs to make an ice pressure chamber..... NOW)

[benstern]

challenge: break a 1 foot square pycrete block that is a half foot thick.

[DYI]

challenge: break a 1 foot square pycrete block that is a half foot thick.

You're on Benstern. You can expect a video of my attempt whenever spring comes.