anyone know about Tannerite ??

new pig hunter · Post by **new pig hunter** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 6:17 pm

Tannerite in small 8-ounce doses is great fun.

BUT .... tannerite in LARGE doses .... well, you decide:

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article ... yid=492577
... tonight a 30 year old Red Wing, MN man is in hot water after detonating a powerful bomb in back of his home yesterday. "When you can take a steel dump truck box, turn it into scrap metal and send it 1/4 mile away.... that's a bomb," reasoned Goodhue County Sheriff Dean Albers.

The suspect admits buying 100 pounds of an explosive material advertised as 'Tannerite' from an internet website. The compound is most commonly used by long range target shooters, who aim at 8-ounce cans and know they've hit their mark when they explode. The suspect's device was the equivalent of 200 of those cans. "He had placed it inside of a barrel inside the bed of an old dump truck, and shot it it with a 50 caliber rifle from 300 yards away," explained Sheriff Albers.

The blast was powerful enough to rattle windows at Treasure Island, and trigger a high alert at nearby Prairie Island Nuclear Powerplant (editor's note: Lou has wandered around inside this nuke plant). Hunks of metal were discovered more than a quarter mile away from the suspect's property. An officer who responded to the scene reports seeing another bombed out vehicle near the remains of the dump truck, suggesting it is not the suspect's first attempt at manufacturing an explosive device.

As disturbing to the Sheriff as what 'could' have happened, is the fact that such dangerous materials are just a mouse click away. "That you could go ahead and order 100 pounds of this, with the regulations out there, this day and age, you'd have thought someone would build a mechanism that would have detected someone's order this kind of amount."

KARE Channel 11 News contacted the manufacturer of Tannerite, who confirmed he shipped ten cases of the compound to the suspect. It is certain both the 30 year old man 'and' the Tannerite website will undergo increased scrutiny, as agents for the FBI, ATF, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, US Post Office, and the US Coast Guard have contacted the Goodhue County Sheriff. Both local and federal charges are possible in the case.
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Cheers,

Carl

Jaguarundi · Post by **Jaguarundi** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:18 pm

Can you say "NUT JOB"

!What was he think'n post 9/11 that nobody would notice?

Glad he was arrested and nobody seriously harmed.Thanks for posting.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:32 pm

Messing with the nuke plant?

I'd say he's in deep.

95fan · Post by **95fan** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 7:48 pm

Unfortunatly tannerite will soon probably be illegal thanks to this moron.

JimT · Post by **JimT** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:57 pm

This incident is not Tanner's only problem ..

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs ... 043/NEWS01

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 9:25 pm

Whom did he harm? Whose property did he damage?

No one? Nobodys? They WHY does anyone care?

OH NO! He made NOISE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

People need to mind their own danged business.

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 1:03 am

FWiedner wrote:Whom did he harm? Whose property did he damage?

No one? Nobodys? They WHY does anyone care?

OH NO! He made NOISE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

People need to mind their own danged business.

Usually I would agree with a statement like this. In this case, however, the person was using very poor judgement. I don't know how populated an area he lives in, but if he can send pieces of a dump truck a quarter mile away, then he could have seriously injured someone. If he was doing it in the middle of a privately owned thousand plus acres, well, that's a different story. Just think, though, what would have happened if someone was walking by and got hit by the shrapnel? While I agree that people that are minding their own business should be left alone, and we should be allowed to have fun, it's people like this who give us fun loving rednecks a bad name, lol. While I think blowing up a dump truck would be cooler than anything I've ever done before, it might not be the smartest. Then again, it might not be the dumbest thing I ever did, either

Leverdude · Post by **Leverdude** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:45 am

I think he used poor judgment. But since thats not illegal & he didn't hurt anyone whats the big deal?

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:26 am

It's a big deal to the likes of us because he used bad judgment.
All THEY need is one more excuse to look at common items that could be used to make a bomb (oh, let's see... black powder, smokeless powder, primers....) and decide to add more regulations or try to outlaw them altogether. Don't we have enough on our plate without a dope like this adding his brand of stupidity to the list of accusations THEY have aimed at us? The fact that he put a nuclear power plant on alert is no small thing. The fact that the imbecile used a weapon of great contention, a .50 caliber rifle, really steams me. I wouldn't want to be in that moron's shoes right now, because he's getting a most serious government-sponsored rectal exam, that may never end.
Many of us, and the organizations we belong to, make it our business to constantly cultivate safety in the shooting sports, to manifest a image of responsibility to ourselves and the public so our enemies can't say otherwise. A idiot like this guy sets us back, gives us more fronts to fight on.

BenT · Post by **BenT** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:33 am

This guy doesn't live in a remote area . There is plenty of housing in this area. So the incoming shrapnel on his neighbors is an issue.

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:08 am

The guy had absolutely no idea how powerful the blast would be, or how far materials would travel. People could have been hurt. He deserves what he gets now.
The question is, do we deserve the fallout?

Camp Cook · Post by **Camp Cook** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:47 am

All I can say is where can I get some and can I legally bring it into BC.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:53 pm

95fan wrote:Unfortunatly tannerite will soon probably be illegal thanks to this moron.

Yes, I would love to get a small quantity and use it responsibly; but since we now live in a police state thanks to our politicians on the left and right, I'd be afraid some hotshot alphabet-soup agents would decide it was a slow news day and blow my house up, kill my family, and/or put me in jail for life after planting some kind of contraband on me, all because I bought something they didn't like John Q. Public to have. When I was a kid, you could walk in to many rural hardware stores and just sign a sheet of paper to buy dynamite. No 'background check' no 'proof of need' and guess what - nobody was blowing up airplanes, schools, and public buildings. Maybe that was because we taught responsibility then, and we knew the difference between real crime (with actual 'victims') vs. imagined crime, and 'vice'. Maybe it was also because back then the ordinary citizen didn't fear or despise the government. Anyway, it would have been fun to shoot soda cans full of this stuff out at about 500 yards, and wouldn't have hurt anyone but whatever bugs were crawling around near it when you hit it.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:56 pm

P.S. - my son and I shot a dry soda can full of black powder that I wanted to get rid of, with a .223, and it didn't 'do' anything but make a hole in the can and flip it in the air and most of the powder fall out the holes in the can.

I always thought black powder would blow up if you did that - what gives...?

homefront · Post by **homefront** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:20 am

You can't make a spark with copper and aluminum.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:48 am

AJMD429 wrote:P.S. - my son and I shot a dry soda can full of black powder that I wanted to get rid of, with a .223, and it didn't 'do' anything but make a hole in the can and flip it in the air and most of the powder fall out the holes in the can.

I always thought black powder would blow up if you did that - what gives...?

Use a Tracer...

Post by **AmBraCol** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:24 am

AJMD429 wrote:P.S. - my son and I shot a dry soda can full of black powder that I wanted to get rid of, with a .223, and it didn't 'do' anything but make a hole in the can and flip it in the air and most of the powder fall out the holes in the can.

I always thought black powder would blow up if you did that - what gives...?

You didn't have enough resistance nor did you cause a spark. That bullet zipped through just displacing the powder, not compressing it. If you'd used a flat tipped bullet and had the can against a rock and if you'd used a different caliber then perhaps you'd have gotten a different result. Not that I'd advocate such activities - it's merely an exercise in theorizing.... Don't do this at home, don't do it in populated places and above all don't do it within hearing distance of anyone who's allergic to loud noises as you just may be inviting the alphabet mob to drop in for the festivities...