Question about a grenade

[RTicUL8]

If you put a standard issue, pull-the-pin grenade on a post and shot it, would it explode?


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The reason I ask, is that I was wondering about combat and what would happen if a grenade got shot while you're holding it.


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[ZomBrady]

It's possible that it would go off, but it's not a for sure thing that it will.

My stupid cousins set off a box of dynamite with a .22 rifle, but it was pretty old and fuzzy. But the explosive in a grenade needs heat and pressure to go off, hence the time delay detonator.

 

[Cornflake]

i was so intrigued by your question that i strapped a grenade to myself and had a friend shoot at me. needless to say, i am now only a stump since half of my body blew up. it sucks LOL!!!

 

[Muad'Dib]

The bullet has to penetrate the casing and strike the primary explosives in the fuse.

So yes it will explode if you put it on a post and aim / shoot at it and are able to hit it just right so that the bullet will not slide / ricochet off.

If its in your hand and your being shot at, its unlikely that a bullet is going to hit that small of a moving target, let alone if it does hit its just going to ricochet off.

 

[WB9YZU]

<In a Mr. Macky voice>
Grenades are bad.

Anyone holding a Grenade is bad.

Getting shot while still holding a Grenade is bad.



Sounds like a Mythbuster Question.
Send it to them and lets find out!

 

[Hellbent]

so ummm...don't shoot at grenades mmmmkay?

 

[RichP]

It would be no worse than shooting a 1lb can of gun powder, it *might* ignite but probably not. Now if you hit the fuse just right maybe. C4 on the other hand has a better chance and thats almost none,I have tried it a couple of times with an M14 at 100 yards, we used it alot, came in handy for cooking, better than heat tabs, would boil a canteen cup in under a minute, you just had to remember not to stamp it out or pour water on it to put it out....
I think that the case or shell of a grenade would shatter, it's already pre cut or pre fractured inside to come apart.

 

[JohnX]

Just shoot the pin out Ms. Oakley.

 

[Ray H]

The reason I ask, is that I was wondering about combat and what would happen if a grenade got shot while you're holding it.


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It would hurt your hand ALOT

 

[RichP]

It would hurt your hand ALOT

Yea, for a sample go wack as steel fence post thats set in concrete with an alumium or louisville slugger.

 

[5-90]

It would be no worse than shooting a 1lb can of gun powder, it *might* ignite but probably not. Now if you hit the fuse just right maybe. C4 on the other hand has a better chance and thats almost none,I have tried it a couple of times with an M14 at 100 yards, we used it alot, came in handy for cooking, better than heat tabs, would boil a canteen cup in under a minute, you just had to remember not to stamp it out or pour water on it to put it out....
I think that the case or shell of a grenade would shatter, it's already pre cut or pre fractured inside to come apart.

Yeah - C4 works great for cooking! Especially when you're cheating a "cold camp..."

It's easiest to just invert a can or your canteen cup overtop of it and let it smother itself to put it out. Give the can a few minutes or so to cool off afterwards, and you'll be fine.

 

[RTicUL8]

I'm just wondering in the history of wars using guns & grenades, if there are any recorded deaths associated with a bullet hitting a grenade and blowing up?

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[woody]

I'd rather takes my chances with a frag grenade vs a flash-bang or can of black powder

Like alluded to above, frags are filled with a fairly stable explosive filler (into which a fuse/igniter assembly is threaded...a'la the thing on the top with the spoon & pin) IF the bullet struck that fuse assy, it could set the chain of ignition into play... IF it struck the body of the grenade, less likely... but if that fuse went off... ka-boom!

The flash bang (less than lethal 'shock & awe' grenade) is likely filled with a type of flash powder... which like black powder is very spark sensitive. A lead bullet would probably not set off a can of black powder... A steel core or incendiary bullet probably would...

 

[buzzbombxj]

Where are you lucky guys getting this c4?

 

[ladywolf]

lol the military before people realized they had to regulate it because people were taking it home and using it to blow stuff up!



but then again, most the homemade stuff is more potent now than C4 is.

 

[woody]

lol the military before people realized they had to regulate it because people were taking it home and using it to blow stuff up!...

GASP! No they weren't! How treacherous!

 

[RichP]

lol the military before people realized they had to regulate it because people were taking it home and using it to blow stuff up!



but then again, most the homemade stuff is more potent now than C4 is.

My first trip home I had a full large with all kinds of goodies in it, got pulled out of the field and shipped from SEA to Mcguire on emergency leave still wearing my tigers. Came in handy a few months later when I have to have a major repair done on my car in NJ, cleared the gas station owners building lot with the white wire.

 

[Trail-Axe]

It's possible that it would go off, but it's not a for sure thing that it will.

My stupid cousins set off a box of dynamite with a .22 rifle, but it was pretty old and fuzzy. But the explosive in a grenade needs heat and pressure to go off, hence the time delay detonator.

Years ago, commercially available Dynamite was nitroglycerin based. It is very dangerous. When it is hot outside the heat causes the nitro to sweat out. The nitro then forms salt like crystals on the out side (the old and fuzzy you refer to) . These salt like crystals are very unstable and can explode just by touch. Today Dynamite is ammonium-based, and much more stable then the old nitro based dynamite. That is why your friend was able to detonate it with a .22 rifle bullet. If ya ever come across this older style of dynamite again, call your local bomb disposal unit and don’t mess with it.

And stay away from the old copper blasting caps that came in a round or square tin enclosure. The old copper caps used lead azide as a primary charge. If they ever were exposed to water, the lead azide could turn into a very sensitive copper azide salt that may detonate just by opening the cap on the tin they were packed in.

 

[dgrigorenko]

Yeah - C4 works great for cooking! Especially when you're cheating a "cold camp..."

It's easiest to just invert a can or your canteen cup overtop of it and let it smother itself to put it out. Give the can a few minutes or so to cool off afterwards, and you'll be fine.

yeah burning C4 also gives of noxious fumes that can cause pretty severe respiratory problems if inhaled. and other issues if ingested. it is an amazingly stable explosive though. you could shoot it all day with FMJ's or Jacketed ammo and it wouldnt do anything, a tracer might do it. as far as the grenade goes, if you hit the blasting cap in the fuse mechanism it is highly likely that it would detonate. but you would have to hit it.