Load For Soda Bottle

[smokemjoe]

I have DOMs, soda can mortar with a 11 in. barrel, I know its to long but sure works great, I just found that a Snapple 16.9 oz- 500 ml. Red Tea bottle, fits with .100 windage or .050 per side clearness, What do you put into the bottle to fill it up, or is this safe to use, Thanks- Joe- Add on
  These are plastic bottles and are about  1/2 in. below the muzzel when loaded. Thanks

[Double D]

I have DOMs, soda can mortar with a 11 in. barrel, I know its to long but sure works great, I just found that a Snapple 16.9 oz- 500 ml. Red Tea bottle, fits with .100 windage or .050 per side clearness, What do you put into the bottle to fill it up, or is this safe to use, Thanks- Joe

Is the bottle plastic or glass?

Plastic- fill it with cement. Keep you bore clean so you don't hang one up.   Reduce charge for max significantly and work up, especially if any part of the bottle sticks out of the bore.  It's better it it doesn't.


Don't shot glass.

Nothing Dom makes is to long.

[Cat Whisperer]

I go the cheap route and use water.  I use a smaller charge, as the water transfers the pressure to the sides (lubrication will help some too).  I wonder if at some charge one would have a real obstruction.  I'm not about to try - when the scrape-marks BEGIN to show up I know to stop increasing the charge.

More difficult to do is to fill the bottle with concrete.  It has the advantage of being uncompressable, hence windage is maintained and a stiffer charge can be used.

[Victor3]

 Ice is good in cans. I freeze at home and put them in a small cooler with a hunk of dry ice until ready to use.

 I don't know about ice in a plastic bottle but it should be fine as long as it doesn't swell up.

[Cat Whisperer]

Coooool!       (pun intended)

[smokemjoe]

 When you use water, will come to pieces or stay intack  in the air.

[Double D]

When you use water, will come to pieces or stay intack  in the air.

My experience with shooting liquid filled projectiles is that the burst at the muzzle.  Tim says he shoots them, perhaps he is using light target loads.

[Cat Whisperer]

When you use water, will come to pieces or stay intack  in the air.

Start with a rediculusly low charge.  Work up until the sides of the bottle just touch the sides (observe the scrape marks when you pick it up).

We were firing these at 100-150 yards, high angle (60-75 degrees) from the long barrel mortar (see 3AANRVMACS thread).

It would rip the labels off.

I've never fractured one.  (I have blown the alumimum can off the concrete slug inside though).