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Old 09-23-2012, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Grimace View Post
No, not combat for me. Underground mining and blasting "rounds". Still, the blasts were fairly sizable, and I while I was "technically" at a safe distance, when close to 700 pounds(around 300 kilos)of explosives went off, it still had quite an impressive effect on me. I could only imagine what it would be like being closer to the blast and within range of the flying debris.
Ah, underground blasting. I've never done any of that. To be honest I don't think I'd want to. Those 300kg of explosives must have been in smaller rounds on delay, surely? That's a hell of a blast all in one go. Don't get me wrong, here in Australia on the iron ore mines they let off tonnes of the stuff at a time but it's in a ripple, quarter-second or so delays between lines of blast holes.
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