Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
I generally punch paper, yes. But also shoot random junk like phones, hard drives, fire extinguishers, propane tanks.....etc. Whatever we have lying around.
I just saw this post. My wife's desktop has taken a dump after 9 years of daily use. So today we're going to pick her up a new one. That will leave me now with 3 trash desktop computers in the closet. My wife wants rid of them because they're taking up too much room. I don't want to take them to a recycler because of what's on the hard drives. Too much information. So I want to destroy them. I think the easiest and best way to go about this, is to take them out into the desert, (along with a couple of contractors trash bags to clean up the aftermath), and have at them with a 12 ga. and a few boxes of 000 Buck and some rifled slugs. Hard drives can be exceedingly tough to destroy. But I think a 12 bore would get the job done, and have some fun doing it as well. I'm just going to wait for it to cool off around here.
Back when I got my .50 BMG we went out into the desert with it. I had a full 20 pound propane tank I didn't need because we bought a new gas grill, and it came with a new one with quick disconnect fittings, not POL. So I set it out on a large rock about 200 yards away, and put a round of A.P.I.T. through it. I wished I had a smart phone at the time to video it. Flames shot out of that thing like a W.W. II flame thrower! I still have around 150 rounds of A.P.I.T. .50 BMG rounds. I'm saving them for shooting at reactive targets. They have zero problem punching straight through a 1", 320 Stainless Steel plate at 100 yards. What they don't punch through, they pretty much burn through.