A Grandson and his years long significant other are having a baby.

Well, some of her friends insisted on and talked future Mom into a Gender Reveal Party. This Sunday afternoon. My wife and I are expected to go.

Just today I find out it will consist of the Dad shooting and blowing up 4 pounds of Tannerite with chalk of the appropriate color. Apparently it is a thing... you can even buy kits for the purpose, but I am told usually 2 pounds are used.

I know zero about Tannerite, never witnessed any blown up.

Uggg. Just how big a bang are we talking about.

There are other houses around but not side by side quite.

I told him I thought it was a really bad idea and at a minimum he should let the local law agencies know ahead of time to quell the almost certain calls from concerned neighbors. But then we don't know how they would react.

He said they had done this before at this location more than once... just with a lesser charge.

Is this as bad an idea as I think?

2 Maps of the area, location circled in red, scale in top LEFT... I think.

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Uggg. Just how big a bang are we talking about.

It's loud.

I wouldn't do it there. They are going to have a lot of pissed off neighbors.

I would confidentiality put money on cops showing up.

It’s a high explosive with a detonation velocity approaching 20,000 feet per second. 4 pounds is likely going to get some attention. I’d probably stick with the 2 pounds if I were to use the product. Is it legal to shoot rifles in that area? Do people normally shoot rifles? If it’s an out of the ordinary occurrence, I’d at least give the neighbors a heads up. The best suggestion would definitely be to do it someplace else.

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Originally posted by cparktd:
scale in top right.

lmao that's top left dude.

4lbs of tannerite is gonna make a real big boom.
I can't wait to hear the results.
Tell the cops we all say hi!

No personal experience, but the Tannerite brand of products appears to sell targets between 1/2 pound and 2 pounds. The 2 pound target says to place a minimum of 200 yards away. The baby reveal package they sell is a 1 pound package.

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Originally posted by creslin:

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Originally posted by cparktd:
scale in top right.

lmao that's top left dude.

LOL! I'm claiming the image got flipped in uploading and/or posting...
That's my story and I'm sticking into it!

Will correct the post! Thanks.

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Originally posted by honestlou:
No personal experience, but the Tannerite brand of products appears to sell targets between 1/2 pound and 2 pounds. The 2 pound target says to place a minimum of 200 yards away. The baby reveal package they sell is a 1 pound package.

They recommend 100 yards per pound

This whole idea of gender reveal is stupidity. It is just plain dumb, real dumb.

How about a couple pinatas?

Other than that I got nothing

Four pounds in anything even remotely resembling a “neighborhood” would probably be ungood. That’s a big boom, and it only takes one Karen to start a chain reaction of stupid that could cause problems.

I ended up having to charge on a guy who did two pounds on a back road that was still technically inside city limits, just due to the sheer number of 911 calls. We were able to go with “unlawful discharge” on a muni code, but that could have gone way worse. So depending on your jurisdiction, I might recommend caution…

Bill R

I vote no. I vote HELL no.

While I can't see the topography very well, that still doesn't even look like the greatest area for any shooting. It looks pretty flat from the street view. Even though it is just outside Shelbyville (I grew up in Colubmbia), which is not a huge city, there are plenty of residences nearby. That may not even be outside the city limits.

If they really want to do something, find a proper location, such as a range where it is allowed or a VERY large acreage of private property with good backstops. I've helped out at a similar event with colored smoke fireworks that would come with far less risk than this situation.

A guy here in New Hampshire used 80 (yes that’s 8-0) pounds in a gender reveal. It generated complaints miles away across multiple towns. Some folks even reported cracked foundations as a result.

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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

If a person (or couple) are so easily influenced by peer pressure to do such stupid shit, they will follow such a path many times in their future and will have a storehouse full of regrets later in life.

I skipped such foolish things, took some heat and hate from others at the time, and still to this day I have no regrets for doing so.

If it were me, I would be busy scrubbing a toilet, picking up dog poop in the yard, getting a root canal, or some other similar thing that day...

That is to close to shoot a rifle and to close for 4 lbs of tannerite.

I have shot a lot of tannerite over the years, all at a 500 acre range.

Used 3 lbs in January to blow up two deer carcass after we processed them. Shot from 200 yards, we felt a very strong shockwave.

There was nothing left of the carcasses except what was raining down. There was an 18” deep hole in the extremely hard South Texas dirt and rock.

DON’T DO IT THERE.

I'm also a little disturbed by the fact that the maker of the product offers a specific "package" for this purpose.

There appears to be two fairly built-up areas flanking the detonation site. If 2 lbs. is a "normal" usage, twice as much may actually cause property damage. Detonating it by shooting it with rifles is just as if not more dangerous there. Even if you aim at the area between and beyond the homes, how do you know there isn't a hiker or similar person out there? Can't you at least rig a Wile E. Coyote-style plunger detonator or something? You can have a perfectly fine, festive get-together without this damned foolishness.

I say go with 8 lbs just so everyone in the tristate area knows the sex.

You know that shooting range used by the Pawn Stars guys to shoot cannons and explode things? That is where it should be done.

That’s going to be LOUD! Be prepared to have a visit from the local PD because neighbors are going to call.

If it’s 100% legal in your area/place etc. you might wanna call the local PD to let them know date and time to ward off some complaints.

Be sure to post the videos here. And maybe a copy of the police report as well. Oh yeah, a copy of the damage report on broken windows would be awesome.

My sympathies to you for having a grandson with such poor judgement.