Rick

Very cool!

Rick.....that is one of the coolest shots I've seen in a while.

How did you build that bottle bomb??

We have GOT to have one of those at our next Trad shoot!

I gotta say, Rick... I don’t know if I’m more impressed by the shooting, or by how fast you can walk!

That is beyond impressive

I'm not going to lie. I practiced this shot on an empty uncharged bottle for 3 afternoons about an hour each. I had a lot of misses, but they were near misses, and I beat the snot out of that bottle on a lot of the shots, but could not puncture it due to the field point shoulders, and the angle the arrows were coming in. The bottle is just to light weight to keep from pushing away.

I'm pretty good at holding a vertical line, and have always been good at envisioning an imaginary spot to shoot at.

Once I figured out the particulars (including using different points), I knew I could get it done in just a few shots, and even my misses would be close & in the video, so I charged up a new bottle, and gave er a go.

Rick

Very cool! So awesome! Thanks for sharing!

When I used my MegaBoom bottle charger a couple years ago (not at 100yds of course!) the arrows were usually destroyed. Even my carbons. :(

I guess I've gotta try it again! I forgot how fun it was seeing and hearing the explosions! Keeps my neighbors on their toes too!

CD

Awesome shooting !

Too bad arrows don’t go fast enough to detonate tannerite. :^)

Rick,great vid.

What was in that bottle???

GF, that was a 2 liter coke bottle with blue pop line chalk, and 90 PSI of air pressure in it.

Makes a nice little pop when you puncture it. 8^)

Rick

Great shooting Rick I really enjoyed that.

Sweet!

Now that was a neat video.

So how did you pressurize it? Looks like maybe a valve stem anchored in the bottle cap?

@ GF - Yep, valve stem in the cap.

Rick

Very neat Rick!!

Deno

That is impressive very cool

I find my backyard bag target practice very boring after watching this.

69#...Why?...Because You CAN!!! :)...Your a Stallion My Friend!...Great Shot/Video!!!...4finger

I like the way the bottle seemed to shake as you walked away. - John

That was bad to the bone!! Thanks Rick!

Dang Rick. That was awesome. Lance

Cool.

Fantastic shooting! Awesome video.

I would have been there all afternoon trying to hit it.

And a nice change of pace to some recent threads :)

Awesome Rick ! Thanks for sharing! Ken

it wasn't fair chase...he had a game camera set up and had that bottle patterned; he knew it was going to be there at that time. ;-)

Fun video and impressive shooting! Thanks for sharing!

Fun stuff Rick! Thanks ! I'd be scared to death putting 90lbs in the bottle. LOL!

Great shot!

I won one of those gizmo's at a shoot about 4 years ago but a little hesitant on using it. I know they make a loud noise when the bottle is struck.

No snap sbootery harmed. :-) Fine shooting.

That’s pretty cool!

You forgot to say don't try this at home. :) Jawge

That's Purdy slick Rick. Was wondering what target you had in mind when you cut out for a 100 yard. Wouldn't guessed that in a million years !

I might be able to make the shot. Heres the problem: No way I could see that bottle at 100 yds upon raising a bow. I would need to have something the size of a trash can hanging from a tree to aim at (off Camera) that corresponded to dropping an arrow into the bottle. You know, a little bigger aiming aid. And, lots of arrows and lots of time, and lots of editing.

Not sure its ethical to take a 100 yard shot at a bottle, but you killed it clean.;) Nice Shooting!

Cool!

Awesome. thanks for sharing.

So I guess it's true everything goes good with a Coke :-). Great shooting thanks for the video. I knew there would be a 100yd shot coming up.

I don't want to have a shootout with you, that's impressive

Far out heavy and solid!

You’ll have to do a valve-stem install build-along!

Slick trick Rick! Fun, breaks up the monotony. And you get to here it go BANG!

Should also warn if your not going to do this at home, then definatly don't use a can of electronics duster and spray into a bottle with the can upside down for a few seconds cap the bottle and as that super cold gas warms up the bottle will become very pressurized. for sure don't do something like that

Heck I’d be afraid to pump up a bottle to 90 lbs after seeing that! Course I’m getting a little soft these days. Great shot and video. Enjoyed it.

I just wanna know how to install the stem. Thinking I might be able to glue in a valve from a bicycle tube.

But I might just dial down the PSI to where it’s less likely to blow up my arrow..

Good shooting Rick - looks like fun. Really cool video!

Every now and then a thread just makes it all worth while. Great video Rick!

Good shooting, fun to watch.

I bet most folks couldn't hit the bottle with a gun great shooting,sounds kinda like my target at home when hit by my Robertson lol

Excellent! Thanks for sharing. Matthew

Damned impressive Rick

There has been a few folks asking just exactly how I aimed for this shot.

In this picture, the blue dot represents the level the bottle was setting in my vision, and the green dot represents where I was looking, and pointing/aiming the arrow. Yep, way up there.

Like I said in an earlier post, I practiced the shot on three different afternoons for about one hour each.

On the first afternoon I tried several different aiming methods:
I started with Gaping off the riser, and switched my 3 under hold anchor from index finger at corner of mouth to an under the chin anchor, and even shot split finger that way some.

It didn't take me long (first afternoon) to realize I was most confident, comfortable, and consistently accurate with my normal 3 under hold, and anchoring index finger at the corner of my mouth/nose on the fletch, and simply aiming with the arrow tip, and aiming it high.

At that point it was only a matter of figuring out how high to hold, and practice steadily holding that vertical line at that height.

There's nothing to reference in that sky, so it all boiled down to seeing the vertical line in my imagination, and seeing an imaginary spot in the sky to aim at along that vertical line.

It was fun (very fun) to do from the start of the practicing/learning all the way to the conclusion. I can tell already, that my shooting has improved at the closer distances a little bit.

Rick

Don’t know for sure how Rick did this, but there is a gizmo sold for about 25 or 30 bucks that uses a bike tire pump to pressurize a bottle like this. But I think the bottle remains attached to the gizmo.

MP

you can easily drill a hole in the cap of a 2 liter and pull a valve stem thru it. (videos on you tube) Pump bottle to 90 PSI and shoot

Recommend tying a string to the valve stem so you can find it after the boom. Have fun

And please wear safety glasses while pumping up bottle !

That's inspiring, Rick. I've been trying to figure out how to aim at longer distances. When I raise the bow the arrow obscures the point I'm aiming at, so I can't focus on the spot I'm trying to hit. I tried canting the bow a lot and holding it lower, that helped some but still not a good solution. I think you showed me what to do. Don't try to focus on the target, focus on a spot above it!

Thanks.

That's some very impressive shooting Rick! I'm not even sure I'd be able to see a small bottle 100 yards away lol. Good stuff, enjoyed the video!

After losing my youtube account, I no longer had this video hosted online anywhere.

A few days ago I had several requests to resurrect it here, so he it is.

Enjoy.

Rick

“That's some very impressive shooting Rick! I'm not even sure I'd be able to see a small bottle 100 yards away…”

Oh, come ON - that bottle wasn’t THAT small!!

2 ltr Matt. :-)

And, Thanks.

Rick

I remember that well, Mr. Rick. Well done.

I'm anxious to do it again with my new super hook limbs when I get them here.

Rick

I should get/whip up one of those pressurization thingies… seems like it oughtta be possible to make one from a bike tube and a little silicone caulk/adhesive…. Or maybe that’s already in this thread and I’m remembering what I read but not recalling where I read it. That seems to happen to me pretty regularly….

I’m not sure I have a place to stand that’s 100, but I can definitely get to 80.

Don’t imagine I’ll get there in as few shots, but it seems like I oughtta be able to connect within the first dozen….

Ends….

Of however many arrows I can stuff into the quiver….

OK, yup. I definitely heard it here first…

Enjoyed

Awesome. Rick you the Man. Odd how the arrow stopped right there. >>>----> Ken

[[[ Odd how the arrow stopped right there. ]]]

Only thing I can figure is the concussion from the explosion stole any trajectory it had left in it.

Did you notice how it wrinkled up the vanes? They were straight & smooth before the shot.

Rick

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