Hello !!

I have many times wanted to take a walk down to the lake in wintertime and fantazised about shooting with one of the abovementioned calibers,,to see the effect,,impact these guns have upon huge ice-blocks as thereare many of those in this cold country !!
Imagine a 270 gr.nosler fired at 3200 fps to hit a huge and thick iceblock !!
Anyone tried this sick idea in practise ?

Similer but different... I took my 416 down to the gravel pit after work one day and set up some stones of different size in a row. It would shatter a rock the size of my moniter. I like the ice idea though.

just dont shoot a hole in the ice you are standing on...

fired a 270, a 30-30, and a 45-70 at 6" thick ice at deer camp one year as we were packing up. Funny thing, the 270 made the biggest slash, but all made roughly the same size hole.

Bit hard to get ice over here, we only use it in our softdrinks, and I have not been that desprate

Actually I used once a 12ga slug on a mass of thick ice, frozen to the side of a cliff. The results were awsome, there was a hole about 30cm wide reaching all the way to the rock, maybe 40cm deep.

I hit a rock with my 30-06 and it blew it up. I'm thinking ice would look pretty cool.

We used to shoot into clay banks along the river.

It was fun to watch huge chunks of clay spall out of the cliffs when hit with the .25-06.

Dave, when I lived in Thompson we used to go down to the ice dam during spring break up (before the dams there was always a spring ice dam) and shoot at the big chunks just for fun. Never saw much differance in what happened to the ice when shot, no matter the caliber, but our caliber choices were pretty limited back then (30-30, 303, 30-06, 308, 7 RM, 8 Mauser). It was a lot of fun though. - Dan

I've done this a lot!!

And YES!! It's as fun as you think. The only thing i miss when I'm doing this, is a videocamera.

A tip:
DONT stand to close with your eyes open!!!!!
(I KNOW!!)

Last Saturday I worked over a block of concrete construction debris that measures at least 4' square. I was shooting a 25-06 and a 300 Weatherby with 180 partitions at 3200. The 25 would scratch off a 5-6" chips but that 300 would pull off a 8-10 circle of chips at least 2" deep and leave a big hole drilled in the middle that you could about loose your pinky in. Lots of dust and a really big whack. It was really a lot more fun with the big gun. I bet cinder blocks would make excellent long-range targets.

Floating block ice sounds really fun.