The latest home improvement project was the replacement of the toilet in our master bedroom. The quandry, what to do with the old one? Too big to fit in the trash can. I'm too cheap to pay $16.00 for a run to the dump for one item. A sledge hammer could break it up into smaller pieces that would fit in the trach can and be stress reducing. Shooting it with a .340 Weatherby Magnum would break it up into even smaller pieces and be more stress reducing...

So off to the desert with a .340 Weatherby Magnum and an old toilet bowl.



Why the blue tarp, it will make sense at the end.


First round I aimed for dead center on the tank. It sheared the mounting bolts off as well as shattering the tank.


Second round I aimed right for the front lip of the bowl. It pretty much vaporized the bowl but left some of the base.


Third round I took out what was left of the base.


Closer view of the carnage. I was convinced there had to be more scattered around the desert, it just didn't look like enough porcelain to make a toilet. But using the old blue tarp, it was easy to clean up by folding up the tarp and leaving all of the shattered porcelain inside. When I picked it up, the weight alone confirmed there was a complete toilet bowl inside of it.


For those concerned about the environment and the desert, a view of the site after I was done. While not pristine, I left it cleaner than when I found it. Unfortunately a lot of shooters don't share the same concerns so I packed out an extra bag of trash to help make up for them.

All in all, a fun day and a hell of a lot more fun than breaking it up with a sledgehammer. I was expecting cracked and broken porcelain, I wasn't expecting just how explosive and pulverizing it would be.

Nice shooting. But you could have just flushed it down the toilet. Oh, wait . . . Nevermind.

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Guess maybe you shot the poop out of it?

You ruined a perfectly good flower pot!

I'm not sure that is legal in all states.......

Check local laws first.

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Lee Jarrett

Did you use enough gun? Nothing more dangerous than a wounded John.

thats great, now all we need is a claw foot bath tub, i wonder how many shots that would take...

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George Jamison

Pretty soon PETPC (people for the ethical treatment of porcelain conveniences) will be picketing your house.

Great pictures. It made me wonder how far off the toilet I would have to hold to counteract the flinch I would effect after the first couple of shots in that caliber, so good shooting also.

You probably couldn't afford the ammo. Claw foot tubs are cast iron, they won't shatter like a commode.

Its about time you got that toilet out of your "master bedroom".

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Miss Buddies crsides & fat tom

The other day I read a thread about a guy doing a remodel.

To remove the cast iron tub, he broke it up with a sledge hammer.

Surprised me. Seems like a great way to manage something
that unwieldy.

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I think the only proper way to do it is with Tannerite!

YouTube - 1 lb Tannerite - Toilet

A small child in China is crying right now. He still has to poop in a little hole in the floor, and you blew up a king's thrown just for fun. So sad.

Well, I guess despite every inclination I have, I cannot say your shooting skills stink!

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1601 (ret)

I had always wondered what it meant to "take a pot shot" at something. Now I know.

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Southern Conservative

Put it in the front yard and plant flowers in it.

You should have used it to grow organic tomatoes on your front porch.

yashua

Reminds me of a funny toilet story....

In 1995, we bought a small two bedroom, one bath house (900 square feet) in Knotts Island, N.C., a coastal community about an hours drive from Virginia Beach.

We had to replace the toilet, and found a plumber in Virginia who gave us a special deal on a toilet he could no longer sell in Virginia, an old fashioned "Three Gallon Flusher" that would not meet code in Virginia, as everything had to be low flow, one gallon per flush, etc. No such code in North Carolina at the time. He said he'd drive down and install it for $80 or so...

When he went to remove the toilet, the old mounting bolts broke, so he smashed the bowl with a hammer to remove the old toilet. Went to put the new toilet in, the new tank woudln't fit the bowl. "No problem, I'll bring you the tank tomorrow, you do have another bathroom, right?'

"Nope, this is a one bathroom house!" He had to drive back to Virginia Beach, get the right tank and return, poor guy worked all day to get rid of that toilet he couldn't sell in Virginia...

I know a guy who went to a local unofficial shooting area by a state forest and proceeded to shoot at an old tub with his rifle. People bring all kinds of junk there to dump and to shoot at. He couldn't understand what the zip sound was when he shot. Thought it was some kind of echo. Until he went to examine the tub when he was done. The line of lead around the tub from one side to the other cleared up his confusion. The zip sound was his rounds flying past his head. Yikes!!

I believe he learned his lesson.

I really enjoyed that. Nice photojournalism.

Glad to see that you took Robert Ruark's advice to heart.