Sheriff's Office: Loud Booms Caused by 'Legal to Possess Explosive Targets'
Oconee County Fire and Rescue and deputies investigated reports of explosions in the Cooper Gin Road area Wednesday evening.
Loud booms heard in the Cooper Gin Road area Wednesday evening around 8:45 p.m. were caused by people shooting "legal to possess explosive target(s)," according to the Oconee County Sheriff's Office. Deputies and Fire and Rescue personnel responded to the area around 8:50 p.m. to investigate the source of the noise. The following Nixle alert was sent out: Sheriff & fire units are responding to reports of multiple explosions in the Cooper Gin Road area. No source or exact location for the reported explosions has been ascertained at this time. Within an hour, the Sheriff's Office posted on its Facebook Page this update: The source has been located. Some folks were shooting a product called tannerite....a legal to possess explosive target…
PapaT
10:51 am on Sunday, November 18, 2012
We live on Colham Ferry @ Antioch Church and thought there had been a bad wreck. Everyone in the house heard the boom. We looked outside and there was nothing going on. To me it sounded like a clap of thunder. more ›