This is in regard to the old blow up the dead whale on the beach video.

Phil asks some questions. My answer:

Pound for pound Boomerite is not much different from what they used. So about 1000 pounds (which is less than what we typically use at Boomershoot). A single rifle bullet would detonate it just fine. If you are using a high BC bullet in a .300 Win Mag (or "better") 1000 yards distant would be possible.

I get requests to blow up all kinds of things. I usually agree to help on one condition--they have to clean up the mess. I almost never hear from them again.

This would be no different. The common perception appears to be that when something is "blown up" it just disappears. Of course this isn't true. Explosives can rip things into very tiny pieces and scatter them but chemical explosives do not destroy matter.