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It probably runs on "Strike Anywhere" matches? Hard to find now, got to get a ways from the city.
We used to make match guns out of the old spring loaded clothes pins that would light a sulfur tipped match when you shot it.
It probably runs on "Strike Anywhere" matches? Hard to find now, got to get a ways from the city.
We used to make match guns out of the old spring loaded clothes pins that would light a sulfur tipped match when you shot it.
Black Cat firecrackers stuffed into a 30.06 brass, and propped up on a forked stick... It's a wonder I can still count to 10 without unzipping
We did something along those lines. We would pack an empty .30-06 full of paper match heads, stuffing them in as tight as we could. Then we'd strap the cartridge down on top of a toy 'pirate' pistol cap gun in place of the barrel. Next, point it away and hold a lighter up to the end of the cartridge and BOOM! Huge report. We did that numerous times (I was never stupid enough to be the one holding the pistol ) up until my friend forgot to tighten the strap on one shot. The cartridge launched straight back into his face and just glanced off his left eye socket. All he got was a nasty cut out of the deal. Considering he was really willing to try anything, it's amazing he's still alive today. I was more of the stand back and watch him hurt himself kind of buddy
Cool I want one too!
Takes me back to my childhood when we would make little matchstick "rockets" using paper matches, tin foil and a paper clip as a launch ramp. Made tons of those growing up. Those eventually led to 2-liter gasoline rockets that were even more fun
The PONS did a few "flybys" when you were a kid, yeah?
(PONS= Process Of Natural Selection)
Two words.....Salt peter/sugar.
Dad had on of those 2' long Carbide canons. I still have a tightly sealed bottle of calcium carbonate rock, and the miners lamp that uses it. 'course the guys in the bike shop I worked in used a balloon and the stuff that comes from calcium carbonate..........Once.
No doubt. Especially when we started building pipe bombs in high school and blowing them up out in the boonies. Amazing what you can build with commonly available materials and a little ballsy ingenuity at the time - and that was all pre-internet - we just figured that stuff out for ourselves. We had a lot of fun with FFFF black powder.
Yea, good times when a kid could have some fun without being labeled a terrorist and sentenced as an adult.
We had a lot of fun with dry ice and 2-liters. The best one was filling a 10 round paintball container filled with what we pulled out of a bag of m80's. Gave it a good long 5' fuse, dropped it in a hole that a 4x4 post had recently vacated and thru a 1" 8x4 piece of plywood on top.
We were starting to consider it was a dud when all of a sudden 10,000 toothpicks went a good 100' in the air and then came down everywhere. Gotta love growing up in the boonies