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For out at my buddy's ranch. got several M80 size ones. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/wvCQX4wn/5555.jpg) I bet those are quite a bit more rowdy than they look.
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My buddy's dad had a fireworks stand, it was on the north edge of Alice Tx where they owned a hotel on Hwy 281, we would have bottle rocket fights. We would shoot them out of 4ft pvc tubes at each other, I got Allan good one time on the belly, it was perfect timing it exploded right on contact and gave him a nasty burn.
On another occasion doing the same I shot at paul but missed and hit a DPS Troopers cars passenger window as he was driving down 281, Luckily Allans Dad was a retired LEO and managed to keep us from getting arrested.
Then there was time we were cruising down 6th st in Austin throwing rockets and other stuff out the car window. We used BB guns to aim bottle rockets. Slide them down the muzzle and bam - you got sights and a shoulder stock to launch them. Go up to the cottage as kids - send someone out in a canoe on the lake and try and "sink" them. We made bottle rocket guns out of galvanized pipe. It was probably 3/8ths. Weld on a piece for a handle. Friend had a mortar shell shooter he made out of PVC. It shot the shells you fired out of paper tubes. He used a 9v batters to light them off somehow.
I am MAGA.
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For out at my buddy's ranch. got several M80 size ones. If ya wanna big bang. Step it up to schedule 80 and run a piece of 1/2 inch all thread up the middle and bolt the caps on, use thick fender washers or steel plate under the nuts. Otherwise, it'll just blow a cap off. Don't transport them, just build them and blow um, ATF might get interested in them.
Padded VA Hospital Rooms for $1000 Alex My ignoree,s will never be Rock Stars on 24 hr campfire.....Like me!!!! What are psychotic puppet hunters?
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Been too long to remember if it was M-80s or Cherry Bombs that my older cousins would drop down a fence-post pounder, followed by a D battery. Would penetrate the side of the barn.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
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BigDave39355: As a child (in the 1950's) I remember buying "Cherry Bombs" - do they still sell those these days?
I remember they really blew stuff up.
Thank goodness I still have all my fingers.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy Yep. We bought cherry bombs and M-80 silver salutes by the gross. Lots of fun for us, not so much for the neighbors 😳
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I tied a wheel weight on an M-80 and I took it with us one day when we went out on the Lake. I lit it and threw it overboard. A couple of seconds later it sounded like someone had hit the bottom of the boat with a hammer. 😮 Powerful.
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Got a bunch of 1/4 sticks of dynamite in Mexico years ago.Those fuggers make a pretty good bang.
Its all right to be white!!
Stupidity left unattended will run rampant
Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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We would shoot crows out of trees at night. They would move from one grove to another when we shot. If they landed in a deserted grove, fine. If they alit in a grove on an occupied place, we would toss an M-80 of the car on the road nearby, and they would move.
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Guy around prolly has 6 or 8 of the revival tents in several counties..
Hires someone to run each one for the 2 weeks in open.
Live on site 24x7 in a run down camper. 😂🤣
Our small town has a pretty decent fireworks show.
Pro level fireworks.
Put on by the chamber of commerce and local business.
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Shame you cant buy 80s or cherry bombs ar anything like that anymore in America. Well, legally produced ones anyway. They have been completely banned for some time now. Love the nanny state
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Campfire Oracle
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Anyone else use seal bombs?
POW POW 💥
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Been too long to remember if it was M-80s or Cherry Bombs that my older cousins would drop down a fence-post pounder, followed by a D battery. Would penetrate the side of the barn. LOL ![[Linked Image from warhistoryonline.com]](https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2021/09/bazooka-training.jpg)
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I'm fairly certain that you need an explosives license from the alphabet people to mix up more than 50 milligrams of flash powder. I may be wrong though.
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As dry as we have been, and as many big fires as we've had - I sure hope none around our state!
The whole damn state is a tinderbox!
I WILL miss the shows, however.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
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