Author Topic: If you blew up your plastic models with firecrackers..... (Read 1935 times)

Drunky · « **Reply #30 on:** November 29, 2002, 08:31:43 PM »

Yeah...you light them and when they start trying to take off you through them at your best friend

Yes, these are the exploding ones...no fun unless they explode

Leslie · « **Reply #31 on:** November 30, 2002, 03:14:45 AM »

Yeah Drunky, I got hit right between the eyes with a bottle rocket one time during a "war." Bounced off my head...didn't hurt a bit LOL.

Do you remember the Roman candles they had a few years ago that shot out explosive fire balls? Now those were cool. They shot out a ball like a regular Roman candle, except it exploded like a a cherry bomb. Kinda powerful...only remember them on the market that one year.

You could make a very effective bazooka by fitting 4 of these in the end of a 2" diameter length of copper pipe (about 4' long.) There were about 40 rounds all together, and they lasted about 3 minutes or so. Their firing rate was about the same as a Roman candle.

These were made in China, and I only remember them being available that one year (1985?) Shoulda stockpiled 'em.

Les

capt. apathy · « **Reply #32 on:** November 30, 2002, 05:41:48 AM »

ya, we were morons about that stuff too.
1. large firecrackers (not m-80's just the larger legal ones) covered in wax for the frag effect (felt alot like being punched if hit with a large chunk up-close)
2. 'bazooka'- 4" pvc pipe with the rocked launch rail set up inside, use the fireworks rockets that where about the size of the small models, dump the display and load with custom payloads, also remove the fuse and use rocket ignitors and a 9v battery for precise firing (not very accurate but lots of fun)
3. trip wires set to electronicly ignite one bottle rocket (stick removed), fired into a metal tube filled with many others also stick removed. the effect was sorta rocket propelled claymore. the first rocket lights all the others firing them for quit an effect.
4. all this with bb/pellet guns too (including one .22cal air riffle with a very spendy scope['borrowed' from my friends father], and an 'm-19' (full auto bb-gun, used freon as propelent, add says 3k rpm, didn't seem that fast though)

like I said we were fairly stupid looking back. these 'wars' went on for years in the woods, until one of us lost the proverbial eye. he still has the bb loged against his optic nerve restricting half the vision in his right eye. (who the hell thought mom would be right about that 'gonna lose an eye thing')

was pretty scary for awhile there. found out first hand that the county sherrif looks at a bb-gun wound as a gunshot wound. and I felt fairly stupid as they looked at our 'arsenal' and ask us "what the hell were you thinking"

as my friend was still getting checked out and everybody else bailed (so it was just me taking him for help), leaving me to come up with an explaination. the best I could come up with was "it seemed like the thing to do at the time"

sling322 · « **Reply #33 on:** November 30, 2002, 10:19:37 AM »

We used to buy firecrackers in Mexico when I was a kid growing up in deep south Texas. They were great. They were made of newspaper and they were folded into triangles and looked like the little paper footballs that you flick across a table when you used to play table football in elementary school. You talk about powerful little suckers. They came in a variety of sizes....some of them were about 8-10 inches long and stuffed full of gunpowder with a little fuse sticking out of the corner. We used to light 'em and flick them off a little bridge in the neighborhood into a small river. The dropoff from the bridge to the water was about 20feet and when those suckers would explode, it would send water up higher than the bridge. After two or three of 'em you couldnt hear anything anymore due to the ringing in your ears.