it really makes you wonder,, yep I remember running around in the bush as a kid in africa,, amonst all the wild animals,, even had to run from a few too!!! and the billy carts less brakes,,, huummmmm,, heheheh memories of near self destruction, thru making pipe canons, and cracker guns etc,,,, geez just make and fire a lemon canon today,,, you'd end up in a secure terrorist prison hehehehehhe

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I can remember being up and gone just after breakfast and not showing up til dinner. Parents never even asked where I was. Ramblin, Hikin, fooling around with my friends...

Im still tryin to figure out if the world isnt as safe as it used to be or if I just saw too much of it...

I concur with that statement

i was born in 81, and an awful lot of this stuff still applies. i remember playing war with the neighbor kids with actual BB guns and giving each other welts with the things.

you'd never see that now.

We had two gangs of armys for the BB gun wars with almost 16 BB guns. We all wore safty glases some of the time,shot out at least 20 windows in our own house.

Rember only two pumps in the Benjamin just to make it fair.

DPL 880 Muzzle exit velocity 880FPS. Fastest they made at the time. I still have it.
I always put in an "extra special" pump for Rich....

heheheheh and street lights,,,, ummmm is this some kind of LAMPS revenge on us,,

spending our lives now, nurturing these beasties that we previously snuffed, with one single shot to the bright spot,, mmmmm

We used to drop large rocks on top of CO2 cartridges.

Not the brigthest thing to do, but boy did they make a BANG !

Hmmm, CO2 canisters, let’s just say that they make great depth charges.

DJ

OMG!!! I suspect we're all cut from the same bolt of cloth!?!?

One of my favorites is taking a standard firecracker and waterproofing the fuse with plain, old masking tape. They pack quite a punch under water.

As for "CO2" cartridges - I'd allow my acquaintances to empty them of the contents and get boxes of them for free. Most of the users couldn't figure out why I wanted the empties. Beat the heck out of picking them up in the high-school parking lot and under the stadium bleachers. I'll bet I still have a cardboard box of them in a drawer somewhere.

CO2 cartridge + Black Powder + Model Rocket Ignitor Kit = Broken Window + Broken Sliding Glass Door + VERY flat tin can + 3 kids with ringing ears. ... I have fond memories of my childhood.

a bit Off Topic ? ...

my sister-in-laws & husband are visiting this weekend... besides getting in some golf, we plan to make a potato cannon. i've seen a few, but never actually built one before. anyone have a simple plan (or recipe) for making something up in a couple of hours ? i've seen some plans, but some get pretty elaborate for such a simple thing... my thinking is some PVC tubing with a cleanout on one end... hole in the bottom... and some hairspray... should schedule 40 do the trick ?

gs

http://www.advancedspuds.com/plans.htm

I prefer the "polish cannon" - cans taped together, tennis ball, gasoline, lighter, endless fun.

oh dear Duracko,, you have just submitted plans for

WMD's

now is that polish (some new way to polish a car ''polish'')or poland's WMD's

That's the one. I am one and grew up in a small coal-town chock full of folks from that general region.

hehehehhe ahhh I see WMD,,,, CO2 from copious quantities of coal