Destructo6
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I forgot paintball. It's a ton of fun to run around, shoot your opponents, get shot yourself, and be able to laugh about it later. Since I live near SC Village, it's my main field.
If it bangs, twangs, pops or snaps...
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swampgator
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I just picked up a wrist rocket slingshot today. Thought about getting a Daisy air gun, but decided to stay cheap.
Gator
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DON'T get me started on this topic !!!
Ok ok...At fourteen years old I made a rocket launcher that fired four mosquitos (model rockets) with an explosive payload. I tossed out all the balsa wood parts, replaced them with fabricated aluminum, stuffed the engine compartment with a C single stage rocket (as opposed to the anemic A) reinforced the frame with chicken wire, and gave them a payload of another ground up engine (similar to blackpowder), and Blackcats.
I tested it once (cost me 15 bucks a shot not to mention several hours to work these puppies up) at a nearby junkyard. One mosquito blew the inside of a broken down 75 Lincoln Continental to pieces
. I shot it from about 30 yards with the door open, it was in the car for about 4 seconds and then... KABOOM ! Never used the thing again, my mom found it and threw it away
. Dangerous and stupid as hell, but FUN FUN FUN !!
Ok ok...At fourteen years old I made a rocket launcher that fired four mosquitos (model rockets) with an explosive payload. I tossed out all the balsa wood parts, replaced them with fabricated aluminum, stuffed the engine compartment with a C single stage rocket (as opposed to the anemic A) reinforced the frame with chicken wire, and gave them a payload of another ground up engine (similar to blackpowder), and Blackcats.
I tested it once (cost me 15 bucks a shot not to mention several hours to work these puppies up) at a nearby junkyard. One mosquito blew the inside of a broken down 75 Lincoln Continental to pieces
riddleofsteel
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when we were kids we used to blow up everthing we thought we could get away with. a cannon made of water pipe that used M-80 firecrackers to drive ball bearings fast enough to shoot holes in the barn (got beat for that stunt). army men and plastic tanks blown to heck with lady finger firecrackers. one day my uncle showed us a trick. we were on my grandfather's farm. he filled and 5 gallon bucket 3/4 full of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. then he went to the tobacco barn and topped off the bucket with fuel oil. he put the lid on and twisted the fuses of three M-80's together with a length of cannon fuse (we had a blackpowder cannon on the place). he put the bucket in a hole under an old stump and strung out the fuse. he put us behind a corn crib 250 yards away and lit the fuse. he came running like heck, we still did not think the thing would do anything. when it blew it lifted the stump out of the hole and a lifted about a ton of dirt and rocks that rained down everywhere. this was in the 60's and we thought it was great fun. i thought about that day when that bomb blew the federal building. we still have that old black powder cannon that shoots half pound bags of black powder or pyrodex and propels beer or soda cans filled with concrete. a great way to bring in the new year or celebrate the 4th of july. ahhh those were the days.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.
Let he that hath no sword sell his garment and buy one. Luke 22-36
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. Song of Solomon 3-8
The man that can keep his head and aims carefully when the situation has gone bad and lead is flying usually wins the fight.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.
Let he that hath no sword sell his garment and buy one. Luke 22-36
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. Song of Solomon 3-8
The man that can keep his head and aims carefully when the situation has gone bad and lead is flying usually wins the fight.
Oh. My. God. Bless me Father, for I have led a sheltered life!
My wife and I have been LOAO at the postings in this thread! Miriam looked at me and said "When I was 10, I blew up my parents laundry hamper." She used a cherry bomb placed in a tin can. Miriam's an Army brat and at the time her father was acting Provost Marshal at the Presidio. Her folks were at the O club, she was babysitting her siblings, and craving some excitement.
My own weapon creation adventures are mundane compared to most. A firecracker cannon (6" length of 3/4" copper pipe, capped at one end with a small hole for the fuse. For ammo, we used seed pods from the bay trees in the area) and little smoke bombs made from phosphorous tipped match heads tightly wrapped in an aluminum foil ball. CAREFULLY cut a small hole in the ball and then throw it on pavement or asphalt.
My own bow was a regular longbow, made of lemon wood with a fiberglass 'spine'. Spent quite a bit of time practicing with it.
I also had one of those 'David' style slings. Timing the release on that sucker is akin to patting your head while moving your other hand in circles over your stomach.
Spud guns. Hmmm... There's PVC in the garage and I KNOW we have some hair spray around here! <G>
Cliff
My wife and I have been LOAO at the postings in this thread! Miriam looked at me and said "When I was 10, I blew up my parents laundry hamper." She used a cherry bomb placed in a tin can. Miriam's an Army brat and at the time her father was acting Provost Marshal at the Presidio. Her folks were at the O club, she was babysitting her siblings, and craving some excitement.
My own weapon creation adventures are mundane compared to most. A firecracker cannon (6" length of 3/4" copper pipe, capped at one end with a small hole for the fuse. For ammo, we used seed pods from the bay trees in the area) and little smoke bombs made from phosphorous tipped match heads tightly wrapped in an aluminum foil ball. CAREFULLY cut a small hole in the ball and then throw it on pavement or asphalt.
My own bow was a regular longbow, made of lemon wood with a fiberglass 'spine'. Spent quite a bit of time practicing with it.
I also had one of those 'David' style slings. Timing the release on that sucker is akin to patting your head while moving your other hand in circles over your stomach.
Spud guns. Hmmm... There's PVC in the garage and I KNOW we have some hair spray around here! <G>
Cliff
" David " sling works for hand grenades too. Not for the amature slinger tho. Directional control takes a lot of practice and you gotta remember " five second fuse all too often burns for three seconds "
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Sam I am, grn egs n packin
Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
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Sam I am, grn egs n packin
Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
My favorite weapon was a can of shaving cream with the nozzle melted over a needle.
I remember harrassing freshmen in high school, and jumping out and pointing the thing at them. They'd be three feet away and say, "Oh, you can't get me with that." And I'd proceed to coat them in a layer of foam even if they were 8 feet away.
We did this at a church retreat too. A group of 8 girls almost nailed us with three buckets full of snow. They all ran except for one. We covered her. She looked like a ghost. She took her glasses off and it looked like a big foam monster with eyes. We were ROTFL. Too bad it was our youth group leader.
I remember harrassing freshmen in high school, and jumping out and pointing the thing at them. They'd be three feet away and say, "Oh, you can't get me with that." And I'd proceed to coat them in a layer of foam even if they were 8 feet away.
We did this at a church retreat too. A group of 8 girls almost nailed us with three buckets full of snow. They all ran except for one. We covered her. She looked like a ghost. She took her glasses off and it looked like a big foam monster with eyes. We were ROTFL. Too bad it was our youth group leader.
Dry Ice bombs!!!!! You take a two liter bottle of pop, crush up some dry ice and without burning (freezing) your hand fill it with about two to two and a half inches of the ice. Add a good ammount of warm water (one inch above the ice). It is best to add a little salt to the water to prevent the water from freezing. Put the cap on tight and run. They are loud as hell!!!
Spud guns are fun too. My best friend and I made one out of abs plastic. Had a 5 inch pipe for a combustion chamber and 12 inches long. We put a screw cap on the end for loading propellant. Then we necked it down to a three inch pipe at 4 feet long. We drilled a hole in the side of the combustion chamber and installed a gas lantern igniter (a little thing that sparks when you trist it.) To test it we went to the railroad tracks under the Narrows Bridge. Pushed a potato down to the combustion chamber and squirted four or five seconds worth of aerosol hairspray in. we wanted to see how far it would go. So we aimed it accross the water at a 30 deg angle. I could not believe how far it went, it went higher than the brige deck and past the first pillar. That is 1/3 a mile!!!
Also if anyone knows some thing better than hair spray let me know.
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"Guns don't kill people the government does", Rusty Shackleford.
http://www.fair.org
Spud guns are fun too. My best friend and I made one out of abs plastic. Had a 5 inch pipe for a combustion chamber and 12 inches long. We put a screw cap on the end for loading propellant. Then we necked it down to a three inch pipe at 4 feet long. We drilled a hole in the side of the combustion chamber and installed a gas lantern igniter (a little thing that sparks when you trist it.) To test it we went to the railroad tracks under the Narrows Bridge. Pushed a potato down to the combustion chamber and squirted four or five seconds worth of aerosol hairspray in. we wanted to see how far it would go. So we aimed it accross the water at a 30 deg angle. I could not believe how far it went, it went higher than the brige deck and past the first pillar. That is 1/3 a mile!!!
Also if anyone knows some thing better than hair spray let me know.
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"Guns don't kill people the government does", Rusty Shackleford.
http://www.fair.org
J
Jeff, CA
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Then there was the time some buddies and I decided to play Admiral and sink a plastic model of the Bismarck in a neighbor's hot tub. Did you know bottle rockets run under water?
Many moons ago my dad and two uncles made a slingshot with an inner tube. Must have looked like something from the Roadrunner cartoons.
Wooden frame in the ground with the tube attached. Took all three of them to cock the thing. The goal was to see how far it would throw a rock. The first shot was the last. It cleared the yard and the garden landing in the neighbor’s garage. The garage was closed it went through the cinder block wall.
Wooden frame in the ground with the tube attached. Took all three of them to cock the thing. The goal was to see how far it would throw a rock. The first shot was the last. It cleared the yard and the garden landing in the neighbor’s garage. The garage was closed it went through the cinder block wall.
Halloween was always dry ice bomb time for us. 2 liters and 20 oz. plastic bottles were the bombs and 'grenades'. We tossed one in our gym during school and went back to class. We sat down and waited for what seemed like forever and thought we hadn't put enough dry ice in, but it finally exploded with enough force to reverberate throughout the school. Everyone thought a bomb had gone off and evacuated the school. The only evidence anyone found (a day later) was a split 2 liter lying in a puddle of water. This was pretty funny at the time, but now doesn't seem so funny. No one ever got caught, but boy were the teachers and security pissed.
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CHEMNCO917
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just remembered another one...
Bufferin bottles with the thin plastic caps,,
cut an X slit in the cap, and fill it with carbide pellets.....
put the cap on and throw it in the lake/water/pool.. and after a few seconds/minutes (depending on the size of the slit)
KA_BOOMMMMMMM
if in a pool... run like hell because the concussion collapsis the sidewalls
OH yeah.....
My bother had one in his back pocket and went into the house to go to the bathroom.. well... one fell out of his pocket while he WAS STILL ON THE POT
hahahahahahahahahahah what a mess ....
and HE got in trouble for it....
New stool time!!!!!
Bufferin bottles with the thin plastic caps,,
cut an X slit in the cap, and fill it with carbide pellets.....
put the cap on and throw it in the lake/water/pool.. and after a few seconds/minutes (depending on the size of the slit)
KA_BOOMMMMMMM
if in a pool... run like hell because the concussion collapsis the sidewalls
OH yeah.....
My bother had one in his back pocket and went into the house to go to the bathroom.. well... one fell out of his pocket while he WAS STILL ON THE POT
hahahahahahahahahahah what a mess ....
and HE got in trouble for it....
New stool time!!!!!
Check this out http://www.crank.com/crank4/crnk4-07.htm . Betcha never did THAT !
