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Originally Posted by intakexhaust
hehe...
We made real cannons. Crazy, crazy. Although this was of no knowledge to the parents or other adults. I probably shouldn't have been hanging around one friend after school as he was a bit of a troublemaker, but we did have fun.
Gun powder was fairly easy to get and mostly from unraveling fireworks. We'd collect beverage cans (the days of steel type), take them to a job site where they'd be pouring concrete. Played around there and then fill the cans up. They fit perfect in a heavy pipe we had. Not sure where one kid got the modified pipe from but it had a heavy cap end. Jeezus those projectiles blasting into a burm was spectacular - mounds and chunks of dirt flying! The sound concussion boom felt made it even more thrilling!
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We started out making rockets with CO2 cartridges. Light with a cigarette as a fuse and watch it fly for over 100 yards. We eventually made a grenade by mistake. Scared the crap out of us when that blew and we saw the damage. Of course that just brought us to a new level of fun. Now the ATF & FBI & local bomb squads would be called.