Yea erich... My dad was a competitive pistol shooter in the early 80's, so he packed his own bullets... Well, that means having cannisters full of black powder...
Well, ill tell ya, we sure had fun with that stuff... Mix it with gasoline and an M-80 or a Blockbuster, and u were in for the time of ur life...
I remember blowing all kinds of stuff up. I always liked a black cat or an M-80 in a plastic models. Light, then launch. Boom! Can't say we ever tried launching roman candles at each other.
Those and bottle rockets were the staple for fireworks wars.... That and the occasional Charge with whole packs of firecrackers, but that was pretty much suicidal....
I di remember the pack loads and bb gun wars. I think we didn't do much with roman candles after setting a field on fire. We did put it out, but almost didn;t.
You could never buy that stuff here. Still can't, which is probably a good thing.
Some guys up the street almost caused a forest fire with some Molotov cocktails one time, so that quickly ended the experiment with gasoline.
BB gun wars we did do, and slingshots. The pellets hurt a lot more than the BB's though.
I couldn't help but laugh at that stupid lad blowing his arm off. He deserved for A) Being stupid B) The one shaking it up [comes under being stupid] C) Wasting alcohol.