MaverickNH
NES Member
Remember those Alcohol & Firearms Don't Mix campaigns from the 1970s? The signs pictured a bottle of liquor (XXX on label) and jar of gunpowder, with a big red X though it all.
Well, at the gunshop today, looking at reloading supplies, I remembered my teenaged buddies and me pulling open numerous 22lr cartridges and pouring the powder into some whiskey stolen from some parent's cabinet. We lit it on fire and ran like hell, expecting a mushroom cloud.
Imagine our disappointment when nothing happened. We figured we were either short on gunpowder or need stronger liquor and gave up. I guess we were rather dim kids from Iowa, with the real message lost on us.
Back to pipe bombs and M80s...
Electrolysis of water with a Lionell train transformer into oxygen and hydrogen was much more rewarding. You caught it in a plastic trash bag and floated it over a candle. Add some 91% Isopropanol and we had air-fuel bombs!
Well, at the gunshop today, looking at reloading supplies, I remembered my teenaged buddies and me pulling open numerous 22lr cartridges and pouring the powder into some whiskey stolen from some parent's cabinet. We lit it on fire and ran like hell, expecting a mushroom cloud.
Imagine our disappointment when nothing happened. We figured we were either short on gunpowder or need stronger liquor and gave up. I guess we were rather dim kids from Iowa, with the real message lost on us.
Back to pipe bombs and M80s...
Electrolysis of water with a Lionell train transformer into oxygen and hydrogen was much more rewarding. You caught it in a plastic trash bag and floated it over a candle. Add some 91% Isopropanol and we had air-fuel bombs!