TX: Twelve-year-old Boy Ignites .22 Cartridge with Cigarette Lighter

Gun Watch ^ | 19 June, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[Boogieman]

Hold muh kool-aid.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** Why naturally we pounded on it with rocks to see if we could get it to go off***

We had an idiot in the military who found a .50 cal cartridge and decided to drill a hole in it for a souvenir.

They had his funeral a few days later. He could have bought all the dummy .50 round cartridges he wanted at the local Army Surplus store, but No-O-o. He wanted a real one!

[Texicanus]

When I was five , my friends watched me pour the powder from a number of firecrackers into the smokestack of my favourite toy plastic locomotive and light it to see the smoke. This was outside and on the sand pile where we played - thank goodness. Mama didn’t allow no messing around in the house.

I saw smoke, but completely destroyed my locomotive in the process. Fortunately I had carefully tossed a lit match (no punk around) and run like hell, so I was not hit by the flying shrapnel. I still remember the smell, flying sand, and small pieces of plastic all over the place. It was DUMB, but I learned a lot from the experience.

Amazing what one can do with a little gun powder and a match.

[B4Ranch]

>>It is a wonder there aren’t bunches of one armed, one eyed 60 something men around these days.<<

There is. We’re just lucky not to be included in the group.

[catnipman]

Stupid kid. Everybody knows you’re supposed to ignite stray .22 cartridges by throwing them in a campfire.

[B4Ranch]

Having access to dynamite and powder filled blasting caps made my childhood exciting. Never did any serious damage but I had fun bringing down trees, clearing stumps and fishing.

[B4Ranch]

That story made me laugh out loud. I love it!

[lacrew]

The rocket fuel was in a small rectangular container....we lit it, and for a split second there was a five ft tall rectangular column of fire, and a load roar.

Smokelss powder burns fast....model rocket fuel burns as warp speed.

[Hot Tabasco]

What was the result? How far will bullets penetrate into water?

I think there was more to this episode but here's a youtube clip of the .50 cal

Shooting into water

[BlueMondaySkipper]

We filled up CO2 cartridges with gunpowder, then made our own fuses with masking tape cut into strips and covered with gunpowder. These things blew up REAL good. One totally vaporized a cinder block. My favorite was strapping them onto arrows and shooting them in the air.

We also took empty .22 brass, and filled them with match heads. Then, bent the end to contain everything. Once we made up a bunch we would explode them by hitting them with a hammer. Cheap fun circa 1975

[S.O.S121.500]

As long as it doesn’t kill or severely injure them experience is a great teacher.

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The best teacher. Those it kills were not viable anyway.....

“Experience; the school master of fools and school is always in session.”

[Mat_Helm]

We would take 12 Gauge shot shells, take pliers and undue the crimp, empty the shot and keep one BB, place a marble or projectile into the shell hole, tape the BB to the primer face, throw the shell high up and the heavy metal case always came down primer first and the BB would set off the primer and BBBOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!

[Cloverfarm]

Why is it police business — taking a guess here that gunshot wounds are reportable to somebody.

[Tainan]

What?
I thought everybody did this at least once.

That shooting empty cans with M-80s.

[Tainan]

"Amazing what one can do with a little gun powder and a match."

Man o man...ain't that the truth.

[cynwoody]

A few minutes later I jumped as something in my pocket got HOT real fast. Never again. I’ve always heard that money can burn a hole in your pocket if you don’t spend it quick.

Batteries close to the body can be a hazard. Sometimes, sadly, fatal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4452360/Exploding-mobile-phone-kills-man-in-China.html

[Celtic Conservative]

We made our own “mortar” rounds by glueing m-80’s to model rocket engines and then firing them from brass pipe formed into tubes. Once the tube tipped over, pointing at us before the fuse lit it. I don’t think I’ve ever run faster.

CC

[scott7278]

Great post - thanks!

[Married with Children]

Welcome. Like I said...those stories were from a coworker of my father who is a chemist at an AGCHEM corporation. The guy is quite a character.

[IncPen]

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