NO, and your grand dad’s were just probably smaller in size to fit the rock he was blasting.
I do recall he had different length sticks ... they were pretty stout though, one blew a fourteen ffot railroad tie used to ‘contain a blast’ clear over the house and into the front yard. There is still red clay embedded in the logs on the back of the house ... my mother took down and rebuilt an old loghouse on/at a new location, which was where I grew up in Boones Creek.