When I was a kid, some of us would make pipe bombs from black powder or emptying shotgun shells into a threaded, capped pipe. Sometimes kids would blow themselves up.
Nowdays, even having a partially made pipe bomb is against about 10,000 laws.
They’ve taken a lot of the fun out of blowing things up.
When I was a kid, my parents often sent me to my grandparent’s farm for the summer.
Best memory was clearing stumps for new farmland. At a nearby country store, Grandpa picked up dynamite off the shelf. The blasting caps and chord were kept in a safe that he had to sign for.
BIG oak stumps were the most fun. I got to choose how many sticks to plant underneath each one.
Yeah, blowing stuff up is pure Americana.
Yup
A cherry bomb in a Skippy peanut butter jar containing gasoline can STILL send a piece of glass into the back of your ear at 100 yards!