You could take the whole roll of caps, lay them sideways on a brick or an anvil and hit it with a hand held sledge hammer. The sound is deafening. We used to bite the bullet end of the cartridge and could disengage the bullet from the casing and pile up the gunpowder and do the same and get a really nice bang out of it. My Father and Grandfather would hide their cartridges from me because I was forever pilfering the powder from them and making explosives. One thing I never did was hit a cartridge with a hammer. We had these little poppers that were round and exploded by throwing them against the wall...we’d throw them onto the highway and let the cars blow them up...but they ruined your day if you chewed them. Also, never put strikers into a sewage opening if you don’t have an avenue of escape...I could go on...
.....One thing I never did was hit a cartridge with a hammer. We had these little poppers that were round and exploded by throwing them against the wall.....
I got in real trouble with the cracker balls. At Sunday night youth group, I put one between the seat retainer and the seat on a folding chair so that it went off when someone sat on the chair. It made a big noise in the Sunday school room