Burned a few neighbors yards up, the doorbell off the house, and countless t shirts up from bottle rocket fights as a kid!
Good fun!!!!
Good fun!!!!
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I did'nt think they were illegal in Texas.I know alot of people that get them in Texas is the reason I thought that.Their illegal in Oklahoma I do know that.I had some called Jumpo Bottle Rockets one time that were made by Black Cat.Their all gone now but those things shot way up in the air before they popped.I think I got those in South Dakota or maybe Missouri I can't remember.
Me and a few of my buddies had a bottle rocket fight yesterday with those smaller bottle rockets that don't shoot very far up in the air before they pop and a cop drove by.He did'nt stop and say anything so he must not know the law.Either that or he just don't really care.They were my friends bottle rockets so I did'nt really care either.Last edited by okrattler; 06-24-2010, 06:23 PM.Comment
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I'm a big fan of sparklers! You know cheap little sparklers...but I like lots of them!Take a 5 gallon bucket and fill with sand/dirt and buy LOTS of sparklers! Enough to cover 3/4 of bucket,stick all of them in there at same depth...this takes awhile when you have in excess of 800 little sticks.After you have them all in there take a string and wrap them so you can pull them together as a bundle and snug them up.Important part is lighting them,take 2 sparklers and attach them so they are extended above the bundle to form a fuse and stick them in center of mass.Put this in WIDE open area clear of anything.Lite another sparkler at distance to walk up and use it on fuse(keep children at least 75 feet away from the whole goings on!)touch the individual to the fuse and move away with children! We all know sparklers are great for children to hold and make little designs in the dark,when you do as desribed they DO NOT just fizzle for 30-45 seconds and go out...the whole mass will ignite and last maybe 1/2 second and you can feel heat for maybe 100 feet!We have done it and set off car alarms and if you have a video camera running you can capture the "mushroom effect" at ignition! We had it on video and you could hear my father spout profanities and ask how much gunpowder I just wasted...he didn't believe when I saud zero! Remember saftey first with the kids and don't be drinking trying this! Ain't cheap but hey it's only one time a year!
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RLoving1-That is a pretty cool thing to do.We usually just wrap a bunch together with electrical tape.
The artillery shells that go up in the air and make pretty colors in the sky also look pretty awesome when you throw them instead of shootin them out of the tube.Its even cooler when you throw them in a pond or a lake.You just have to hold them until the fuse gets pretty low so that the fuse does'nt go out when it hits the water.By the way If you're ever thinkin about paddling a canoe out into the middle of a pond and you know your friends have some artillery shell fireworks,make sure they have used them all up before paddling out into the middle of the pond because their probably thinkin about shootin them at you.I know from experience........I wasn't in the canoe though.Last edited by okrattler; 06-24-2010, 06:50 PM.Comment
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I guess I may be making a trip to La then. Need to teach the kids what bottle rocket are all about.
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Again as I said in post #8, there are still items for sale in TX that a lot of people call bottle rockets, but TX outlawed the "bottle rocket" that is pictured above and outlawed the use of the words "bottle rocket" on an item. Any stick rocket sold in TX legally has to have a motor that is no less than 5/8" in diameter. Most call the bottle rockets, but they are now called, legally, pop rockets.
Just like firecrackers, they sound just as loud as they did years back, but they have only 1/3rd the amount of powder that they had years ago. They are still made and rolled by hand overseas and just wrapped a little tighter to keep the sound level up.
There is one thing to keep in mind if you love fireworks, some of the things that you are saying you do with them will eventually get someone hurt and it might not matter to you or the people that might get hurt, but this is just fodder into the hands of the anti's to have fireworks completely outlawed for the general public's use. Bills come up every session of the legislature in the state of TX to have all fireworks outlawed for general public's use. I am not saying to stop having fun they way you do, but remember it could cost the rest of us and you the fun some of us have with them.Comment
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Yeah, Mudslinger, if I caught my kids doing what me and my other idiot friends doing when we were kids, I'd kick their butts. I'm not sure how nobody ever lost an eye or a finger or something back then. M-80s and such......Comment
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Me and my friends do some pretty stupid stuff but we never do things to the point where we know we could hurt someone.Shootin at my friend while he was in the canoe with the artillery shells was kinda dangerous but we were pretty sure he was'nt gonna get hit.He almost tipped the canoe but that was about the only danger he was in at the time.
I guess it just depends on what you call gettin hurt.I get burnt several times a year when the 4th of July rolls around and it hurts but after an hour or two it feels better and I forget all about it.The thing about it is that if me and my friends get hurt nobody is gonna know about it or at least know the truth about how it happened.Because we have parents like Shane who would kick our butts if they knew how we actually got hurt.We're not the smartest bunch of kids but we're smart enough to know how to keep out of trouble.
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The reason I say this is because my wife has been in the wholesale fireworks business for over 20 years and if they are outlawed, she looses her job and we end up in the poor house because our lives would drastically change. I too, have done some of the things mentioned and had a blast doing them, but then realized what could happen.Comment
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When I drove through Tennessee a couple back they had'em. True blackcat bottle rockets. They're illegal in Texas so I don't have any...
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Bottle rocket question
You ain't lived until you tightly wrap 200 original sparklers up in tin foil and secure with packing tape. Unboxing the things takes the longest. Like mentioned above, it sounds like a cannon!Comment
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You wonder why the sparklers act like they do. They burn at over 1200 degrees! and they are made for little kids.Comment
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Just a heads up on the Sparkler deal. I know there are a few LEO here from the Beaumont/Port Arthur area that can clarify and there may have even been a thread on this back in January.
Anyhow, there was a fellow in Port Acres that made a sparkler "bomb" as they are called in some circles. He lit it off, possibly in a washer or dryer and it was like a cannon going off and it may have blown the lid off as well.
This guy is dealing with the FEDS now on having bomb making components, constructing a bomb and all the other charges that can go along with it.
That will sure tear a hole in your sack lunch,,,,Comment
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Ah some old school guys!
I can't tell you all the wars we had with those things, the burning fields,,did I say burning field?
Having wars in a pond in boats is awesome.
One of the things we used to do was light all 12 (you know twist the fuses together) and take the plasted of the very end of the dozen, lay it on the street, light and you and your buddies run down the street and see the rocket go by you and every now and then pow right in the back of someone LOL!
Oh, the time my best friend had a gross in has arms and trying to light a single a spark hit the gross and we all took off running behind an enbankment..when the popping slowed down we looked up to see the hay pasture on fire!
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