Firecrackers in slingshots. It was a crew-served weapon for my brothers and I.AndyC wrote:We did the same thing but with a cheap Bic ball-pen which has a roughly 22-cal barrel. Remove the ink-tube then light a mini firecracker, drop it in base first and quickly stuff another mini in after it, fuse first.sjfcontrol wrote:We never used a marble, but we'd take a pipe with a cap on one end (kinda half a pipe-bomb). drill a hole in the cap so you could pass the firecracker's fuse thru it. Then you take two firecrackers and push the fuse of one into the end of the other. Then pass the free fuse thru the cap. Firing the first firecracker would propel the second firecracker and ignite it's fuse. With luck and practice you could get the 2nd firecracker to blow-up midair. We called them firecracker cannons.
I'll confess to a few mildly stinging fingers until I got the timing right - and then a stinging bottom from my mother when I hit her one of her best sheets hanging out on the line
One would load a firecracker into one of our slingshots, and then the other would light it. Shoot it before it exploded.
I can remember firecracker "wars" with neighbor kids where the firecracker in the slingshot was our "mortar".
