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  • In our ongoing quest to satiate our viewers' felonious curiosities, we made a series of "cricket-bombs" out of empty CO2 containers using various explosive fillers.
    Though cricket bombs are rather small explosive devices, they are considered Destructive Devices under the National Firearms Act (ATF) and making one without the right paperwork is no different than making a machine-gun. So obviously don't do this at home.
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  • @timunknown6724
    @timunknown6724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1733

    Yeah never try this at home! Always do it at a friend's house.

    • @gerryjames9720
      @gerryjames9720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      The father of a friend of mine had a 6’x6’ stack of gutter downspouts behind their house. When he would get pissed at my friend, he would threaten to make him replace the downspouts on their 2 story house, knowing that the kid was terrified of heights, and the back of the house was actually 3 stories. We were about 15 at the time. I solved the problem by shoving a string of these into the middle of the stack. It destroyed them all, mostly with shrapnel. Couldn’t do this at my house, my Dad had a vile temper, and would have done me harm.

    • @MrNater41
      @MrNater41 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Best comment ever! And so true

    • @eyeofjake
      @eyeofjake 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @ARockyRock
      @ARockyRock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      help my friends house is gone

    • @justinbaker8873
      @justinbaker8873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I wouldn't even try it at my friend's house.... I love my fingers. And with the metal flying around faster than a bullet, no thanks.

  • @UtubeH8tr
    @UtubeH8tr ปีที่แล้ว +52

    "Register with the atf"
    That's the best joke you've ever made.

    • @Sad_cat_studio
      @Sad_cat_studio 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no, that was when he said "things got out of hand"when he blew up the mannequins hand

  • @Samonie67
    @Samonie67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +585

    you should try lighting these things off near ballistic gelatin to show the actual power the fragments have.

    • @wendigo-e3m
      @wendigo-e3m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      @old school honour and respect. Oh I'm sorry, i didn't realize they were making FUCKING BOMBS until you said that. Lmfao

    • @mystic_tacos
      @mystic_tacos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@wendigo-e3m I've always wanted to make one, but I'm fairly partial to my limbs and not being in prison... So I haven't.

    • @wendigo-e3m
      @wendigo-e3m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@mystic_tacos As far as your limbs go, if you don't fuck it up, you'll be fine. Same as anything else right? But like seriously don't fuck it up. The consequences are severe, and immediate lmao.
      As far as prison goes, your first mistake was talking about it lol

    • @Xxx_Lord_Poop_xxX
      @Xxx_Lord_Poop_xxX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @old school honour and respect. aye bro shut the fuck up lmao, let people learn the lesson

    • @DBZ483
      @DBZ483 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wendigo-e3m LOOOOOL

  • @jeffjohnson1861
    @jeffjohnson1861 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    Not sure how my brother and I survived the 80s but we blew up a lot of stuff, and these were one of my personal favorites. The hardware store gladly sold me all the black powder and fuse I could buy. This brings back some fun memories.

    • @cashiscamping5126
      @cashiscamping5126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      "kid must have a lot of stumps to remove" lol

    • @Likinis2200
      @Likinis2200 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How did you seal the bomb? So that the pressure does not go out through the hole where the wick enters

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Likinis2200 I think the fuse effectively seals it

    • @bobbyc2768
      @bobbyc2768 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Likinis2200 stick the fuse in and then hot glue it sealed. works like a charm!

    • @mikefenton7491
      @mikefenton7491 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@bobbyc2768did guerrilla glue, works amazing. It swells a bit inside and seals tighter

  • @mad_hatty
    @mad_hatty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +448

    the fact that you guys are sponsored by a literal international ordnance dealer is absolutely amazing and i love it

    • @camojoe83
      @camojoe83 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That's a bit of a puffed up tag. Anyone importing russian ammo could be called that.

    • @stevenraycopley8885
      @stevenraycopley8885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      International is the key phrase here lol

    • @jeffgill420
      @jeffgill420 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stop war

    • @TheBigFormerlyPurpleT
      @TheBigFormerlyPurpleT ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@jeffgill420 No u.

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool ปีที่แล้ว

      @@camojoe83 ammo is ordinance?

  • @dizzious
    @dizzious 3 ปีที่แล้ว +218

    I know someone who made hundreds of these as a kid. We just called them "CO2 bombs".

    • @johnbarber7952
      @johnbarber7952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That's what we called em too. They'd send a man hole cover six feet into the air!

    • @J.P.82
      @J.P.82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yep we would put lil birdshot in em from the 12 gauge shells we used to get the gun powder to fill em up from.

    • @jameshale8013
      @jameshale8013 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They added a lot of interest as the nose of model rokets ,

    • @fluxcapacitor05
      @fluxcapacitor05 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@jameshale8013 Great for mailboxes, and fit perfectly into a large metformin container surrounded by BBs, bolts, and 22 bullets :)

    • @HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw
      @HarupertBeagleton-dz5gw ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We would grind up sparklers lol

  • @midesti
    @midesti 3 ปีที่แล้ว +981

    Turns out I was a very felonious kid in the mid-90's.

    • @tracewallace23
      @tracewallace23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Me too. But also in the 80's😉🤣🤣🤣

    • @jamesersher7705
      @jamesersher7705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      during that time we thought felonious was just a fancy way to say fun. Had we know otherwise we would have tried harder not to get caught lol.

    • @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917
      @getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      Early 2000's for me.... After kids started increasingly shooting up schools and whatnot, I cut that shit out real quick.
      Just too easily misinterpreted. Out of nowhere people might see you as some crazy nut job.

    • @tommcfarland5368
      @tommcfarland5368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Me as well!!

    • @SkinnerBeeMan
      @SkinnerBeeMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Fuck I got caught. It was not fun. Oh well.

  • @hallutz8743
    @hallutz8743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    And... Just like that we're all on a watch list.

    • @Korronikov
      @Korronikov 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      damnit youtube recommended

    • @redfaux74
      @redfaux74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      🤣🤣🤣 Watch this.... 🧐

    • @mikegautier8650
      @mikegautier8650 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      If I'm not on at least 2 watch lists already, someone's not doing their job.

    • @jfrog1979
      @jfrog1979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mikegautier8650 😆🤣😂🤣

    • @simplejackthemack5896
      @simplejackthemack5896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Damnit bobby

  • @TedCarnahan
    @TedCarnahan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    "Things got out of hand here."
    *GROAN*

    • @ExplosivesLaboratory
      @ExplosivesLaboratory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Now that was a big funny. *_✓_*

    • @Aaron48219
      @Aaron48219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn, beat me to it Ted 6:49

    • @b_i_r_d8840
      @b_i_r_d8840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Think it deserves a round of applause from the peanut gallery......do you think they are open to any pointers? 😁

    • @Aaron48219
      @Aaron48219 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Guess Ted's comment came in handy after all

    • @SupernovaSpence
      @SupernovaSpence 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Etb Etb nah, I'll pass. Last time someone lent him a hand, they didn't get it back 🤣

  • @aprilialover125
    @aprilialover125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    The fact that you guys are not scientific is absolutely awesome. It relates so much more to the inner "light the fuse and run for your life"-child we all possess. Never change, you guys are doing what was my dream as a kid

    • @squidwardo7074
      @squidwardo7074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      you can buy empty co2 cartridges and black powder online you know

    • @xXrandomryzeXx
      @xXrandomryzeXx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@squidwardo7074 he also has hands and fingers he wants to keep on using.

    • @MrBurkeslaw
      @MrBurkeslaw 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@squidwardo7074what about fuse line

    • @FireCrack83
      @FireCrack83 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i am 40 now and i still could grap some firecrackers and do silly stuff all day ^^

  • @itsmecarter2
    @itsmecarter2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Man reminds me of my childhood. Glad I still have all my digits. County life was fun

    • @BabyCharlotteschannel
      @BabyCharlotteschannel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah for sure! Living just a few hours away from China Town in NYC was great, quarter and half sticks whenever we wanted made for an amazing childhood!!

    • @jackspratt44
      @jackspratt44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude! Living out in the country is way better than the city. You can play with knives and throwing stars and shoot any gun you want and set crap on fire and blow stuff up and shoot coyotes and raccoons and predators and hang out anywhere you want to in the woods on your property and dig holes and make landmines and set traps and alk kinds of cool crap that in any city you'd be beaten and arrested for.

    • @BabyCharlotteschannel
      @BabyCharlotteschannel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jackspratt44 yep, that was my exact life. Quarter mile from my neighbor and best friends farm, and a hundred miles from the city..
      **We used to HATE the whiney little biych city slickers that would come up for the summers and weekends and think they could complain about our dirt bikes or anything else for that matter!!

    • @allensherrill850
      @allensherrill850 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How long did you have to do in county? 😮

  • @gerryjames9720
    @gerryjames9720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Actually, I made these as a child using match heads scraped off the stick mixed with propellant from .22 rimfire shells. They worked like a champ.

    • @hodwooker5584
      @hodwooker5584 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A close friend set fire to his parents house with the match head and 22 powder version of these. I am not sure what he did wrong, but we heard the bang three blocks away. He survived the blast and fire but was injured by fragments. He eventually became a ranch hand and was killed by cattle stomping him to death in a box car. Overall not a particularly lucky man. He was only 35 years old at the time of his death.

    • @alexandruman3786
      @alexandruman3786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@hodwooker5584 I used to make a lot of match head bombs and firecrackers as a kid. I bet he didn’t grind the heads into a powder. They just fly like fireballs all over the place if they are not ground

    • @thefreedomwarrior
      @thefreedomwarrior 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ban cows.

    • @JosephDawson1986
      @JosephDawson1986 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I used to make mine with crushed up blackcat firecrackers, reuse the green fuses tied together with bred ties and crushed up match heads. Used to blow chucks out of an old stump in the yard until it caught fire and thus letting my dad catch us.
      Also probably not a good idea to set off random explosives around a combat vet after only 8 or so years after the Gulf War.

    • @prestpond
      @prestpond ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexandruman3786noted 😂

  • @alexfaudel5245
    @alexfaudel5245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    So according to the comments, i missed an extremely fun childhood by about 5 years

    • @johncothren603
      @johncothren603 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It doesn't take long to catch back up and nobody would be the wiser.

  • @redrusso9836
    @redrusso9836 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I know two different kids when I was younger who made these. Both used firecracker fuses. They both have pincers for left hands. Other than that they are OK except for the brother who had to pick up the fingers of one

  • @rocketg4360
    @rocketg4360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    "OH MY GOD THAT AIN'T SCIENTIFIC!"

    • @b_i_r_d8840
      @b_i_r_d8840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol isn't that what makes it great?

    • @jonbrooks6522
      @jonbrooks6522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sure it is, see the blast pattern cause science and sh&t

    • @iamalpharius3959
      @iamalpharius3959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good nuf.

    • @Bombarded1n
      @Bombarded1n 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope its DumbAzztific Bwhhahahahaha

  • @MrAngus4200
    @MrAngus4200 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love how in the end he said arms length to set them off because you honestly don't want to be anywhere near that when you set them off. Me and my buddy set them off all the time back in the day and I still mess around and do the same thing except with empty bullet shell casings. And even as small as a .22 shell can issue a nice injury. Great video tho and informative

  • @sweffec
    @sweffec 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Best channel on TH-cam you guys are the best.

    • @Sure-wj1vf
      @Sure-wj1vf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup, no bullshit, no clickbait.

  • @RipeSteel
    @RipeSteel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I loved it when he said "Things really got out of hand here" as he's holding parts of the mannequins arm and hand. 😆

  • @adirondacker007
    @adirondacker007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I came up with a design for an anti-coyote mine based on these about 30 years ago. It was a pretty nasty little device. I never even built one, as I had no way to exclude non-target species. Glad I thought it through. No regrets.

    • @cedarhatt-vx8kf
      @cedarhatt-vx8kf ปีที่แล้ว

      Remember the cyanide guns? Almost as deadly as fauci's death medicine. 7:43

    • @bettylouchessor2653
      @bettylouchessor2653 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everytime I read someone say NO REGRETS.. I THINK ABOUT THAT TATTOO THE GUY GOT SPELLED WRONG.. NO REGRATS LOL

    • @CorePathway
      @CorePathway 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      “Mommy, where’s Fluffy?”

  • @justadbeer
    @justadbeer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    As a kid in the 60's I remember using match heads as a filler

    • @oldskipper1394
      @oldskipper1394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Benjamin Muller Yeah, we had a hard time getting fuses, so we'd use a flash bulb for a brownie camera, a long wire set and a D cell for a detonator.

    • @petermenningen338
      @petermenningen338 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here but we never had them explode we used them as mortar's and rockets.. We could launch using a metal pipe and hit a 6' square at about 150 yds We fired over water and beach so we knew what was down range all of the time.

    • @shannondove9029
      @shannondove9029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes....I used them too. Used to get a box of 50 matches for 50 cents. Used wire cutters to chop them off

    • @boratsagdiyev5679
      @boratsagdiyev5679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shannondove9029 did you just try to brag about your match prices? Also that's not cheap at all

    • @shannondove9029
      @shannondove9029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@boratsagdiyev5679 what are you talking about?

  • @fletcherreder6091
    @fletcherreder6091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I like the friend you acquired at 4:47. You could say that you got stick bugged.

    • @jlambuth
      @jlambuth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Good catch! The friendly bug was placed safely away from the explosions.

    • @creepyendy
      @creepyendy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      for those who couldn't see it its on his left arm on the right

    • @joeyarola2620
      @joeyarola2620 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just came to see if anyone else noticed

  • @jarlaxle3588
    @jarlaxle3588 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I never knew these had a name....used to make em all the time as a kid. It's sad to think that I was probably the last generation of kids who will be able to enjoy fun like this (late 90's and early 00's). Although I doubt much will ever change for kids out in the really rural areas thankfully. Anymore it seems like the rural areas are the last decent and free places in America

    • @smoking_monk3257
      @smoking_monk3257 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We called them crater makers.

  • @only1muppet
    @only1muppet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I actually like the butcher paper idea for this use case. It does well enough to show the spread pattern, unless it’s an actual directed explosion or shaped charge it’s not likely to be much different in the open area direction than the other 3 sides. Plus it’s reusable, so it’s environmentally friendly too lol

  • @UNoBugMe1
    @UNoBugMe1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When I was a teenager, 14-16 my friends and I would buy whole boxes of matches, 50 books to a box and man, would we have fun.

  • @RodCornholio
    @RodCornholio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You don't get too many second chances in that biz. I respect the folks that do it and those that work in other risky occupations - like high amp/voltage electrical work. Hats off to ya'll.

  • @ruck-a-tron
    @ruck-a-tron ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I never heard that name before. I used to make these when I was a teenager. I always called them CO2 bombs. Another cool thing I did was to fill up a piece of aluminum arrow with black powder and put a shotgun shell primer on the end. Then tape a bb on so it will push the primer. Then just stick the piece of aluminum arrow onto a regular arrow shaft to make an explosive tipped arrow.

  • @KClO3
    @KClO3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The reason the black powder mixed with smokeless powder worked so well is because of the nitroglycerin and the overall larger gas’s volume that the smokeless powder creates, the black powder speeds up the reaction instead of making it just hiss or something

    • @mathysgobeil1592
      @mathysgobeil1592 ปีที่แล้ว

      tried mixing them together a bunch of times and it only hissed. any idea of what the optimal ratio would look like?

    • @TrashPanda71
      @TrashPanda71 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've got a pound of old Pyrodex and a half pound of old smokeless leftovers of many different flavors, I'll try and mix them together and try in cardboard tubes. Not expecting much tho..

    • @BoredAmerican
      @BoredAmerican 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TrashPanda71a big issue with that is the pressure that cardboard can build up

    • @TrashPanda71
      @TrashPanda71 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BoredAmerican
      Worked better than expected.

    • @footballartisan8990
      @footballartisan8990 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nitrocellulose*

  • @Fryinberg
    @Fryinberg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude. I made those 25yrs ago. They are dangerous but fun. Bury one just to the top and put a 1gallon zip lock filled with gasoline on top. Awesome ending of a fireworks show.

  • @nwmancuso
    @nwmancuso 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I can’t believe how many other people here made these as a kid!

    • @youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236
      @youwouldntclickalinkonyout6236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      and this man earned him a spot on a watchlist, like everyone else watching these types of videos.

    • @RemoteCamper
      @RemoteCamper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was looking for a quick and easy way to build something and I had a pellet gun so I had MANY of empty containers laying around.

    • @zdub8438
      @zdub8438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I still can't hear right and that was 10 years ago lol. We always had more fun with the pill bottle bombs tho. Sometimes it just flared up, but one time it turned a 1/16 scale ford explorer into a memory. Plus you didn't have to check and make sure everyone was alive afterwards 😂😂😂

    • @keithlucas6260
      @keithlucas6260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm not confessing to anything....I'm an innocent bystander who witnessed nothing, didn't see nothing, didn't hear nothing, don't remember nothing or anybody.....that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

    • @firstmkb
      @firstmkb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No internet back in the day, so, we had to make our own fun using different sources of sketchy information. A friend of mine would have done less if he had been able to see it on TH-cam.

  • @frankless4672
    @frankless4672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm never messn with these things. Idk what I'd do without palmala. She makes me happy every morning

  • @Beardedtraxler
    @Beardedtraxler ปีที่แล้ว +4

    you can also use matches, my uncle use to use matches make it into a powder and pack it into a co2 containers and then use a fuse with a bit of hot glue at the tip. he'd put a pot over the top and light the fuse and watch the pot shoot up in the sky 🤣😂

  • @ambkbero2
    @ambkbero2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We made these in the 70's. Pipe cutter to remove the rounded end, pull the crimp off. Our powder of choice was "D" engines for model rockets. There are three types of powder and three burn rates. Test them for the one you want. One wrap of duct tape around the fuse is a perfect fit in the nozzle. Insert the fuse, invert so open end faces up and add powder. Usually a tablespoon was enough. Stuff the interior with old newspaper almost to the end then seal it with JB Weld and let cure for 24 hrs. Light and take cover, these will create shrapnel.

  • @TheExplosiveGuy
    @TheExplosiveGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Next, let's see a hybrid flash powder/nitrocellulose mix. I can tell you from experience, adding smokeless to a faster explosive like flash powder or HMTD, massively increases power over either one by themselves.
    When I was younger I dissolved one ounce of Acetone Peroxide (I know, but everyone starts somewhere😉) into three ounces of smokeless powder with acetone, then formed it into small cylinders with cardboard tubing and let them dry. Those were terrifying little cylinders for their size. I also formed some into small balls (1/4"-3/8") and shot them from a slingshot rifle, (it used a piece of cord behind the pouch for a trigger so nothing was pinched inside the pouch). The balls were impact sensitive with the acetone peroxide above 200 FPS, but the nitrocellulose decreased it's sensitivity enough to handle safely and shoot from a slingshot safely. That was a fun little thing, I was shooting moths on the walls of my dad's shop with them, I only had to hit within a few inches of them and the shockwave would strip the wings off them lol. Man I did sketchy stuff when I was a kid lol.

    • @pebo8306
      @pebo8306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Where do American kids get those ideas from??? For sure not from basic school education!

    • @skrimper
      @skrimper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pebo8306 shit just randomly pops into your head. We built different

    • @pebo8306
      @pebo8306 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@skrimper 🤣😂🤣-LOL:Best possible answer!

    • @321aquaponics4
      @321aquaponics4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should do a video series on that stuff

    • @TheExplosiveGuy
      @TheExplosiveGuy ปีที่แล้ว

      @@321aquaponics4 I would love to do so but I keep energetic materials off my channel for safety reasons (safety from the law), APCP rocket fuel is as far as I will go with energetics on my channel. Despite that I'm an avid follower of channels like Labratory of Liptakov and other similar like-minded channels, I do wish I could pursue some of my "other" interests more freely.

  • @joepatriot6431
    @joepatriot6431 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to sit and smoke the whole time I was reloading for pistol or rifle shells, But when the black powder came out it was ALL serious business making these. One spark, even a static spark can cause a serious explosion. These co2 devices were equal to or stronger than 1/4 stick loads. They could throw shrapnel up to 50 yards or more. If sealed with candle wax, they would even work under water. Glad I survived the 70's lol.

  • @mac11380
    @mac11380 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    You must have some badass crickets where you are for them to have a bomb made especially for them.

    • @joshsmith7176
      @joshsmith7176 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They got the name cricket bomb from the noisy cricket from MIB because of how strong they are for how small they are.

    • @rustyshackelford7121
      @rustyshackelford7121 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’ve seen Texas crickets takeoff with small children and pets!

  • @sinformant
    @sinformant 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "Things got out of hand here" that's classic!

  • @koori3085
    @koori3085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Interesting channel, pretty sure TH-cam would have been much more interesting in the early 90s, we woulda really gotten in trouble. Glad you guys are doing things safe and legal, enjoyed it!

  • @AllenLJames
    @AllenLJames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I learned enough to get myself arrested. I was making blackpower when I was a teenager in the mid 60s

    • @Colonel_Flanders
      @Colonel_Flanders 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, I wanted to learn about explosives, but what I really learned is that holding cells suck.

  • @larryrice2654
    @larryrice2654 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We did these as kids back in the 70's. I was 12 years old and had no problem buying the powder at Gibsons. We blew up tool boxes and all sorts of stuff. Thank God I have all my limbs intact.

  • @fluffy1376
    @fluffy1376 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    No fukn way! These things actually have a name! "Someone" used to make these lil things thinking he invented them🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @Oldbmwr100rs
    @Oldbmwr100rs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Long ago an uncle told me how he used to make these in the 60's when he was a teenager. He and his friends got into all sorts of stuff growing up in san francisco, which is a big reason my mom made sure to get us out of there back then.

  • @timourmarimuntz5294
    @timourmarimuntz5294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    Wait, not everybody made napalm as kids? Oh wait, everyone here did, the rest of the normal people didn't, my bad.

    • @SlavicCelery
      @SlavicCelery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I learned the same way as everyone else... Older brother taught me from some rando book from the library.

    • @timourmarimuntz5294
      @timourmarimuntz5294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@SlavicCelery i learned it one day after throwing a bunch of styrofoam into some gasoline and playing around with the goopy result for a while, before deciding to light it on fire and throwin it like a catapult. Was like when i was 12 or something.

    • @daddyplankton5855
      @daddyplankton5855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@timourmarimuntz5294 the fun way

    • @SlavicCelery
      @SlavicCelery 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Deez Nuts yes! I couldn't remember the name.

    • @SlavicCelery
      @SlavicCelery 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Deez Nuts Best way to learn about OSS tips and tricks from a non-military source.

  • @Messines17
    @Messines17 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Never made a cricket bomb, flash powder in spent .308 casings always made a good bang

    • @AKAtheA
      @AKAtheA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @old school honour and respect. and the possibility of increasing the danger/dumb factor by replacing the primer :D

    • @kurtbatman8062
      @kurtbatman8062 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      ATF would like to know your dog's location.

    • @TucsonHat
      @TucsonHat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      When i was a kid my parents got my brother and into model rockets... Used to break up the solid fuel packs and stuff it into .308 and -06 shells, put in the igniter, crimp it, and use them with the electric firing device to blast ground squirrels... Ah the joys of growing up in rural Arizona.

    • @chrish5224
      @chrish5224 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I enjoy the respectable boom you get when I used to put foil and muriatic acid in a plastic pepsi or coke bottle. Oh man! I remember when I was in middle school, my best friend and I lived on opposite sides of a old gravel pit, used for a concrete company. Anyway... the plastic ketchup bottles ( the kind with the no leak, squeeze top), those things would stretch and stretch and stretch to double its size and the boom was always epic! Especially since it was down in this bowl shaped pit with 360° of sound reverberating walls. Shooodang those were the days. Anybody ever make your own bottle rockets outta shotgun shells, some balsa wood and a basic chemistry set from a local hobby store etc? Got pretty good at it, to the point where we engineered a secondary charge to go off and deploy a parachute. Cant wait to tinker around and share my childhood joys with my kid. Safety first of course.

    • @AKAtheA
      @AKAtheA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@chrish5224 I would suggest you leave out / save for later those that involve hot acid spraying around... Getting burns or "tatoos" from flash powder explosions is one thing, hot acid in your face is something else.

  • @evank7858
    @evank7858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The difference between screwing around and "being scientific" is recording data. This definitely counts.

    • @f.morgani3568
      @f.morgani3568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup.. Evidence... that's just what we need..

  • @lairdcummings9092
    @lairdcummings9092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Dangerous little bundles of joy...

    • @lairdcummings9092
      @lairdcummings9092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm not real surprised that the black powder-only bomb had low fragmentation; black powder has pretty low brissance.

    • @SilvaDreams
      @SilvaDreams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lairdcummings9092 Yeah it's a sub-sonic reaction, likely why most black powder guns used .50 cal sized rounds. They just used the shear weight and size of the lead round instead of modern rounds which rely more on the shock effect.

  • @andyd2960
    @andyd2960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These little guys used to really piss off some woodchucks. Allegedly

  • @admiralpercy
    @admiralpercy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The ones I definitely didn't make as a kid just went off like rocket engines.

    • @Colonel_Flanders
      @Colonel_Flanders 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That definitely didn't happen to me, and I definitely didn't fix that with hot glue.

    • @robotfrank5171
      @robotfrank5171 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Colonel_Flanders sexy Flanders.

    • @genejeffries2888
      @genejeffries2888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The jb weld putty worked great too... supposedly.

  • @koriwest
    @koriwest 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I had no idea there were called “cricket bombs” or that they were destructive devices. Me and my friend used to make these as kids using powder and fuses from arial fireworks as a kid. Guess I’ve been a “felon” for longer than knew.

    • @justme-ij2qy
      @justme-ij2qy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep. As a kid I made some by grinding down Estes rocket motor propellant. I played around with all kinds of stuff making smoke bombs, cannons, rockets, etc. Needless to say things were much different in the 80's and 90's.

    • @soylentgreenb
      @soylentgreenb ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@justme-ij2qy And things were equally as different from the 80's and 90's in the 50's and 60's and so on. Go back to the late 1800's early 1900's and you could buy opium over the counter and a mixture of opium and alcohol was used instead of a pacifier to prevent teething children from whining (it worked, but sometimes they got a bit too quiet...). Any random fool could buy dynamite at a random farming supply store. You could mail order submachine guns at least into the 1930's. It was common for children to bring a knife to school; how else could you make bark-boats and play mumblety-peg (which usually involved throwing pocket knives so they stick into the ground close to your own foot).

    • @bensmith4563
      @bensmith4563 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@soylentgreenbthe early 1900s is when this country started going down the toilet

  • @kentrose1641
    @kentrose1641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Those are called ground pounders. You bury them 4 inches down

  • @SW-fk6jk
    @SW-fk6jk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I used to make these things the early 90's using 4F flash powder. I put one in a model rocket and the longest burning jet I could find. Could barely hear the report when it went off. Used to have a lot of fun with these things.

  • @teaganwindago3132
    @teaganwindago3132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Dude! I made sparklers bombs for years. The last one was the LAST one. I blew away a refrigerator. The blast radius was 150 feet. I won't make another one.

    • @mac11daddy6
      @mac11daddy6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ATF would like to know your location

    • @tommullenix2990
      @tommullenix2990 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Crazy what sparklers, aluminum foil and black tape will do.

  • @716Flat4
    @716Flat4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would think if you wanted fragmentation that you would roll the little cylinders in some kind of adhesive and then ball bearings.

  • @erinralston
    @erinralston 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I subscribed. It seems your channel is all about blowing things to pieces. This is content I can enjoy.

  • @WRWhizard
    @WRWhizard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One time we stuffed a Co2 full of match heads, pinched it and threw it in a campfire. It nearly put it out. Another time we were throwing aerosol cans in the campfire. The best was the can of rug shampoo. It left a momentary horizontal trail of white foam 20' long and the diameter of the can that fell across logs etc. and held it's shape then melted.

  • @samfisher4247
    @samfisher4247 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There's just something so beautiful about blowing shit up. I love your channel keep up the great work guys.

  • @scottplagmann3411
    @scottplagmann3411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Someone has to keep those prosthetics companies in business!

  • @jordanhorst6
    @jordanhorst6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love this channel, but given my viewing habits on youtube I'm probably on some watchlist by now lol xD

  • @MrRedeyedJedi
    @MrRedeyedJedi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Would have been cool to see a slow mo of one in some ballistic gel.

    • @That_Freedom_Guy
      @That_Freedom_Guy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, I agree. That would look great.

    • @johncothren603
      @johncothren603 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No budget to be scientific, just slow down the playback speed that's provided by this platform. Spoiler alert, an explosion is just an extremely fast fire.

  • @Tymopta
    @Tymopta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I made dozens of these in my late teen years. I never knew they had a real name. Also didn't know they were a felony until years later. I destroyed many things with them.

  • @madeintexas3d442
    @madeintexas3d442 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You should cut grooves into the canister with a Dremel tool or something to produce more fragmentation. That would be an awesome video comparing cut vs not cut canisters and diffrent paterns to see how it changes the fragmentation.

  • @WaxPaper
    @WaxPaper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    Here I was thinking I was a genius 25 years ago when I made these as a kid... I didn't know they were called cricket bombs, never knew anyone else made them.
    I used to fill them with smokeless powder. I knew it was sketchy as hell, even at 13 or 14. Always made sure me and the boys were behind cover, lol.
    I got tired of being so paranoid about when and where I could set them off, so instead, I started filling ping pong balls with smokeless, and wrapping them with an absurd amount of electrical tape. They were decent, we called them "black thunders," lol.
    Couple years later I'd discover traditional salutes, and that ended my experiments with sketchy ass homemade crap. I still think kids that age would be better served with salute cannons, or those mug-type devices. All the bang with hardly any of the risk. Big harm reduction, imo.

    • @lachlan1971
      @lachlan1971 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If I had made these 25 years ago in the UK, I would have had to have used homemade black powder. Obviously I didn't :o)

    • @justindunlap1235
      @justindunlap1235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The look on my metal shop teachers face when he realized the "lamp" I was making was a percussion cap fired salute cannon.

    • @RemoteCamper
      @RemoteCamper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I used black powder and green waterproof fuze. I thought "if these are designed to hold a huge amount pf pressure, then these should make a great grenade" I once found one with an inverted bottom.
      Back then I was also taping a pack of morning glories to cans of butane.
      That all abruptly stopped once jail time was mentioned.

    • @richardhenry1969
      @richardhenry1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had know idea they had a name I made a few in 1985-86 I thought I was a genius.

    • @RemoteCamper
      @RemoteCamper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@richardhenry1969 EXACTLY my story too. Roughly .same years.

  • @danichicago9140
    @danichicago9140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dialed these bad boys in with some paper sparklers from the $ store in the 90s. Your missing the vintage Newport cigarette timer.

    • @jman1121
      @jman1121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've never, ever, ever... Used a cigarette to set off fireworks near someone's house... At night.

  • @freedfree7933
    @freedfree7933 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Co2 grenade, that brings back memories. To be honest, surprised I still have all my fingers and toes

  • @underdog1252
    @underdog1252 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I may not have made napalm as a kid, but I did make thermite when I was 9

    • @pebo8306
      @pebo8306 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kudos to your chemistry teacher!Must have been an interesting school,you were in!

    • @mackchris5451
      @mackchris5451 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Like with salt peter and iron oxide? And ignited with magnesium ribbon? Sounds like fun but I never got the chance.

    • @underdog1252
      @underdog1252 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mackchris5451 no, we used black pyro aluminum and black iron oxide

  • @DeltaDanner
    @DeltaDanner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “We don’t have the budget to be scientific”
    Probably because everything you do costs $200 at minimum

    • @kracksquatch512
      @kracksquatch512 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except these bombs cost, at the most, $100. If that

    • @idontwantausername7398
      @idontwantausername7398 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Black powder is cheap and if you make you’re own. Fuse is about 10-20$ and black powder is 20$

    • @MarcusToroian
      @MarcusToroian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kracksquatch512 he’s talking about the tax stamp

    • @kracksquatch512
      @kracksquatch512 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MarcusToroian That was Obviously factored into my count too. I went out and Bought everything he listed with the Total *After Tax* being *$97*
      That was the *"Minimum"*

    • @tyrannosaurusimperator
      @tyrannosaurusimperator 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kracksquatch512 in order to register a destructive device, you have to buy a $200 tax stamp for each device.

  • @My_friend_is_ReaReaOnPaws
    @My_friend_is_ReaReaOnPaws 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Things got out of hand" hahahaha i see what you did there. 🤣🤣

  • @kerrykalls7732
    @kerrykalls7732 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    First learned about these when I was 12. My good friend Jon watched his buddy lose 4 of his fingers on his right hand and had to help find his fingers in a field in the middle of the night.
    After hearing that story is when I decided to give it a try. The trick: ALWAYS use cannon wick that fits snugly and you'll probably be keeping all your fingers. Probably

  • @josephroussel3195
    @josephroussel3195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You don't need powder at all. Take a full co2 cart and 2.5 feet of fuse wrap it tightly around the cart leave 10 or so inch tail for lighting and enjoy

    • @pebo8306
      @pebo8306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That works?????

    • @josephroussel3195
      @josephroussel3195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yup

    • @josephroussel3195
      @josephroussel3195 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You can hold it with some tape or even tinfoil it must be tightly wraped. For the gas to expand and cause the destruction you desire. Please move far away and use proper safety gear

  • @kenstrauss5841
    @kenstrauss5841 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I made these as a kid in the 70s. I epoxied carpet nails to the outside of the co2 cylinder. Set one off in the inside of my dads aluminum shed. The nails were imbedded in a great circular pattern in the shed . The shed leaked in the rain from that day on ! Sorry dad !!

  • @jayday4879
    @jayday4879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    we used to grind match stick heads into a fine powder and cap with bluetack when I was a kid

  • @glasshalffull2930
    @glasshalffull2930 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I worked a crime scene where an adult bully in the neighborhood was targeted with one of these that was used as a boobytrap. It basically blew three of his fingers off. We followed ant trails to locate chunks of the guys fingers.

  • @MrSniperdude01
    @MrSniperdude01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've seen this before, never knew they actually had a name.

  • @kenibnanak5554
    @kenibnanak5554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You should try power augering a small (2 - 3 feet deep) hole in the dirt (minimizes shrapnel effects), dropping the cricket bomb in under a water filled (to add weight, use a syringe) tennis ball. Usually goes pretty high. Angle the hole for a mortar effect. Use water color paint for a splash effect.

  • @AwfulErik
    @AwfulErik 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We used to open firecrackers and make these things all the time as kids. Almost as much as putting The Works and aluminum foil in soda bottles wrapped in duct tape.

  • @Chris_Love
    @Chris_Love 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As you can see things got out of hand here hahaha, just mint!

  • @marke2401
    @marke2401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “keep it at arms length”. Good one.

  • @SWPG
    @SWPG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    DO not add BB's to them, what ever you do.... 😏

    • @imacoonass01
      @imacoonass01 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      and nails.

    • @havok2396
      @havok2396 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could you scale it up to a 25g co2 sized cannister and glue caltrops around it, never, allegedly...?

  • @R005t3r
    @R005t3r 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Back of that shirt is almost as good as:
    " I am a bomb disposal technician.
    If I am running, try to keep up."

  • @paulbalogh7064
    @paulbalogh7064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Impaled pumpkins , where is the justice? Where is the outrage ? PLM! Pumpkins and Those who love them shall have our revenge! Anything left to make pie?

  • @crowley92399
    @crowley92399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We used to make those on the 4th of July with flash powder. They pack quite a punch.

  • @karlfair
    @karlfair 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Made it here from Mrgunsngear and just subbed. This looks like a fun channel.

  • @ericgillespie2812
    @ericgillespie2812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Used to make these as a kid had no clue they had a name. And after seeing the fragmentation im glad I always buried them or used em underwater.

    • @SilvaDreams
      @SilvaDreams 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eh we just called them CO2 bombs, always had plenty of the CO2 cartridge laying about from my pellet rifle.

  • @WASRGP
    @WASRGP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lmmfao! "Eerrr meh geerd that ain't scientific" 😂🤣🇺🇸

  • @uspatriot4261
    @uspatriot4261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Totally amazing that YT is allowing this content

  • @EIBBOR2654
    @EIBBOR2654 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You should try a Cricket-Bomb inside of a cardboard, plastic or PVC tube with BB's as filler around the CO2 container. First one we tried, was in a cardboard container that a 1 1/4 inch end mill came in and set it off in a small room of a dilapidated old farm house. The spread was good and some BB's penetrated the wooden dresser drawers. Second one we used PVC pipe with end caps with the CO2 container inside, caps glued on with one cap drilled for the fuse to stick out. PVC was 1 1/2 with BB's on bottom sides and top of CO2 container. Mix was about 1/2 & 1/2 B/P and Unique Smokeless. Same house but in the slightly larger Kitchen. Several BB's penetrated the metal oven door. blew out the glass in that door, several went through the walls and ceiling, some were in beaded in the wooded floors and there was a lot more damage to that room.
    That old house was on my uncle's farm out in the middle of no where and he was going to burn it down in a few months along with the old barn that had collapsed.

    • @АлакПатрова
      @АлакПатрова ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're now on a watch list

    • @EIBBOR2654
      @EIBBOR2654 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@АлакПатрова What else is new, everyone watching this Ordnance Lab is on a watch list. Anyone that was in the military is on a watch list as is anyone that voted for Trump. Americans are just lazy and stupid. Few look back at history, the Demoncratic party started to get infiltrated by radical Marxist after the 1968 DNC riot in Chicago. Took them just over 20 years to gain a foot hold and start the change in the 1990's. 15 years later they were able to elect a hard radical leftest that was mentored by Bill Ayers, one of the co-founders of the Weather Underground a far-left Marxist militant organization and one of the worst of the 60's radical terrorist groups. But the corrupt FBI did a bunch of stuff illegally and all charges against Ayers was dropped. So he became a professor at University of Illinois at Chicago to corrupt and spawn much of what is happening today.
      The real people that belong on a watch list work in the White House and in the Demoncrat party.

  • @chrisfangeat6651
    @chrisfangeat6651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why am I just finding this channel now? Great video

  • @connorh5335
    @connorh5335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    There was a video out there I saw of some guy losing a hand from one of these (or something similar) , really terrifying. I like keeping my hands so I'll refrain from making these.

    • @felixb.1756
      @felixb.1756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Simply make a pipe bomb when it goes of in your hand you won't even feel a thing!

    • @connorh5335
      @connorh5335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@felixb.1756 popular method in the middle east!

    • @arianaxdr7399
      @arianaxdr7399 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Video?

    • @connorh5335
      @connorh5335 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arianaxdr7399 I dont have it, and honestly dont suggest you watch it

    • @arianaxdr7399
      @arianaxdr7399 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@connorh5335 but is in TH-cam, is not like gore or something like that right?

  • @robshaffer2578
    @robshaffer2578 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Middle finger and thumb came off with one of these back In the late 80s, fortunately had enough parts hanging off to repair , make sure to use cannon fuse not the long piece found in the middle of a Black Cat roll ,

  • @jamesscott9081
    @jamesscott9081 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just found this channel... SUBBED!
    Also, this guy reminds me of me when I was a kid.. Man the 90's were fun!

  • @BobbyOfEarth
    @BobbyOfEarth 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'll never forget when the Newark police came my house at 5:00pm, there to show my parents remnants/shrapnel from by first pipe bomb, clean bust and I didn't even get in trouble. It was 1969, I was 14.

    • @StrangeAeons13
      @StrangeAeons13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hehe, good times.

  • @weshayward7939
    @weshayward7939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    you should do some pre cuts on the co2 canister then compare the two in terms of shrapnel, that'd be super interesting.

    • @LoremIpsum1970
      @LoremIpsum1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Add a frag sleeve.

    • @LoremIpsum1970
      @LoremIpsum1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nightdragon1528 I had to look these up, as they're not well, if at all, known in the UK. Did find some people had been jailed for possession of cricket bombs in the UK, so maybe I'm a bit slow on this...

    • @weshayward7939
      @weshayward7939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@LoremIpsum1970 lol you don't have to own much in the UK to get thrown in jail lol

    • @LoremIpsum1970
      @LoremIpsum1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@weshayward7939 now with anti terror, every pyro enthusiast seems to have given up or gone 'dark', we dont have the ATF, NFA, or PGI here and our pyro chem suppliers are going out of business. We are on a 100g legal device limit for pyros but have few oxidisers we can legally possess without getting 'permission'.

    • @As_Asa_PhD
      @As_Asa_PhD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cuts on the outside aren't very effective. You need the grooves on the inside to work which makes sense.

  • @sadiethepup
    @sadiethepup ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These videos remind me of my wild childhood and the many paddlings on my behind at the behest of my crying & terrified mother.

  • @mikesmith3771
    @mikesmith3771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's all low fragmentation until you put them in a box of bbs then your in trouble lmao

    • @wolfman1589
      @wolfman1589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Welcome to the atf watch list lol

    • @f.morgani3568
      @f.morgani3568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Met THEM..!!
      ATF + E.. EXPLOSIVES..

  • @powertechgrows6093
    @powertechgrows6093 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I knew there was a good reason I was saving all my empty CO2 canisters

  • @ZenFuKid
    @ZenFuKid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "It's all fun and games until someone looses an eye..." -- Duke Nukem

    • @motorgearhead
      @motorgearhead 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’ll put the “smack Dab on your Ass”….. Duke Nukem

  • @clintonachor3323
    @clintonachor3323 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to make these and they were pretty powerful. Years later I made some and they were far less potent. I believe the cartridges were cheapened up "thinner".

  • @jonbennett3946
    @jonbennett3946 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    my boss is missing his thumb, index and middle finger making these as a 12 year old kid in the early seventies.... He told me he didn't even know he was missing his fingers till his younger brother looked at him and took off running. He ran to catch up to see what was wrong and his brother screamed your hand. Haha turn out his brother was running to get help. Moral of the story is fuses are always shorter then you think. That and don't F around with explosive devices.

    • @jman1121
      @jman1121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's always a good rule of thumb. (Sorry, I couldn't help it) but seriously. Do not "play" with explosives. Like firearms, they are not toys to be trifled with.

    • @firstmkb
      @firstmkb 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn, I dodged a bullet on some stuff. I think reading stories from kids losing fingers in the 60's from trying to make rocket motors out of these probably saved my fingers.

    • @bansheemania1692
      @bansheemania1692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thought I was using regular slow burn fuse...Used A Fast burn... Lost Most of my left hearing. No one hurt. But I remember that day

    • @thefirstmissinglink
      @thefirstmissinglink 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have some black "Tattoos " from that short fuse thing. Hand, face. Nothing important 😜

    • @TheEverydayEnthusiast
      @TheEverydayEnthusiast 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My friend did the same thing.. he was blowing up saplings with cricket bombs or co2 bombs as he called them. When he lit the fuse the wind blew and lit the side closest to the bomb and off with his fingers. He wasn't charged with anything the authorities figured he learned his lesson. 2007

  • @virginiascurti5036
    @virginiascurti5036 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are good as blasting caps as well.

  • @azm1k294
    @azm1k294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Funky american make things go kablooey