And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I used these "toys" when I was a kid back in the 1950s. My grandmother would walk me (she didn't drive) to the neighborhood shop to buy me a box that contained about 4 or 5 rolls of caps. I had a ball for days.
I loved all things with caps too! Then I got stupid, set a full roll on a flag stone, and hit it with a 8 lbs hammer. Heard nothing but a high pitch whine for hours.
Try 18 rounds with a 44.mag with mo ear protection cause you were so excited about the new gun you ordered that you left you hearing protection at home. Took $800 to buy 25 years ago. 6 weeks to get and a 2 week background check after it arrived. No way I wasn't going to run a few through it. Ears still ring so bad I can hardly get to sleep. Protect those ears always. Trust me.
I've always worn hearing protection while shooting, yet have bad tinnitus. Why? Operating heavy equipment all my life without hearing protection - including high pressure air and banging on drill steel with a sledge hammer. Driving all over the country in a soft top Jeep with the top slapping the roll bar probably contributed to it, as well as riding around on the Harley..
But I always protected my hearing from gunfire! Stupid stupid stupid me!
I was always disappointed in those things. They were never loud enough for me. Then my friends and I discovered black powder.... Damn, the things we did as kids would get us thrown under the prison today. Best gopher trap ever, though. Got rid of my friend's parent's gopher problem, but we almost got our ass whupped for the way we did it.
Then the Army wouldn't allow me in to EOD because my hearing wasn't good enough. So, they asked me if I'd ever heard of the Infantry? Shoot guns, blow things up? Okay, where do I sign?
We bought the rockets instead. They were easy for a 4 year old to handle and a box of caps would last awhile. Loved 'em. By the time I was out of Elementary School, they were no more. Can't even find caps anymore. Kids are so deprived these days.
FF, you have a fellow genius. The ringing was instantaneous and prolonged, Of course, one had to suffer in silence lest your stupidity would be revealed.
when i was a kid we made hillbilly hand grenades, appropriately named since I grew up in rural Appalachia, my parents were really upset when I was 12 and they found a half empty pack of condoms in my room, and couldnt decide if they were relived or more upset, when I explained that I was using them to make grenades, we'd put a half tablespoon of gasoline along with a small rock, to give it weight, in a condom and tie it up, then light the end and throw it.
they bought me a shotgun instead, and gave me permission to buy my own motorcycle, with some money Id saved from doing odd jobs.
I used these "toys" when I was a kid back in the 1950s. My grandmother would walk me (she didn't drive) to the neighborhood shop to buy me a box that contained about 4 or 5 rolls of caps. I had a ball for days.
ReplyDeleteI loved all things with caps too!
DeleteThen I got stupid, set a full roll on a flag stone, and hit it with a 8 lbs hammer.
Heard nothing but a high pitch whine for hours.
Welcome to the Tinnitus club.
DeleteWell that explains a lot.... wait.... what’d you say???
DeleteAnd yet you didn't see us blowing anything up! - lol
ReplyDeleteTry 18 rounds with a 44.mag with mo ear protection cause you were so excited about the new gun you ordered that you left you hearing protection at home. Took $800 to buy 25 years ago. 6 weeks to get and a 2 week background check after it arrived. No way I wasn't going to run a few through it. Ears still ring so bad I can hardly get to sleep. Protect those ears always. Trust me.
ReplyDeleteWhat Ned said.
DeleteDo not attend an artillery life fire exercise without ear protection. Same thing.
DeleteI've always worn hearing protection while shooting, yet have bad tinnitus. Why? Operating heavy equipment all my life without hearing protection - including high pressure air and banging on drill steel with a sledge hammer. Driving all over the country in a soft top Jeep with the top slapping the roll bar probably contributed to it, as well as riding around on the Harley..
DeleteBut I always protected my hearing from gunfire! Stupid stupid stupid me!
I was always disappointed in those things. They were never loud enough for me. Then my friends and I discovered black powder.... Damn, the things we did as kids would get us thrown under the prison today. Best gopher trap ever, though. Got rid of my friend's parent's gopher problem, but we almost got our ass whupped for the way we did it.
ReplyDeleteThen the Army wouldn't allow me in to EOD because my hearing wasn't good enough. So, they asked me if I'd ever heard of the Infantry? Shoot guns, blow things up? Okay, where do I sign?
DeleteMy brothers had those. They never seemed to make a truly satisfying bang IMHO.
ReplyDeleteI think I might have had one of them. Man we had cool toys back then.
ReplyDeleteWe bought the rockets instead. They were easy for a 4 year old to handle and a box of caps would last awhile. Loved 'em. By the time I was out of Elementary School, they were no more. Can't even find caps anymore. Kids are so deprived these days.
ReplyDeleteFF, you have a fellow genius. The ringing was instantaneous and prolonged, Of course, one had to suffer in silence lest your stupidity would be revealed.
ReplyDeletewhen i was a kid we made hillbilly hand grenades, appropriately named since I grew up in rural Appalachia, my parents were really upset when I was 12 and they found a half empty pack of condoms in my room, and couldnt decide if they were relived or more upset, when I explained that I was using them to make grenades,
ReplyDeletewe'd put a half tablespoon of gasoline along with a small rock, to give it weight, in a condom and tie it up, then light the end and throw it.
they bought me a shotgun instead, and gave me permission to buy my own motorcycle, with some money Id saved from doing odd jobs.