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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: alfsauve on June 18, 2015, 08:16:27 PM
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Ah, so for US members, THE 4th is coming up. Georgia finally repealed it's fireworks ban and once again we can have pretty much anything the BATF considers "consumer fireworks" including M80s and such.
There are a few restrictions which the local new organizations are reminding us incessantly. Most important.
You can not set of fireworks within 100yds of a Nuclear Power Plant.
Now they aren't clear whether that's measure from the containment vessel, the vessel building or the property line. I'm pretty sure though there's few, if anyone remotely close to this 100yd perimeter. There are only two "plants" each with two "reactors", but it's not like they're in the middle of a subdivision or anything. SO: I've got squirreled away an assortment of theatrical indoor fireworks, which I can now legally set off, especially since I'm no where near the two nuke plants.
WHAT are you up to this year? M80s and Bottle rockets? Maybe M80s dropped by drone in the neighbor's yard?
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No plans yet.
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I'm not planning on buying any this year but in the past I spent $300-$400 a year for several years, mostly on aerial repeaters. The bigger the better and I used to get some 500 gram repeaters, the biggest allowed by law, along with 19-shot and 61-shot repeaters. And as far as I know M-80s are in the same category as pipe bombs and illegal everywhere. There's a Phantom fireworks store within about 2 miles of me now but I used to drive to Toledo to get the good stuff. Right now they have buy one get two free or buy one assortment get one free. They have one called the Grounds For Divorce Assortment which isn't really a very good deal but I like the name. Only 15 days and 33 minutes to go. http://www.fireworks.com/
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M-80's are perfectly legal here in NH, but they are for modern day sissies.
My Dad and I were reminiscing Sunday about how he used to use whole sticks of dynamite when I was a kid.
It was only $18 a case and they threw in the caps and fuze free, so he always kept a case or so on hand "just cuz".
But that was back when this was a FREE country and the 4th was worth celebrating instead of remembering.
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M80's don't seem to be as powerful as I remember them as a kid. Just seem like regular firecrackers that look like the old ones.
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I've been picking up the slightly-out-of-date maritime distress flares at the guns shows. They rocket
up to about 1000 feet and pop out a 30 second red flare on a parachute. Can't remember the
candlepower on the flare.
Other than that I have a saluting cannon that I load with a 35mm film can of black powder, and then stuff a couple of handfuls of green grass down the bore. Great bang, no mess to clean up!
GB
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M-80's are perfectly legal here in NH, but they are for modern day sissies.
My Dad and I were reminiscing Sunday about how he used to use whole sticks of dynamite when I was a kid.
It was only $18 a case and they threw in the caps and fuze free, so he always kept a case or so on hand "just cuz".
But that was back when this was a FREE country and the 4th was worth celebrating instead of remembering.
Ahh the good ol' days..... I ain't old, but I remember being able to buy dynamite at Moultrie Hardware.
About fifteen years ago the ATF and Moody AFB Bomb Tech Unit (Valdosta) got called in to a local Tifton dentist office after the doc found an old case of dynamite he had stored in a closet long ago and forgot about (WTH?). It was a big to-do for our small town.
I also have it on good authority ( *cough**cough* ) that three sticks of dynamite placed under one of those old-timey, solid-built Frigidaire refrigerators will lift the thing about twenty feet straight up, flip it once, and set it right back in the same spot. ;)
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I remember having a crazy great uncle that used black powder to shoot 60# anvil several hundred feet in the air. You would have to dig 4 ' into the ground to get it. One of those, light the fuse and run like hell.
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M80's don't seem to be as powerful as I remember them as a kid. Just seem like regular firecrackers that look like the old ones.
If you get them from a fireworks store they are no more powerful than a regular firecracker and go by names like M-88, M-90, M-98, Silver Salute, etc. That's as powerful as Class C consumer fireworks get. http://fireworksland.com/free-fun-stuff/articles/what-s-an-m-80
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I remember having a crazy great uncle that used black powder to shoot 60# anvil several hundred feet in the air. You would have to dig 4 ' into the ground to get it. One of those, light the fuse and run like hell.
Heck, it's a "sport" now...they have a World Anvil Shoot. The guy in the video is a former champ.
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Yep, onky I remember having to dig it out. Bigger anvils were used. Like I said crazy uncle, his idea of fun was blowing stuff up. Tanerite would have been boring to him. If it blew up or shot something he had it at one point. He had the most bad ass potato gun I ever saw.
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The "modern M-80's" aren't worth crap. I remember several years back on a trip to Florida from Chicago I stopped in either Kentucky or Tennessee and bought a box full of them from one of the roadside stands. They weren't worth a damn. It's the same with modern Cherry Bombs and Salutes. Nothing like when we were kids. The M-80's I bought didn't have enough power to blow the tube apart. They just blew the ends out of it. The older ones would take off half of your hand.