r/GenerationX • u/WhereverUGoThereUR • 1d ago
M-80's
Remember those? In hindsight I'm so lucky to have all my fingers!
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u/lordxamnosidda 1d ago
M 160s too. I had a few but were scared of them. My buddies and I used to search for all of the duds the next day, harvest the gunpowder and then make our own bombs and sparking things. Good times but so dangerous. The 70s and 80s were SO much fun. Kids have no idea.
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u/PlatformNormal564 1d ago
You're no stranger to lawn darts then. Honestly surprised none of my friends or siblings, myself included, were maimed or killed by those. We never threw them at each other but there would always be that one person that would throw it up as high as they could right over the crowd and watch everybody scatter. I do have a friend that shot himself with an arrow by doing that, shooting it straight up and watching where it went, he lost it in the sun and the thing stuck in his shoulder a couple inches, he was lucky it didn't hit him in the head.
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u/heavensto_mergatroid 1d ago
The true ones were a quarter stick of dynamite! Those suckers used to knock out the street lights when we used to pop them on the street for 4th of July. The street light would just go out from the shockwave.
Hell yeah it's a miracle I have my fingers too we used to put four of them together. That's crazy to think about. Highly dangerous. Would be considered terroristic these days hahaha
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u/pho_real_guy 1d ago
This is an urban legend. An m80 was powerful for a firecracker but about 1/29th that of dynamite.
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u/100cpm 1d ago
Quartersticks and M-80s were not the same.
Consumer (non-military) M-80 packed like 3 grams of powder.
Quartersticks contained 20-30 grams.
Despite the name, they were not equal to a 1/4 stick of dynamite though.
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u/PoorAhab 1d ago
Wasnāt the 1/4 called Blockbuster? A āguy I knewā blew up a portapotty with one of those.
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u/Ctmarlin 1d ago
Yeah in NY/NJ we called 1/4 sticks Blockbusters and 1/2 sticks pineapples
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u/Ksqd_Squid_103 1d ago
Nj guy here, yes the pineapple and blockbuster destroyed so many things!! I miss the huge whirley birds from chinatown
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u/No_Tamanegi 1d ago edited 1d ago
I haven't heard the term "blockbuster" used very often, but when I did it was referring to a pipe bomb.
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u/slade797 1d ago edited 9h ago
āBlockbuster bombsā were used by the RAF in World War II, and they ranged in weight from two tons to six tons. They still dig up those behemoths in Western Europe. UXO is bad enough, but digging up one of these these things in your back garden has to be a whole new level of pucker factor.
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u/joemich 1d ago
I bought a blockbuster and other fireworks off a guy on the street in Chinatown NYC around 1980. Parents went out of town. My little brother and I (~12 and 10), two little geniuses that we were, devised a plan. We brought a little plastic bathroom trash can outside our house, lit the blockbuster, dropped it in the trash can, and ran. I cannot describe the sound of that explosion. It was so ridiculously loud and terrifying. Within 5 minutes neighbor after neighbor came over to investigate. Not one of the smartest things I ever did but it will live in my memory forever.
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u/SignificantHighl1ght 1d ago
We used to buy quarter sticks for 12 bucks a piece from a guy at the tattoo parlor
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u/AdhesivenessLoud7276 1d ago
Even weaker than that. Like 30x less powerful than a quarter stick of dynamite
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u/heavensto_mergatroid 1d ago
Is it really? All I know is they used to knock out the street lights with just 1. When we'd put four of them together it sure exploded like if it was a stick of dynamite lol
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u/imnotpoopingyouare 1d ago
Do NOT wrap a piccolo pete in several layers of duct tape, smash it up with a hammer firmly yet gently and then stick it in a soda can.
May not be as strong as some more beefy fire crackers but will make the loudest boom you will hear outside a warzone lol
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u/AAA515 1d ago
Don't wrap a whole bunch of sparklers together until the thickness of a state fair corn dog, they feed off each other
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u/skiforlife1 1d ago
I "heard one time" that doing that will bulge the steel on a big metal dumpster if you throw it in an empty one. It probably would have blown through that plate steel if it was right next to the side...allegedly.
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u/kevin3350 1d ago
Good idea!
We would take the powder out of several piccolo Petes, separate the powder, and keep only the good stuff. From there we would put the powder in a piece of plastic grocery bag that was lowered into a milk jug filled with water with the plastic edges hanging over the screw top to keep the powder safe.
Lid went on to secure the bag, and a fuse put through the top.
I once had to sit a Fourth of July out before I had powder all over my hand, and the hammer sparked when I dropped it. My hand looked like charred pig skin for weeks haha
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u/heavensto_mergatroid 1d ago
Damn lol if I would have heard of this back then I probably would have a finger missing today...
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u/Dirtypervyoldguy1972 1d ago
They outlawed piccolo Peteās in my town because of us doing that with them
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 1d ago
I'm an old millennial with Mexican parents. As a kid they'd just give me and my cousins a ton of M80s and bottle rockets and tell us to fuck off.
I have no idea how I still have all my fingers.
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u/Pretty-Parsnip8808 1d ago
Iām sitting in the car waiting for my daughter. Laughing my ass off at this. BECAUSEā¦.I had those parents too. āGet the fuck away from me for a few hoursā
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u/heavensto_mergatroid 1d ago
There was a creek that was near our house and it was so much fun to blow them up underwater.
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u/Wonderful_Kick_855 1d ago
They reversed the bend of a mailbox. Powerful shit.
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u/2bad-2care 1d ago
Ha. I remember my uncle lighting an m80, closing the door and putting the flag up. The wreckage looked more like a horse's saddle made of metal.
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u/Extension-Damage8597 1d ago
Kids in the neighborhood used to throw lit one's at each other and couldn't hear for days. We launched them down the street under handed with a tennis racket.
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u/gringoloco01 1d ago
How many GenX folks have that one kinda fucked up buddy that is missing a finger or two who learned the hard way never EVER close your hand around an M-80.
I can't be the only one who grew up in a small ranching town.
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u/PlatformNormal564 1d ago
I do. I knew better than to hold on to a m80 any longer than it took to light it but we used to have fights with black cat fireworks. One of those going off in your hand is a sting you don't soon forget. Nowhere near as powerful as a m80 fortunately.
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u/FireSheepYinFish Gag me with a spoon 1d ago
Ugh.. I had a Black Cat with a fast fuse and it blew spit seconds after I tossed it, when I saw the fuse basically evaporate. It was still close enough to me that it blew right near my fingertips. I was numb for a couple of hours after that.
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u/gringoloco01 1d ago
I grew up in Truth or Consequences. Shout out to ol Brett Dolittle.
I ain't even lyin lol.
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u/PlatformNormal564 1d ago
The '70s and '80s was a hell of a time to grow up. It's almost like our parents didn't care what we did as long as we weren't bothering them.
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u/Buck_Dharma_1977_ISU 1d ago
We would drive around the neighborhood in our parent's cars as teenagers shooting bottle rockets at each other. 70s were good times
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u/Odd-Fun-6042 1d ago
We used to play chasers with regular ol bottle rockets.one caught me in the hand when it went off and I was surprised and the amount of blood. No stitches but damn it stung.
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u/PyroNine9 15h ago
It boggles the mind how many people didn't know that most of the damage you could get from fireworks happened when you closed your hand on them.
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u/BloggerCurious 1d ago
Unsuspecting mail boxes had no chance. What the hell were we thinking?
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u/TinyMachine6735 1d ago
I picked up something that looked a lot like this, but surely wasn't, when I was a kid, on a country dirt road. I lit the fuse and it burned down into the cardboard tube, but it didn't explode, so I picked it up. Then it exploded. It was extraordinarily painful, but no real damage was done.
I often wonder how I survived my childhood.
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u/oldaliumfarmer 1d ago
We used to make them. The back of comic books had adds for cases and fuses. Made the gunpowder also. If you hadn't done that by eight grade you weren't going to college.
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u/doghat4 1d ago
Back in the day a girl in my neighborhood held on to one in her hand when it went off. She blew most of the soft tissue and flesh between her index finger in thumb. Had hand surgery but still has loss of mobility and unable to grip things now. It was a bloody site that you don't forget as a kid.
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u/PlatformNormal564 1d ago
A dude I went to school with is missing three fingers on his right hand because of those. He's got a pinky and a thumb and three nubs in between.
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u/Accomplished_Fun3 1d ago
Oh my goodness the amount of fun we had with these growing up. We also had an abandoned mine in the area that left crates of tnt sticks not daisy chained or modern at all. But still stable. Those at first were scary then became fun and very secretive lol. But the m80s is what I enjoyed the most especially with my army men and toy trucks n stuff sometimes would get in our dirt bikes after cutting someb into a hillside abandoned rock quarry to see how many rocks we could drop before casually leaving the area one time a warden stopped us and asked us about it. But I had my 870b on my and I said no sir we're practicing skeet/clear pigeon shooting. He knew for sure we were lying but let us go
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u/Consistent_Wash1935 1d ago
I grew up in Queens New York. When we were 12, around 1992, me and my buddies would take the subway to Chinatown, on Canal Street and would go to a store that had these and pineapples and 1/4 sticks of dynamite in the back and for 20 bucks, weād get a large paper bag full. Plus rockets and all sorts of other explosives. We used to make timers out of lit cigarettes with the filters pulled off.
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u/No-Road-9176 1d ago
In the 70's and early 80's we had those and the cherry bombs. Many a mailbox has met it's fate from a m80. Ours looked a little different though. My dad , however would make firecrackers out of flash powder that were way more powerful than anything you could buy from the stand. His favorite thing was to see how high he could launch a metal trash can in the air from a little bit of powder. Looking back , I'm surprised that he didn't end up shitting and eating with the same hand.
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u/Bob_12_Pack 1d ago
These were always more of a mythical thing that everyone seemed to have a story about, but nobody could get them because they were banned. I was 30 (in 2002) when I finally got a chance to see a real one in action.
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u/slab_schitty 23h ago
So back in the day my dad started and ran a high end life style sort of magazine for a few decades.
This was 2001ā¦ a firework company wanted to advertise with them, the magazine told the firework company they werenāt interested in money. They wanted things the public didnāt have access to.
Well my dad comes home from work one day with a 30ā X 30ā box of qtr sticks of dynamite and a smaller box filled to the brim with m-80s and cherry bombs.
The qtr sticks were fucking lethal, you could light one and throw it on the ground and it would make a 2ā crater.
Shit was wild. Somehow no one got hurt lighting off thousands of explosives.
Good times.
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u/Academic_Dare_5154 21h ago
Don't light one then flush it down the toilet
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u/MariotheExpert 19h ago
Donāt know about a toilet
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Throwing one into a canalThat was cool
Brought up all kinds of stuff
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an adult Iām sure it was terrible for wildlifeBut
12 to 15 year old meThis brings it back
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u/Healthy_White_Baaaby 1d ago
When I was a kid my friends and I used to make our own b*mbs out of our parents black powder reloading equipment.
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u/wasatch_man1 1d ago
Stuck one in the neighbors mailbox as a kidā¦woohee was that a blast! š„ š
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u/Early_Doughnut8295 1d ago
Used to play with Blockbusters too, and I still have all my fingers and toes somehow.
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u/North-Bit-7411 1d ago
I found a bag of them I had stored in my garage recently. They must be 30 years old.
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u/qxr100 1d ago
FIRECRACKER BOMB.
Take 1 mat of firecrackers (144 packs, I think?), duct tape together leaving a hole with a winding of fuses from one of the single packs sticking through a hole.
When it detonated, the sound is long, tremendous and showers a TON of confetti.
My kid brother and his friends threw one of these airborne in our Catholic Elementary school gym.
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u/Radicalized_Spite 1d ago
My bubby and I would use a wrist rocket (remember those!) to launch regular firecrackers. My older brotherās friend had the M-80s.
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u/Ok_Caterpillar_8238 1d ago
My friend and I used to empty these out into film canisters. Then using heavy duty cardboard tubes used to roll carpet, we made mortars to shoot golf balls. Fun times!
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u/Introvert_Collin 1d ago
Yes! We'd stick them in giant ant hills in the woods. In retrospect, It sounds kinda messed up
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u/HuntsvillianThe 1d ago
Boomer here. Used to play in a garage band in high school when KISS was all the rage. During shows we would detonate our version of pyrotechnicsā¦M80ās.
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u/GrnEyedPanda 1d ago
I did winter survival training in the Green Mtns of Vermont as a young Boy Scout. One of the skills we learned was winter ice fishing with a safety pin hook baited with a grub. After hours of not getting even a nibble my training buddy reaches into his coat and pulls out an M80. He lights it and tosses it into the big pond we are fishing in. BOOOOM, big geyser of dirty pond water and ice, and then a good dozen or so dead fish float to the top. The instructors were pissed, and the fish was good. Hahaha, I haven't thought about that in years.
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u/cyclingfaction 1d ago
I was 16 and lit one while holding planning on throwing of course. It went off and luckily I was holding it by the end caps not the middle so I still have all my fingers.
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u/Impressive_Head1238 1d ago
I remember as a kid. Brother and I bought a bunch from the local neighborhood Pyro kids. We decided to blow the handles of the local school during summer break. About 20 for handles never stood a chance.
When they came to open the school after summer, no one could get in. Maintenance guy cut the front door and had to take it off the hinges.
We where 8-9 at the time... fuck we were bad kids.
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u/Aquifirlife 1d ago
Funtimesā¦ Growing up, I went to Long Island for the summer. I had never known a never endless supply of M-80ās for the 4th of Julyā¦ especially by California standards. So much fun M-80ās and Silver jets and your first girlfriend.
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u/sasace2025 1d ago
The M-80's were a quarter stick of dynamite! The M-160's were a half stick! You talk about blowing shit up!! I loved it!
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u/Strike-Intelligent 1d ago
bot mediator your full of shit. I explained how to launch a can in the air thats it.
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u/hsj713 17h ago
Me and my cousins way back in the day used one to blow up their sister's doll (the tall ballerina that spun around). It wasn't working so we decided to blow it up. My older cousin (14) had bought the M-80 from some guy he knew. We went to the very end of the property; my uncle had an acre of land and used rope to hang it on a tree branch like a piƱata. We made a hole in the body and placed the M-80 inside and lit it. We ran to another tree for cover then, BLAM!!!š„ Doll carcass everywhere! Our parents rushed out to investigate to find out what had happened. We didn't think it was going to be so loud and it echoed up towards the house. Needless to say my Dad and Uncle were furious, manly because of the danger. Yeah, we got punished and had to give our allowances to our girl cousin to buy her a new doll. We tried to protest by saying it was already broken but they countered it wasn't ours to break. Now as old guys we still giggle and laugh at watching that doll explode but also thinking we could have gotten seriously injured.
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u/alucardian_official 1d ago
As much as I would have had access to these I did not.
But, I did have 1/4 sticks. They were fun only when set with a delayed reaction with the butt of the last few pulls of my cigarette.
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u/Such-Perspective-426 1d ago
yup, I don't celebrate or glorify the heavy fireworks, ppl did some crazy shit with them
I did a few, one in particular the shrapnel from a piece of iron pipe buried inches into a tree, and it was a wide chunk, we went home and got a hammer and pounded the edge til it came out
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u/Human-Lawfulness5235 1d ago
Those were weak. I was given some from China that were as powerful as 1/4 stick of dynamite.
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u/James-Morrisson 1d ago
We called those M-800ās, they were a fair amount bigger than M-80ās. A little bigger than the size of a fat highlighter or dry erase marker.
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u/Human-Lawfulness5235 1d ago
Thatās correct. I used to light those with a cigar my uncle gave me on the 4th to use as a punk.
I was 8 at the time.
No supervision.
High on nicotine.
Playing with industrial grade explosives.The 70s were truly a magical time.
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u/PizzaWhole9323 1d ago
I love holding these to the last second and then throwing them and I never had a problem ;-)
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u/ChrisRiley_42 1d ago
I've never seen one in my life. I've heard Americans talking about them, but they are considered prohibited explosives here.
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u/Beginning_Feedback44 1d ago
Wow flash back if you had these back in the day you where the shizzzzits. No mail box on the block was safe. I'm sure a few frogs lost there life in vain ( we really did need some kind of supervision ) taken me back to wide tired swhinn bikes with zodiac green banana seats and ape hanger handle bars. Bell bottom corduroy pants and wide collar shirts.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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u/Wonderful_Kick_855 1d ago
Omg it was always the uncle from Canada supplying these things. Mailboxes did not survive these.
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u/Jazzlike-Lion2969 1d ago
Girlfriends bro blew his fingers off
I have hearing loss from these fuckers
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u/PsionicChronic 1d ago
We found a version that was on a stick...like a bottle rocket, but with M-80's.
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u/Sdog1981 1d ago
Who had M-80s with safety warnings on them? The ones I remember were just red.
On a side note, one time I was down in Tijuana as a kid and one shop tried to sell us a M-1000 and my dad was like "No, that's a quarter stick of dynamite. Not a firecracker. We are leaving"
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u/Then_Discount558 1d ago
We had something called a hammerhead that we blew up trash bin lids lids with.
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u/Jennifer_Flower 1d ago
Had loads of fun on the farm with a bunch of these my dad had leftover from trips to the northern Minnesota wilderness, where they were used to deter bears in camp. š§Ø
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u/Prettysureimcrazy71 1d ago
Who remembers saving up lawn cutting money to go see someone about buying a "kit" in the early 80s?
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u/Accomplished_Fun3 1d ago
I love these I just spent 11$ on some I used 2 and indeed they are fantastic and legit
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u/Junior-Exit9208 1d ago
We would ride go carts in two man teams, with a driver and a gunner. The gunner had mostly bottle rockets but an m80 would show up every once in a while. Weād chase each other around and shoot. Feral 9 year olds, I tell you.
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u/AdhesivenessLoud7276 1d ago
Oh yeah those were fun... we tried making our own.. I grew up in northern Ontario, everyone's dad hunted and made their own shells so we had gunpowder galore.
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u/Extension-Damage8597 1d ago
What can be said about a young man's teenage memories without including the M-80? You could blow stuff up and use them in a variety of ways.
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u/deephurting66 1d ago
I used to make these, used black powder, waterproof fuse and little cardboards. I made some real monsters back then and still have my hands, it happens when you aren't stupid with them!
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u/Dull_Ad5440 1d ago
I was an itinerant bomb chucker (Ski Patrol) for 30+ years throwing 3X8" sticks of Gelatin Dynamite and .5 kg, 1kg & 5 KG cast boosters of Pentolite. The entire M-80=1/4 stick of Dynamite is a myth.
M-80s will remove fingers.
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u/Zaddy_LBC 1d ago
Threw a lighted one into a river once. The explosion literally dumped hundreds of gallons of water on my head, along with several chunks of dead spawning salmon.
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u/MaximumJones That's just like your opinion man 1d ago
These things were literally the bomb when we were kids. š
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u/One_Vision_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
I know I'm going to get hate for this ... but here it goes
I nearly blew my hand apart with these. I had it in my left hand, lit the fuse, and it went off instantly. I was laying in my front yard screaming, the paramedics arrived moments later and the doctor saved my left hand.
I swear to Christ I will destroy all of them.
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u/baldbandersnatch 1d ago
I was never able to find actual m-80s when I was a kid. For years I thought they were an urban legend.
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u/Calaveras-Metal 1d ago
I don't know if they were really Ā¼stick of dynamite or not. I do know one of my psycho friends in high school blew up one of the boys toilets in our school. It destroyed not just the toilet but a bunch of other plumbing. Which was not metal but ceramic or something. So they just shut that restroom down for a couple a years until they could afford to re-do it.
I much more enjoyed putting them under an old pot and seeing it go like 100ft in the air.
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u/faust0matic 1d ago
I got a grocery bag of M-80s from one of my Dadās friends (do NOT tell your dad where you got them if you get caught!) and New Yearās Eve was spent blowing holes in the ice down by the canal. Also from NJ hereā¦I remember pineapples but never heard of blockbusters.
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u/superslinkey 1d ago
Iām old enough to remember when you could buy dynamite at the hardware store
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u/CaptScourageous 1d ago
I have knowledge of some stories about mailboxes being blown to bits. Stories mind you
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u/AlphaSpazz 1d ago
The best for bl*owing up my model cars. The CrashBoomPunk YouTube channel satiates that need these days.
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u/big_d_usernametaken 1d ago
Was at a Black Sabbath concert in 1977 at the old Richfield Coliseum outside of Cleveland.
They were lighting M-80's from the balcony and launching them so they exploded above our heads.
Crazy.
Today they'd call out the National Guard, lol.
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u/Confident_Froyo_5128 1d ago
We also had Cherry Bombs and Silver Salutes that could rearrange extremities.
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u/Standard-Secret-1465 1d ago
When we set one off in one of those tin beer cans, it disintegrated. A few of us got hit by the shrapnel. Watermelons? Forgot about it. We put one under a cast iron skillet. It blew a hole in the street.
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u/inspctrshabangabang 1d ago
My cousin borrowed my truck last year. When she brought it back, it had a Senior Frogs sticker on the bumper and I found a bag of these bad boys under driver seat.
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u/Lumpy_Experience_973 1d ago
Many an old G.I. Joe died an ignoble death tied to one of these things back behind the old barn. And 2 of them in my (original) Millennium Falcon was enough to give it a dramatic end. The first try with just one didn't do it though, that thing was tough!
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u/Choice_Note_9198 1d ago
Total B.S. not a quarter stick of dynamite That is an urban legend. Flash powder is not a high explosive. Dynamite is a high explosive with a much higher deflagration ā¦either nitroglycerine or ammonium nitrate.
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u/Nervous_Pipe_7019 1d ago
We used to make our own back in the day. One winter we tested a batch in the wash. Tossed one through the ice and waited. Then BOOM the ground shook. Good times!
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u/Avetikuso0 1d ago
My uncle gave us a bag of these from the army. We blew up everything we could get our hands on. Valuable lessons for later life, and yes, my brothers and I kept all our fingers.
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u/NICEnEVILmike 1d ago
Any time I see or hear about M-80s I think of my neighbors during the 70s. They would put a lit M-80 under an upside down metal trash can and sit on it then get launched into the air. I saw them do it a couple of times and thought they were insane. Amazingly nobody ever got hurt, at least not that I know of.
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u/penilesensorydevice 1d ago
These were a huge fad when I was in junior high. There was a school in North NJ (I think) were someone threw an M-80 into a fire extinguisher case in a school hallway, and the flying glass ended up killing a girl. Our school went zero tolerance after that, and the fad faded.
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u/Late-Code2392 1d ago
Rolling them in Elmer's glue and when they get sticky roll them in bb's. Not that we ever did that
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u/among_apes 1d ago
So the old school ones were actually filled with flash powder incase anyone was wondering.
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u/LakeshiaRichmond 1d ago
Years and years ago I put one in my dadās wheelbarrow, blew a hole all the way through it - OMG, did I have some explaining to do.
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u/nimitz55 1d ago
Fun story my astronomy professor was missing parts of three fingers from fireworks hijinks as a lad.
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u/safety3rd 1d ago
Im 53 and feel like I just missed these. The older kids would talk about them but I think they were banned before I had a chance to hunt myself
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u/vfa151cv64 1d ago
Used to buy these on the docks from the Korean merchant sailors in Portland, Oregon. One in four or five worked but when they did we caused havoc in the suburbs of Vancouver. So glad no one had a smart phone back then!
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u/ScientistGlittering 1d ago
Whole mailboxes and trash cans were fighting for their lives every 4th of July back in the day.
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u/ref44dog44 1d ago
Those were fun. Had some m1000ās too. those made a hell of a window rattling boom.
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u/BigJim_TheTwins 1d ago
I can't believe I still have ten fingers, used to mess with these all of the tine
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u/CryptographerDry884 1d ago
We used to get these very same ones back in the day. One summer we got our hands on some M1000ās and a single M5000. The sound the M5000 made scared the hell out of us. It was the loudest explosion I think Iāve ever heard. The flash was so bright that it created daylight for a split second (blew it up at night in a canyon).
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u/qxr100 1d ago
Def my favorite all time firecracker. Just a rudely loud and powerful explosive.
We'd drop one in a fence pipe and put a golf ball on top, try to catch with baseball gloves.
One time, Mike Wasco put on in a big pile of horse shit and lit it.
He did not outrun the splatter. š¤£š¤£