I can't count the number of mail boxes my brother and I blew apart with M-80s when we were kids🤣
@librarianeric9 күн бұрын
A few years ago in Nevada, a buddy of mine and I were waved over by a guy in a truck, selling homemade M-80s and quarter sticks. We got a demonstration of each and goddamn, the explosions were so strong the blast wave gave me heart palpitations. I don't want to know what else this guy was making at home.
@mikemcalister866612 күн бұрын
In the 60s, a silver bomb would go bam. A cherry bomb would go boom, and an M_ 80 would go whoom.
@KerryConrad-o3v14 күн бұрын
M80 and a wrist rocket,bwhat memories 🎉
@wilstjb312215 күн бұрын
Ma would only let me shoot torpedoes and ladyfingers. I rather go in and practice the piano than that.
@johnlyons654415 күн бұрын
M-80’s. We’re the greatest. Me and my friends went fishing. And put on in the fishes mouth. Blew that fish all over the driveway. Ahhhh. The memories 😂😂😂😂
@thomasj.treder797116 күн бұрын
I got hold of just one M-80 ever, back in the early 70s. I was 12. Set it under a coffee can, lit the fuse, jumped a little ways down the side of the (very steep) hill, and covered my ears with my hands. Wondered what was taking so long. Popped back up over the hill just as a wall of smoke rolled over - never heard it!? Then the domed bottom of the can whizzed by my head. Did a quick head swivel looking for shrapnel. None. Where was the rest of the can, then? Looked up. Saw a teeny tiny cylinder tumbling waaaaayy way up in the sky that gradually got bigger until it landed pretty much where it had taken off. So much entertainment for a buck!
@janibeg324716 күн бұрын
m80's were used to blow up pumpkins
@666toysoldier16 күн бұрын
One of those bad boys opened the neighbor's downspout like a flower. Dad always denied responsibility.
@lefty102416 күн бұрын
I’m 70 I can tell as a kid July fourth was a huge bang cherry bombs blew bark off many a tree
@rrmerlin340217 күн бұрын
Once there was the Cherry bomb then came the M-80 followed by the M-1000.
@deadcarz492617 күн бұрын
I miss real fireworks.
@BansheeFifteen17 күн бұрын
My story is when I was at a friends house and he was showing me a M-80 in his folks living room. I questioned whether it was real or not. He lit it and placed it in an ashtray. Bang! His grandfather rushed in and asked "where's the gun". Ha.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458617 күн бұрын
@@BansheeFifteen Lmao 🤣
@chemistryofquestionablequa625217 күн бұрын
Good job! Subbed.
@deanjones926017 күн бұрын
Saw a M-80,, Obliterate A Metal School Locker,,Blew The Door Off,,Blew Metal Shelving Out,,Burned Books,,And Mushroomed The Top Of The Locker As Well,, Essentially Just A Blasting Cap,,About Equal To A Quarter Stick Of Dynamite,,Placed Under A 55 Gallon Drum,,Open End,,,Would Lift A Couple Feet Off The Ground,,,👍💥🛢️💯😆
@deanjones926017 күн бұрын
I Also Remember Several Others,,M- 60,,And M- 70 's As Well,,,We Used Em To Fish With,,Drop Em In,,,💥,,Time To Eat,,,🐟🐠🌊
@ArnoldsDesign17 күн бұрын
Cool. Reminds of 4th of July growing up in rural PA.
@cjg945417 күн бұрын
You’re missing the mother of all fireworks .. the blockbuster. (quarter stick of dynamite)
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458617 күн бұрын
@cjg9454 ik, I didn't have a blockbuster at the time bc it would be wayy to loud for the neighbors bc it would rock their houses in a 1/4 mile radius, 3 grams is my comfort threshold for the neighborhood
@thebubbacontinuum264517 күн бұрын
No M-250?
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458617 күн бұрын
@thebubbacontinuum2645 anything way over 3 grams is past my comfort threshold as it may definitely spook the neighbors as it will sound much more like an ied and rock houses
@carystarke800018 күн бұрын
Stand Closer
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458618 күн бұрын
@@carystarke8000 heck no, not bouta get blasted with end plugs & cherry bomb pieces
@MASTER3RDEYE19 күн бұрын
👍👍
@jadenknight987619 күн бұрын
It’s a little fast I’d use the bp as a starter for the heavier stuff for a good report it would definitely move that piece of wood
@nickdannunzio768319 күн бұрын
My friends would flush cherry bombs and M80s down the toilet between classes in HS... (as the boys and girts heads were back to back toilet wall) it would blow the water out of most all the shitters, as we would know the gals were setters...
@geezberry888919 күн бұрын
never flush an m80 down the toilet
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458617 күн бұрын
@geezberry8889 of course ya don't flush firecrackers down the toilet lol, heard too many stories & damage costs
@boasecuritytechnologies215320 күн бұрын
You’re missing the Block Buster.
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458618 күн бұрын
@boasecuritytechnologies2153 didn't have one at the time bc I didn't want to spook the neighbors too much with one big earth quaking Boom (30+ grams of fp)
@NotAsTraceable20 күн бұрын
My friends dad drove a truck for a living and around July 4th he would come home with bags of M80's. I cannot begin to tell the mayhem we created with those.
@user-pw9lw4uc2g20 күн бұрын
Kindergarten crap where are the blockbusters?
@kevhauser20 күн бұрын
The Silver Salute was shape like the M-80. It Definitely was much more powerful.
@buskman328620 күн бұрын
Are these the REAL ones from the 60's/earlier? The M80 back then was clearly the most powerful as we would constantly demonstrate, launching items from cans to 5 gallon pails. When I was later in training in the US Army, they used M80s against concrete blocks to demonstrate how "tamping" an explosive charge made it much more effective in destroying something like bridge pilings, etc. M80's, cherry bombs, and Ashcans were all waterproof/could be lit/tossed in water...or flushed down a toilet. ;)
@rickyburrows277920 күн бұрын
In Ohio you can get 120 they were called silver salutes. They were better than m80s. When my brother and I were young. We taped together 8 m-80s lit them and ran after the first one went off it blew the other seven all over everywhere we thought we was in war! Funny now but it wasn't back then. 😩
@bobl109021 күн бұрын
Those 3 bombs and a slingshot were crazy fun. Just make sure you launched them straight
@sdingeswho21 күн бұрын
I love the Flash Salute - wasn’t familiar with those! In the late ‘70s in Oklahoma, we could get M-80s easily enough, but by then they had reduced the powder-charge and they were just a slightly bigger bang than a Black Cat. What you have here looks and sounds like a REAL M-80, pre-1970 - older heads in the family had explained to me what M-80s were originally like 😎👍!
@michaelhull6321 күн бұрын
Growing up as a kid we only got Black Cat firecrackers the M-80 was just a legend we heard about
@docalexander285321 күн бұрын
M80's were silver.
@nak465121 күн бұрын
I remember being able to order the parts to make M-80s from popular mechanics magazine in the 60's.
@rocknrolljesus319720 күн бұрын
You can still order any parts or ingredients needed
@tcmurray166121 күн бұрын
I still play with m80's to hear the boom and ecos.
@lettybastien462421 күн бұрын
M-80 rox
@nickfrost977121 күн бұрын
No H-100's?????
@bartschwartz923322 күн бұрын
We blew up garbage can cinder 📦 tree stumps old mufflers etc
@bartschwartz923322 күн бұрын
All 1977-1980ish
@chargermopar22 күн бұрын
Those commercial ones all had such short fuses. The ones I made were more powerful with a foot long fuse.
@nomehdrider22 күн бұрын
I don't remember if it was the M-80 or Silver Salute, but my older cousins said they got them at the C0-Op, I know the box said for Rodent Control on it, I think it was the M-80.
@loucaruso397122 күн бұрын
I had The 1/4 Sticks Before The Composite Sides & With Them !!!!
@nedsackmann221522 күн бұрын
Memories ❤
@kevinhall519922 күн бұрын
Block Busters were the biggest available back then and twice the size of a M-80
@TheGoldenDragonfly22 күн бұрын
The good old days❤
@ms20003623 күн бұрын
M80's used to scare me! 1974, 10yrs old and throwing M80's down the sewers. The sewer gas would ignite. And with bottle rocket fights, it's amazing we survived with all our fingers and toes!
@Qpoueoor23 күн бұрын
Good job Bubbles !
@jacobsrandomvideochannel458623 күн бұрын
@@Qpoueoor Bubbles?
@donadams348723 күн бұрын
I was in the 5 grade walking thru the gym to switch classes. One hundred kids in the gym. Somebody lit and m-80 in the gym all I saw and heard was the flash and bang. Next thing I am on the floor. One of those end plugs hit me in my chest and knocked me out. Had a bruise the size of a softball. I was wearing one of those cotton backed jean coat.