M80 👍🏼

I can't count the number of mail boxes my brother and I blew apart with M-80s when we were kids🤣

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.

In the 60s, a silver bomb would go bam. A cherry bomb would go boom, and an M_ 80 would go whoom.

M80 and a wrist rocket,bwhat memories 🎉

Ma would only let me shoot torpedoes and ladyfingers. I rather go in and practice the piano than that.

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 😂😂😂😂

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!

m80's were used to blow up pumpkins

One of those bad boys opened the neighbor's downspout like a flower. Dad always denied responsibility.

I’m 70 I can tell as a kid July fourth was a huge bang cherry bombs blew bark off many a tree

Once there was the Cherry bomb then came the M-80 followed by the M-1000.

I miss real fireworks.

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.

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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,,,👍💥🛢️💯😆

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,,,🐟🐠🌊

Cool. Reminds of 4th of July growing up in rural PA.

You’re missing the mother of all fireworks .. the blockbuster. (quarter stick of dynamite)

No M-250?

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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

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...

never flush an m80 down the toilet

You’re missing the Block Buster.

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.

Kindergarten crap where are the blockbusters?

The Silver Salute was shape like the M-80. It Definitely was much more powerful.

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. ;)

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. 😩

Those 3 bombs and a slingshot were crazy fun. Just make sure you launched them straight

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 😎👍!

Growing up as a kid we only got Black Cat firecrackers the M-80 was just a legend we heard about

M80's were silver.

I remember being able to order the parts to make M-80s from popular mechanics magazine in the 60's.

I still play with m80's to hear the boom and ecos.

M-80 rox

No H-100's?????

We blew up garbage can cinder 📦 tree stumps old mufflers etc

All 1977-1980ish

Those commercial ones all had such short fuses. The ones I made were more powerful with a foot long fuse.

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.

I had The 1/4 Sticks Before The Composite Sides & With Them !!!!

Memories ❤

Block Busters were the biggest available back then and twice the size of a M-80

The good old days❤

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!

Good job Bubbles !

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.