Spoke guns, who made & shot em?

[RiverBend]

We made em all the time as kids, we used wooden match heads as propellant and #7 1/2 shot from a shotty shell for boolets. We'd curl the wire so it'd stand in its own and set over a flame to go boom. Video below, lots of fun back in the day.

Video of how to make & shoot

 

[JimmyJet]

Ha! Hadn’t thought about that in a hunert years...used to make them as a kid but use a nail about the size of a carpet tack to pack the match head into the spoke end and it also served as the projectile...pack it right and the nail would penetrate a metal mailbox...we called it a tack/nail gun (before they made them things for construction)


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[THREEJAYS]

Yes we did to but had not thought about it in forever, thx for the memory

 

[Hayata]

New one to me. Pretty cool.

 

[08roadking]

Me and my brother used to make those when we were kids. You can also use the match tips to make a new primer for reloading. Or to prime a spent .22

 

[Sparky]

Yup ... Simpler times !!

 

[fattboyzz]

Kool !

Sumthin we didn't do when we was kids