Official Cool Picture - Video Thread.

[Johnny Diamond]

Left them rolled up, put them between two bricks, then whacked with another brick for one really loud BOOM! There might be a few left over that needed individual attention.

Ditto

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[benenglish]

Ditto

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Am I the only one who made an effort to load them into a cap pistol and use them as intended? I don't think I ever enjoyed setting them off with a hammer or on the pavement near as much as using my cap pistols.

 

[Mills]

Am I the only one who made an effort to load them into a cap pistol and use them as intended? I don't think I ever enjoyed setting them off with a hammer or on the pavement near as much as using my cap pistols.

You’re the only one .

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[General Zod]

Am I the only one who made an effort to load them into a cap pistol and use them as intended? I don't think I ever enjoyed setting them off with a hammer or on the pavement near as much as using my cap pistols.

I used them in cap guns - I always found that hitting them with a rock or a hammer didn't give a pop as satisfying as using the cap gun did. I also had a metal "bomb" that you could load a single cap into the nose of and toss like a lawn dart. But, once again, the sound of it hitting a hard surface was as loud as the cap going off. It looked like this:

Sadly, this one isn't mine. But it's identical.

 

[Johnny Diamond]

I used them in cap guns - I always found that hitting them with a rock or a hammer didn't give a pop as satisfying as using the cap gun did. I also had a metal "bomb" that you could load a single cap into the nose of and toss like a lawn dart. But, once again, the sound of it hitting a hard surface was as loud as the cap going off. It looked like this:

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Sadly, this one isn't mine. But it's identical.

I remember those, again bang not loud enough.....lol.

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[Army 1911]

The ones I used were sprocket driven to the next cap. The roll had a cap,a hole, a cap and so on. For some reason I tasted a fired cap and liked it. I also remember cap gun before the matel fanner 50.

 

[General Zod]

I always either had roll caps or ring caps. I like the roll caps better - fewer reloads, and I always had trouble getting the ring caps to extract when they were spent.

 

[TNHoosier]

By the time the plastic ring caps came out I was allowed to use my 20 ga and .22 for hunting. Cap guns were blas'e.

Used my pellet guns for fun.

 

[General Zod]

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Pity the Photoshop artist couldn't find some way to retain the waist guns. BTW, how bout something along the same lines that actually flew?

Behold, the XP-55 Ascender.

 

[Maxrobot]

 

[Maxrobot]

USS Zumwalt. A rather odd design. It didn't work out.

 

[General Zod]

USS Zumwalt. A rather odd design. It didn't work out.

The biggest flaw with the Zumwalt class was the brand new, never before used guns that were installed which required special shells that were $800,00 apiece (amazing technology, but...yeah. Expensive shots.) Then the ammo was cancelled, leaving the destroyers with guns that couldn't be fired. It also suffered from the usual shifting and changing requirements thanks to Congress being themselves, which was a factor in the gun fiasco. They still retain vertical launch tubes and smaller caliber point defense guns.

There is a possibility that the 3rd Zumwalt class ship, the USS Lyndon B Johnson, may have the useless main guns replaced with railguns. The other two ships (USS Zumwalt and USS Michael Monsoor) may be fitted with additional vertical launch tubes, possibly including hypersonic weapons.

The hull design, however, seems to be successful as far as stability and stealth. Check out how little wake there is.

A fun trivia note...the first captain of the USS Zumwalt...was Captain James Kirk. His middle initial isn't T, sadly.

 

[innominate]

Am I the only one who made an effort to load them into a cap pistol and use them as intended? I don't think I ever enjoyed setting them off with a hammer or on the pavement near as much as using my cap pistols.

I used the pistol. The only pavement near my house was the hwy.

 

[stuhoevel]

Am I the only one who made an effort to load them into a cap pistol and use them as intended? I don't think I ever enjoyed setting them off with a hammer or on the pavement near as much as using my cap pistols.

I dont remember using the ribbon in a cap gun. I remember using the red rings in a cap gun revolver.

 

[striker55]

I dont remember using the ribbon in a cap gun. I remember using the red rings in a cap gun revolver.

Youngster!