Shooting Marbles?? Is that smart?

[Billy-by-gosh]

b.p.m.s. hi mark, if fireworks are legal where you are shooting fire crackers out of a smooth bore might be cool. with a light charge... too light them in the bore and not blow them out.. will it work? it may take lots of load testing. you could blow big foot out of his socks.... does a big foot wear socks?? many questions to be answered ....

Hmmm, smokeless powder fireworks on top of black powder in a BP-only muzzleoader? In the CW, they used hollow shells with Black Powder fitted with a timed fuse. But Smokeless; Nope! You might accidentally blow yourself out of your own socks.

 

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You might accidentally blow yourself out of your own socks.

i was thinking 2- or 3 crackers loosely in the barrel. not a 20 pack jammed in the barrel with a ramrod.. if for some reason they did light and not be shot out of the barrel[ not likely] i cant see 2-3 fire crackers blowing up a modern steel barrel. had plenty of them go off in my hand as a kid, still have all my fingers . how much powder ya think is in a standard fire cracker???

 

[SDSmlf]

Hmmm, smokeless powder fireworks on top of black powder in a BP-only muzzleoader? In the CW, they used hollow shells with Black Powder fitted with a timed fuse. But Smokeless; Nope! You might accidentally blow yourself out of your own socks.

Not saying it’s a good idea, but where does one get ‘smokeless powder fireworks’? I have never seen smokeless powder firecrackers.

 

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this started out as a joke. someone made a comment about doing it because mark shot marbles. didnt think it would go this far. lots of strange thoughts like smokeless powder fire crackers, gonna blow yerself and your gun up, ect. let us move on too better things.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

i was thinking 2- or 3 crackers loosely in the barrel. not a 20 pack jammed in the barrel with a ramrod.. if for some reason they did light and not be shot out of the barrel[ not likely] i cant see 2-3 fire crackers blowing up a modern steel barrel. had plenty of them go off in my hand as a kid, still have all my fingers . how much powder ya think is in a standard fire cracker???

Here, hold my beer and watch this.

 

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Here, hold my beer and watch this.

thats it exactly

 

[B P Maniac Shooter]

I really enjoy your videos Mark, makes me wanna go out and shoot after watching some of them. Keep making them and ignore the haters!

Keep on shooting brother...!!
I will continue making videos as long as someone is willing to watch them.
I made a video using that same smoothbore 3 days after making the marble video.
The gun works just fine.
That smoothbore video is going to be posted Sunday morning.
This isn't my first rodeo....I read critical comments occasionally.
It is part of being a YouTuber.
Thanks my friend....

 

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Hmmm, seems like it would be tough to pull a marble....just not good practice for any reason. Someone afraid of lead exposure? Wrong sport no matter what...

Shatter the marble

 

[user 49399]

Keep on shooting brother...!!
I will continue making videos as long as someone is willing to watch them.
I made a video using that same smoothbore 3 days after making the marble video.
The gun works just fine.
That smoothbore video is going to be posted Sunday morning.
This isn't my first rodeo....I read critical comments occasionally.
It is part of being a YouTuber.
Thanks my friend....

It’s funny to me that some folks will load a hundred grains of powder in a .50 caliber rifle and use a ball and patch combination so tight it almost requires a sledgehammer to load it, but will cringe when you load something light and fragile like marbles, arrows, straws, etc.

I read a comment one time where a person said they would never use something like wasp nest or leaves for wadding in their ‘fine’ smooth bore. I suppose they never thought about what the burning black powder was doing to the bore.

Keep up the good videos and I’ll keep watching!

 

[flntlokr]

For fun. It's his gun and his money, don't be such a "stick in the mud".

If the anti-lead crowd get their way, we will all be looking at some sort of (probably) non-metallic ammo. The first time somebody finds some bismuth in a dead eagle or owl, that will go on the forbidden list along with lead. Most of the lead scare is media-driven as we all know; it doesn't leap out of the ground to poison you. Simple precautions are necessary when handling it, but the panic some folks display is unwarranted in most cases.

 

[Blitz]

If the anti-lead crowd get their way, we will all be looking at some sort of (probably) non-metallic ammo. The first time somebody finds some bismuth in a dead eagle or owl, that will go on the forbidden list along with lead. Most of the lead scare is media-driven as we all know; it doesn't leap out of the ground to poison you. Simple precautions are necessary when handling it, but the panic some folks display is unwarranted in most cases.

Yeah you probably won`t believe the reason lead was removed from paint.
Ignorant mothers were / are letting their kids chew on the homes wood work /moldings
I for one cannot envision any person letting a child do such a thing.
I gues I am too old fashioned and believe in taking responsibility for my and others in my care from harming themselves or others.
What a revolutionary idea!

Buzz

 

[Blitz]

Yeah you probably won`t believe the reason lead was removed from paint.
Ignorant mothers were / are letting their kids chew on the homes wood work /moldings
I for one cannot envision any person letting a child do such a thing.
I gues I am too old fashioned and believe in taking responsibility for my and others in my care from harming themselves or others.
What a revolutionary idea!

Buzz

thats it exactly

I remem the construction workers reply to the saftey aid buzzer or whatever it was.
Help I have fallen and I can1t reach my beer.

Buzz

 

[Kansas Jake]

Letting a child chew paint may be negligent but having raised kids it is amazing what the will chew on when cutting teeth or are a toddler. They only need a couple of minutes without full attention. Back in the 70s our youngest managed to chew a hole in the back of the passenger side headrest in a couple of minutes when we weren’t paying attention.

 

[TDM]

That is true.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

It was also present in some water systems that had corrosive water. That's why lead solder was banned in 1976. I think that was the year. It was also a problem with the lead service lines that were used for years because they were flexible, easy to fit and didn't break. I would have liked to have been in Flint MI when all those were changed out. What a great source of roundball material!

 

[Killerangel]

Letting a child chew paint may be negligent but having raised kids it is amazing what the will chew on when cutting teeth or are a toddler. They only need a couple of minutes without full attention. Back in the 70s our youngest managed to chew a hole in the back of the passenger side headrest in a couple of minutes when we weren’t paying attention.

oki doki…

 

[deerstalkert]

i have met people that were convinced that if there was an oz of lead in the same hemisphere as them, they were going to die a agonizing death.
for about 9 years i made a fortune in HazMat abatement . A Karen city council member got his panties in a bunch and forced regulations through that ended up making the cost of liability insurance to over 40k a year. and the liability of chain of custody never ended. i am still liable for the HazMat that i dumped in a certified dump.
in the 70's there was miles of pipe that was imported from Korea. it was seamed and had lead coat on the seam. any water with chlorine, Fluoride etc leached the lead and the pipe as a result failed.
general solder join's have a bare Minium exposure on the inside of the pipe if done proper. a lot of the hysteria was just that. still is.

 

[flntlokr]

Blame a lot of the environmental hysteria on the media taking a molecule of 'evidence' and blowing it up into a mountain of misinformed fear, plus an audience ill equipped to do their own (even limited) investigation to discover the true state of things.

 

[cynthialee]

I wished I had saved it, but I read an account from before F&I war of a village beset by a bear. No one had any roundball for some reason or another and someone took a marble from a child, loaded it up and shot the bear. According to the account the bear did not survive.

 

[flntlokr]

Back in the dark ages, when I was a teen, I made my first muzzle loader. It consisted of a piece of steel pipe hammered closed at the breech end screwed through the 'tang' to a piece of wood that served as a pistol handle. Loaded by dropping a 2-inch firecracker (locally called 'bombs' vs. the skinny firecrackers), and fishing the fuse out through a hole at the breech end (bombs had a looped fuse, and a piece of thin wire with a small hook on the end could be fed in through the flash hole and used to pull the firecracker into the barrel) Then a wad of damp newspaper, a marble, and an overshot wad of paper. Light the fuse and wait for the bang. No marble ever broke in the barrel, but most turned to dust when shot at a concrete wall. Never could hit anything resembling a target more than a couple of feet away. but the marbles went through several layers of corrugated cardboard most times. Good, clean dangerous fun...but if I ever caught my kid doing that....I'd takehim or her out to the range and teach them the right way.