Pop the whole roll at once.
Light it on fire.... or so a friend told me
I left mine on the carpet in my room. My mom came in to vacuum one day and thought it was just some scrap paper.
She was not amused by the 2 inch burnt mark it left on the carpet, or the shock it gave her.
We used the scrape them on the sidewalk with a rock
A friend and I had the bright idea to hit a whole roll of those with a hammer. We also were smart enough to know that it should be on something hard, like a garage floor. We also knew that we didn't want anyone to see us. So, we made sure all the garage doors were good and shut. I swear, it literally blew his hair back, and my ears have been ringing ever since.
See? Scotty doesn't know......about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!
We did the same thing, but I was the smart dumbass who knew that's how you lose fingers, so I had us hide behind a board and drop a bowling ball into it. It cracked the fucking ball! My parents were livid
Can still smell the burnt sulphur
I remember it well...
The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.
You can still get the plastic revolver style.
Yeah these rolls were way better though you got a lot more shots too.
I had at least a few and they never fucking fired right like 95% of the time. The clack of the hammer was louder than the damn cap itself.
Later I got one of those that takes an orange revolver style cap set and they were so much more reliable. Except you ran out of ammo in like 3 seconds and getting a parent to go buy more of those expensive ass refill things was nearly impossible.
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Cap gun caps?
Me three guesses are glue dots, weird tape, or something used for fireworks.
cap pistol cap rolls.
edit: I held and used them, they were common u til the early 80's at least as far as I know.
They were still common in the 90s. Not sure about the 00s though
you can still get them. My friend just gave his son his old cap gun and got a bunch of rolls.
Walmart sells these today. Free delivery.
I can smell them too.
It was fun to take a hammer and hit the entire roll at once. They actually made quite the noise.
For reference, I was born in 1970 so yeah I grew up with those things.
I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
Can I ask you when you were born? Because I remember using the paper strips when I was really young and then at some point they dissapeared and got replaced by those plastic rings. I was born in 94.
similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older
I used both. Am from 93.
I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.
you could also get the whole strip with a thumbnail of you just wanted to have some fun
I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
The paper cap guns just need to be maintained. You have to clean out the residue that builds up or the paper won't cycle smoothly through it.
The experience I had was that the hammer wasn't consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
Usually what would happen is the residue builds up on the parts that feed the tape up so it would stick, and lose index. The hammer would land between caps because the tape wasn't advanced the distance it needed to be.
If you clean all that off so the tape consistently advanced the correct amount you wouldn't have issues.
True but it's also easier to pretend you're a grizzled noir detective reloading his snub nosed revolver when you use ring caps
I think there was even one more evolution where the plastic caps came in a strip instead of a ring. The strip was put in a magazine that slid into the bottom of the pistol. Most of them just moved the strip up as they fired, but if I recall correctly there were even ones that cut each cap off individually after firing it and ejected it like an empty shell. Awful for litter, but pretty cool for cap gun technology. I am pretty sure all of this stuff has been banned where I live.
Oh for sure there will be an archeologist in my old neighborhood in a couple hundred years wondering what the significance of all these round plastic rings they excavated is lol
Do they not make cap guns anymore?
Nah. Now kids want the real thing. They show off their guns at school and trade bullets.
/darkhumor
Especially all the kids with the pumped-up kicks.
The other kids are the ones with pumped up kicks.
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