Who remembers comic book character "Sarge Steel" with his steel fist and Luger?

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Originally Posted by spacecoast

Speaking of cap guns, does anyone remember detonating an entire roll of caps at once with a hammer on the sidewalk? We would probably be hauled off to jail on explosives charges if such an evil act was committed today.

Very entertaining and thought-provoking thread...

Yes I remember doing that as a boy on our back steps. Usually I couldn't do the whole roll though and would do like a quarter or half a roll because a whole roll never worked for me with it being too much of its own cushion for me to get a good whack with the hammer against it and the concrete. Maybe because I was too young and not strong enough to whack it hard enough. We also would unroll the cap roll and set them on fire, but they wouldn't blow up and would just go "Pheet, pheet, pheet" as the flame got to each cap dot. Yep, you're probably right, if a kid was seen by the wrong neighbors doing that today, they might call the cops on them. Hopefully not, but you never know in this crazy, anti-gun, politically correct society that stifles as much freedom and fun as possible. We were also told as kids that we could get blood poisoning from handling caps. Well I must have built up an immunity with all the ones I played with, cut myself and got spent cap powder in the cuts, blistered myself (lighting caps on fire) and got cap dust into the popped blisters. And just generally got spent cap dust on my hands from shooting them so much. And it didn't get me sick nor hurt me. We didn't realize just how free we were as kids back then and never gave that norm a second thought. You never miss freedom until you lose it.

Yes this has been a fun reminiscing thread.


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