I gave these to my son to play with in a cap *** in 2008 when he was 8. He’s hardly old as shit. But I am.
Thank you for making me feel younger (I’m 26). XD
If you see these and think, “I have no idea what those are, no cap,” you’re too young to be on the internet.
Those were the newer ones.
Oh huh, these came up in conversation at work this week. We smelled something nearly identical while some folks were welding something.
I remember it well…
The smell of the gunpowder. In the play room.
Walmart sells these today. Free delivery.
I shit practically every day, so tell me again how old I am?
Joke is flying over my head. Which age group shits poorly?
Cap gun caps?
Yep. We used to wrap the whole roll around a coin, then cover that up in sellotape and lob them over the fence at school, makes a good bang!
If you know what these are, your knowledge has capped!
I know what they are but I have never seen them in real life nor used them. I had these:
I grew up with both, the paper ones were nice for “other” destructive purposes. And that you had a ton of shots on a roll.
The rings were nice because they always stayed in alignment. The paper ones would sometimes lose their pacing and the hammer would hit the spaces between the dots.
I remember seeing plastic 12 shot rings too.
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.
92, Baltics
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
Wow, I remember having a revolver, it was loads of fun as a kid to actually have the shots go off. Probably infuriating to the adults, which may be why I rarely had any.
The revolver I had constantly burned my hand. Whenever it hit the “bullet”, sparks went straight towards my hand. Still, totally worth the pain.
Naw, the adults were at home. We were outside.
They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95
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.
We used to roll them out like trumps red carpet for maduro, grab some coin and just rip all of them in sequence, wonderful smell
I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip
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.
Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
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.
I’I forgot about the strips! It seemed like those were for early 90’s gangsta era style cap guns. If I remember correctly. Not the cowboy revolvers that came before.
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
I wasn’t that into noir when I was a child.
I may have watched a few too many black and white movies in the 80s, though Eddie Valiant was my hero as well lol
So is it basically the inside of a Christmas cracker?
- Step 1: Be a kid given a cap gun as a toy
- Step 2: Pull the trigger two or three times
- Step 3: Go find a hammer
- Step 3: Go find a hammer
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.
Ah reminds me. My dad did smoke. And as tobacco was taxed differently he had once used one of these small sliding machines to put tobacco into “empty” cigarettes, sold separately.
He had stopped using these and was back to store bought cigarettes when I found his cigarettes and the machine.
I carefully pulled out all the tobacco from one of his Camel filters, and put it back in with the sliding machine - adding the tiniest firecracker I had.
Few days later he was sooooo angry. And the angrier he was the more I had to laugh.
It did explode in his ashtray when he was concentrating at his desk.
Oh fuck, thats was over 40 years ago and I still have to laugh like a madman.
Remembering him fondly, even when he was mad as hell at me the worst that would happen was him shouting.
I absolutely guarantee you he told that story to his friends with a huge smile.
We used the scrape them on the sidewalk with a rock
Is that why afterwards they put the explody paper in those plastic revolver rings?
I thought that was just a different type, but you might be right. Not sure when each of those products were released.
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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.
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
Thanks for doing my intrusive thoughts
See? Scotty doesn’t know…about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!
