Thread: Spent rimfire casing uses?

Those were the years when we had very few toys. Whatever fun you had, you often had to make alot of toys yourself. Bows, arrows, shanghais etc...and some of the games with 22 cases etc were certainly none too safe. I remember the cases went off with a nice bang with a smack from the hammer, and I remember the bolt bombs too - though I didn't do them. Seem to remember we tried smacking an old 303 case full of match-heads too - can't recall what happened. Cousin lost an eye building some sort of bomb - so that put the kibosh on that one!!

I do remember finding couple of nests full of old rotten duck eggs, so little mate and I waited up a bank in the scrub for the local Waikato Times paper delivery car to come past under us. Perfect shot. As he came through cutting he got about a dozen rotten eggs across windscreen and bonnet. Splattered everywhere - hell of a mess - man it would have stunk! He's out of the car swearing like hell while two little 8 years old scarpered through the bush back to the home - laughing fit to bust. Got away with it too... What country boys did before the internet...

However....whacking 22 cartridges in the vice has to get a prize. Strewth that's unsafe - surprised most of us made it...