We put them under empty 5 gallon buckets to see how far they’d launch. It was actually pretty impressive.
No mud balls though, never saw or heard of that.
The fun really started when we discovered that cherry bomb and m-80 fuses were water proof.
The drum became a round bottomed shell casing for a water bullet that stayed together until it fell back to earth.
Sometimes I wonder how cousins and I escaped death 50 years ago.
Did you know that a common toad can out jump a bull frog when you touch his tail with a jumper wire from an electric fence? And a cousin can jump even further when you give him a jumper wire with a break in the insulation?