Bottle rockets are fired, not thrown.
“Bottle rockets are fired, not thrown.”
Never tossed a 12-pak “grenade” of Black Cat bottle rockets?
Bottle rockets are thrown when I don’t have a bottle. In that case timing is everything. release to early and the bottle rocket tips over, ignites and shoots into the ground at my feet. Too late and it ignites while still held in my hand, it then departs from my hand, if I am lucky it takes all the stick with it otherwise I end up with a splinter to dig out. Also I have a nice burn on my hand from the exhaust.
“Bottle rockets are fired, not thrown.”
not always ... we lit and threw them all the time as kids ... it was quite the skill ... sort of like knife-throwing, but quicker ... don’t think it would work real good from a car though ...
Veteran of numerous face masked, overcoat wearing bottle rocket duels.
You sir, obviously did not grow up in a state where children as young as 8 learn to throw bottle rockets. Thinking SC.
And at people too....( Long story...Baja Calif....)
They can be lit and thrown, quite effectively.
Many years ago a buddy of mine’s father owned a junk yard. Every once and awhile they get a car that was still running and in pretty good shape, so he’d put on a dealer plate they had(it was all legal) and we’d use. One summer , (this was in the late 70’s) he had a ‘64 Buick Electra, a four door. when the doors were closed they had a shape to them that made a kind of channel almost five feet long. Well it didn’t take us long to figure out that you could lay a bottle rocket in there, light it and man, did that thing take off! Went for blocks before it blew up. There we’d be tooling down the main street in town on a Saturday night, drinking some beers and if we saw a car ahead of us full of some kids we knew , we’d fire away!