Brian Elliott wrote:
> I also used to make bangs with two large bolts, one large hexagonal nut 
> and a lot of match-heads.  Half-screw one bolt into the nut, scrape the 
> phosphorous from several matches into the well, screw in the other bolt, 
> then throw it at a concrete surface or hit it end-on with a hammer.  
> Four or five heads was enough to make a bang.  Twenty matches was enough 
> to make an air-splitting gunshot explosion.  On that occasion, one bolt 
> completely stripped out of the thread and went so far from the point of 
> impact that we never found it.

Nice. I was always an aerosol-can-on-the-campfire person myself. 
Especially good if there's still plenty of deodorant in the can - you 
get a nice big fireball as well as the bang. Of course, best viewed from 
behind a tree twenty feet away.

My venture scout group used to do a christmas weekend away in late 
december - we'd rarely camp, but stay in the huts on this particular 
small campsite and do christmas dinner etc. One year we put a large 
aerosol can inside the turkey carcass and put it on the fire that we 
were using to burn the rubbish. Bits of turkey bone were landing a 
quarter of a mile away!

:D

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