Fireworks fans

[hevnsnt]

I always drop a lot at the 4th..

If you can find them.. STOCK UP on THUNDERKINGS 😛 (trust me you will like it)
And I always buy 2 300ct saturn missle bricks and light them at the same time. (600 little whistling plastic rockets going off kicks ass)

 

[atybimf]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Make your own. Blackpowder FTW!

 

[spidey07]

Ah man, I love this time of the year. blowing crap up.

Let's keep this thread going. I hate to brag, but I spend over 2 grand on firewoks every year and it is so much fun. Watch the videos of these shells.

http://www.fireworks.com/fireworks_gallery/category.asp?page=6&sid=11&cid=2

good mortars, this is basically how "real" fireworks are done. Charge to expel the payload and then the pop to break open the shell. Repeaters are the same way, but they are pre-loaded.

You generally get what you pay for. Talk to the guys at the fireworks shop, they know what is good. Just be carefule and never shoot a mortar/repeater if it isn't secured or on concrete.

It's never fun to have the crowd ducking from for their lives because a cake/repeater has turned over and firing rith into the crowd. Be careful and be prepared (water, secure the firework, etc) Don't light the big guys on grass unless you firmly secure it with bricks.

 

[Accipiter22]

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE FIREWORKS!!

the 4th is my favorite holiday season

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Ah man, I love this time of the year. blowing crap up.

Let's keep this thread going. I hate to brag, but I spend over 2 grand on firewoks every year and it is so much fun. Watch the videos of these shells.

http://www.fireworks.com/fireworks_gallery/category.asp?page=6&sid=11&cid=2

good mortars, this is basically how "real" fireworks are done. Charge to expel the payload and then the pop to break open the shell. Repeaters are the same way, but they are pre-loaded.

You generally get what you pay for. Talk to the guys at the fireworks shop, they know what is good. Just be carefule and never shoot a mortar/repeater if it isn't secured or on concrete.

It's never fun to have the crowd ducking from for their lives because a cake/repeater has turned over and firing rith into the crowd. Be careful and be prepared (water, secure the firework, etc) Don't light the big guys on grass unless you firmly secure it with bricks.

I really wish that I had more money to burn. Spent about $300 so far stocking up. Some day I'll be able to play with the big boys.

Last year I lit 2 mortar shells just resting on the ground. Hilarity ensued. Of course, anyone sane was hiding behind a berm.

 

[montanafan]

They stopped having public fireworks shows around here several years ago so we started putting on our own little show for the kids in the family who are all usually visiting at that time. Now we feel almost obligated to put on a good one each 4th because all the neighbors have gotten used to pulling out their lawnchairs to watch.

We don't have any particular brand we get each year. Just a lot of the artillery shells and the cakes or towers for color bursts that the kids like so much. There's a place just across the state line where a lot of vendors set up each year and we go look around and tell them what types of displays we want and they usually steer us right. We've gotten a few that didn't live up to as advertised, but most of them have been good.

It sounds like some of you are paying a lot more for fireworks than we do. The most expensive single item we ever bought was a 300 shot color burst cake for $50, but boy was it good. Most of the others only run around $15 to $30 each. The most we've ever spent is around $200 for a good show.