Comments on: An M-80 contains 80 grains of flash powder https://www.isegoria.net/2023/07/an-m-80-contains-80-grains-of-flash-powder/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 04:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Scooby https://www.isegoria.net/2023/07/an-m-80-contains-80-grains-of-flash-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-3614106 Scooby Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:22:04 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50209#comment-3614106 I was born too late to get real M-80s, but the myth I was told in the ’70s was that they were equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite. 5g of flash powder has a bit less kick than the 250kJ that a quarter stick of dynamite carries.

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2023/07/an-m-80-contains-80-grains-of-flash-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-3613824 Jim Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:46:55 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50209#comment-3613824 Ah…to live in a free, hopeful, lily-white land of high-school riflery drills, mail-order uranium hobby kits, and corner-store schoolboy flashbangs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JR10AThY8M

]]> By: Faze https://www.isegoria.net/2023/07/an-m-80-contains-80-grains-of-flash-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-3613668 Faze Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:14:07 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=50209#comment-3613668 My nephew, an orthopedic surgery resident, is doing an emergency room rotation this Fourth of July. He says they expect to see a lot of what they call “spaghetti hand” in youngsters who held on to their M-80s too long. When I was a kid, someone at the other end of the playground had an M-80 go off in his hand. I ran away, but the sound of his screams echoing off the sides of the old school building still lingers.

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