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    Arrow Strike Anywhere Matches

    What do you think of them?
    Are they still strike anywhere if you water proof them?
    Where can you get them cheap?


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    You can get them cheap pretty much anyplace camping and outdoor supplies are sold. I don't think they'll still strike anywhere if you waterproof them, how you going to water proof them?

    I like them, always have a box of them around me somewhere.
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    Fill a shotgun shell up with hot candle wax- then dip a Blue Tip into the wax. Lay on a cookie sheet to dry.
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    There's a couple of threads on strike anywhere matches. Here's one with instructions on how to water proof them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason_Montana View Post
    Fill a shotgun shell up with hot candle wax- then dip a Blue Tip into the wax. Lay on a cookie sheet to dry.
    Yeah I figured something like that..screws their strike anywheredness (my word for the day!) doesn't it?
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    Just peel off the wax and strike away.
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    Good to be back. But doesn't that defeat the purpose? Or do you mean take it off just to strike it?

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    you can stuff the heads of strike anywere matches into a tennis ball to make a percussion bomb (pack the heads in there tight but not to tight)

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    As you strike it. (just don't dunk it in your coffee before you do).
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    Peel it when you want to strike it.
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    Use extras: You need to make use of all materials for survival. #1. "borrow" little kid's bicycle spoke. #2. crank out leaving approx. 1/2" tube space #3. place match tips almost to end #4. insert BB(snug fit) #5. point in direction of target #6. heat tube under match heads #7. Boom! respectable velocity for a BB. USE AT YOUR TARGETS OWN RISK
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    lol warman87 everyones read the anarchist cookbook and know that 2/3's of it is bull****. iv yet to hear of anyone making a grenade outa SA matches and a tennis ball (and iv tried)
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    well i also did it you stuff the ball full then tape it shut and throw it it makes a big bang
    i guess if you put a fuse in it you might be able to blow it up but i dont know

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    besides filling it with black powder and using a fuse it (probibially) wouldn't explode. a tennis ball just doesnt have the strength to hold the high pressures low explosives generate long enough after ignition for it to actually 'go off'
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    You can have all that junk but a fuse don't cut it. You need a cap on the end of the fuse, or run wire and use a hand crank gen to set it off. I always notched the fuse so I could get a good estimate of when it would go bang. Don't know anything about your cookbook, I helped shoot coal back in '62 in KY
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    what is the anarcist cookbook anyway?some kind of hillbilly ninja book
    i did it cuz i was real board and had aliot o matches a knife a tennis ball and threw it to see what would happen

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    Hmmmm. Sounds like what's happening to my hair.
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    Hmmmm. Sounds like what's happening to my hair.
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    I went to walmart, dalor store, no one had strike anywhere matches. Not even my local Sports Authority had it.

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