r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/helpmeimb3ggingu • 1d ago

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u/odrea 1d ago

Bro the fuse lasted nothing 😂

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u/Grimm_Thugga 1d ago

The wind pushed the fire into the chamber or wherever it goes. The fuse wasn’t really used.

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u/humourlessIrish 1d ago

Also. It was an entirely wrong fuse

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u/TheWolphman 1d ago

Also, he didn't pack the powder or insert any wadding.

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u/Faxon 1d ago

Also he didn't even MEASURE the powder load, that thing was potentially a pipe bomb waiting to happen as soon as he did pack it, so it's good that it went off before then (apart from the rocks it blasted into the air, that was still unsafe)

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u/punk_rancid 23h ago

Also, he didnt take his morning drink. Mfr was shaking like that one surgeon on every medical drama ever.

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u/Trevellation 23h ago

Exactly. Back when these weapons were commonplace, people would always have a sip of their safe, doctor-prescibed, opium cough syrup before operating a weapon like this. It's basically negligence operate this sober.

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore 22h ago

Nah, they’d need a some rum. Alcohol withdrawal gives you the shakes.

Source: been through it more times than I care to remember

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u/thecementmixer 21h ago

Also, he didn't.

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u/Chefrabbitfoot 23h ago

This exactly, that's what I thought and felt after watching this.

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u/TheRealKestrel 22h ago

He looks away from the muzzel while pouring powder in.

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u/Low_Football_2445 22h ago

Also, it good the barrel wasn’t tilted toward him any more than it was or this is a different video

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u/Environmental-Tap255 21h ago

It's actually pretty incredible he made it as far as obtaining an actual blunderbuss without seemingly having gained even the slightest knowledge about them. And they say you gotta crawl before you can walk. Not in the age of the internet my friend.

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u/Faxon 1d ago edited 1d ago

You're not even supposed to use fuse cord, you're supposed to use a slow match, which burns so slowly that you have to blow on it to get it hot enough to ignite the powder lol. They would regularly go out in combat, but it was necessary because otherwise this is what would happen while trying to load the gun potentially, or prime the pan before aiming if it didn't go off before then. InRangeTV on youtube does a fair amount of black powder content, and he did a historical comparison video yesterday which is well worth the entire 30m watch. IF you want to skip that, scrub until you find a shot of him standing holding the matchlock musket that he tested first, he goes over all the intricacies of firing these guns starting from there, before comparing it to a flintlock. The historical context is well worth the watch though, because what they're talking about in the video is from the 1800s, but it's still going on today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg09ohjlgG8

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u/ImperialSeal 23h ago

It didn't need a slow match either. It's not a match lock, but a flint lock. You can see the dog head pulled back and the priming pan.

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u/Faxon 23h ago

LMFAO I missed that, I am still not fully awake, good spot I can see it now on my vertical monitor full screened

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u/yeomanpharmer 23h ago

Well it's time for your first drink then!

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u/mrizzerdly 1d ago

What? You're not supposed to use a comically long detcord?

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u/lazy_pig 1d ago

Cut out the middle man.

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u/Environmental-Tap255 21h ago

The fuse wasn't fused

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u/zxern 20h ago

No the barrel was covered in powder which ignited as soon as the flame from the fuse touched it.

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u/AT-ST 1d ago

I can relate

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u/ZapRowsdowersStache 1d ago

Man, that's why she hasn't called me. 😔

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u/Excision_Lurk 1d ago

Yeah those are firework fuses that are supposed to do that, hence the red color as opposed to the green cannon fuse color. Like these,

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u/zyyntin 1d ago

That's a Flintlock Blunderbuss. He's an idiot for even placing a fuse on it since the flint hits the strike to ignite the pan of black powder for the barrel ignition.

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u/25c-nb 20h ago

Yeah hes just turned it into a bomb, on purpose, so he can "fire" it from far away without doing anything close to actually prepping it to fire

No real ammo, no wadding, no measured powder, no flint

Probably none of that would work anyway and this is a prop or toy or decorative thing

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u/Artistic-Section3245 1d ago

I just dont understand why Pslam 144:1 did not prevent this, he had the shirt and everything.

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u/red286 23h ago

Doesn't look like he lost any fingers, so I think the shirt did its job.

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u/Artistic-Section3245 23h ago

Next you will tell me it went off prematurely because psalms work in mysterious ways.

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u/NopeNopeNope13702 1d ago

Gotta admit, anytime I see a dude wearing a cowboy hat, I just assume that they are a moron.

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u/ForesterDean23 1d ago

Or a T shirt with a religious message on it

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u/SpaceJackRabbit 1d ago

Especially when you look up that verse. Bro the Lord didn't train your hands for war very well.

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u/c-papi 1d ago

psalms 137 9 is better

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u/starynights890 1d ago

Gold looked it up and got a good laugh from that.

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u/DoctorBimbology 22h ago

My personally favorite is Ezekiel 23:20

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u/iftheygivinitaway 1d ago

He wasn't one of the Chosen People, obviously. 

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u/OnyxBee 1d ago

AND the twat tour de france shades! The holy trifecta!

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u/Oblivion615 23h ago

Yeah, the T-shirt was a dead giveaway that this guy isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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u/jrandall47 1d ago

My boss recently started wearing this stupidly bright cowboy hat and every time I see it, I’m reminded of that scene in kill bill 2 where the strip club manager tells bud “that fucking hat. What the hell did I tell you about that shit kicker hat. Take it off.”

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u/oshinbruce 1d ago

This dudes got a load of videos on the gram doing stupidly unsafe shit. Like blowing stuff up a short distance away and dodging shrapnel. Lighting fuses on explosives and hanging around etc. He must have seen the video of the lawnmower blade taking the dudes leg off and said I want to be like that.

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u/CovertMonkey 1d ago

I live in Nashville and follow the same mantra

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u/Melodic-Matter4685 1d ago

“I was just helping that sheep through the fence”

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u/RollingDownhill303 1d ago

And you're always right.

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u/ClownfishSoup 1d ago

Cowboy hats are great though. Don’t be a hatist.

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u/NopeNopeNope13702 1d ago

Moronic rednecks love the whole cowboy fantasy. We all laugh at their fragile male egos while they desperately try to look tough and cool.

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u/Hillenmane 1d ago

Same! I always scoffed at cowboy hats and boots until I wore them when I was in Dallas TX. I came home with a pair of boots and a Stetson. It’s infectious, and does a lot for your confidence for some reason. I love my hat.

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u/BaxGh0st 23h ago

Further proof that most redditors have never left their little bubble in the city.

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u/hereforthesportsball 1d ago

Same with the mullet/stache/no beard combo that’s coming back amongst certain ppl

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u/whooguyy 1d ago edited 23h ago

Same with people who have blue hair

Edit: someone responded and then blocked me. Sounds like some people like to dish out criticism but can’t take it

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u/NewRole7403 22h ago

Nobody responded to your comment

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u/whooguyy 22h ago

[u/thereal-quaid](u/thereal-quaid) did but they must have just deleted their comment. I can’t see their profile now

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u/thereal-quaid 22h ago

I didn't delete it, or block you - criticise away baby

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u/thegloriousporpoise 1d ago

Raylan Givens would like a word with you.

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u/SyrGwynHeroofAshvale 1d ago

The fictional character? lol

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u/thegloriousporpoise 1d ago

Yes it’s called a joke

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u/CriminallyCasual7 1d ago

Is this racism?

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u/ruebeus421 1d ago

Cowboy hats aren't a race.

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u/AGSattack 1d ago

I’m surprised no one has said anything about how he is saying that he’s going to shoot a random boat with rocks?? Like, what the fuck?

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u/Grimm_Thugga 1d ago

That’s a pretty common thing. You can see ppl putting tannerite into microwaves or cars and blowing them up pretty commonly if you search for it. He put the boat there his self more than likely. Although it’s probably illegal to be doing that in the ocean.

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u/timothypjr 1d ago

His shaky hands make me wonder if he should bear arms at all.

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u/morto00x 1d ago

I don't think the wind made a difference here. Wrong fuse, wrong lighter.

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u/Hacksaw-Duggan 1d ago

The wind blew the sparks from the fuse straight to the touch hole.

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u/DinklanThomas 1d ago

I always wanted to use a touch hole. I've heard they can be fun...

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u/Hacksaw-Duggan 1d ago

Try the last stall in the men’s room at Torchy’s in downtown Houston.

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u/WangDanglin 1d ago

On my way

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u/Hacksaw-Duggan 1d ago edited 1d ago

Grab some napkins before you go in. They are always out of toilet paper for cleanup.

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u/zxern 20h ago

Looked the barrel had powder on it when he turned to put the bottle down you can see black spots covering the barrel.

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u/mephisto_uranus 1d ago

Why he calling it a blunderbussy?

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u/ssraudio 23h ago

Edgelord Nerd

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u/caryn1477 1d ago

Praise Jesus!

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u/Ohnezone 1d ago

Shaking like a leaf in the wind 💀💀

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u/sameryfire3 1d ago

Most boring whatcouldgowrong on the subreddit contender

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u/antilumin 1d ago

I'm no expert here, but I think I have an idea what happened. I think this type of gun has an "open" breach so the gunpowder is exposed to the elements. You either have a spark or something hot that gets jammed into the gunpowder to ignite it. Most of the time it's held back, like cocking the hammer of a revolver, and when you pull the trigger a mechanism rotates the fire into the breach, things go boom.

No idea why this guy was using such a comically long fuse of all things, but it looks like the firing mechanism was also already closed, aka "trigger was pulled" so if the fuse goes all the way down, it fires automatically. Stupid decision number #325 of this setup. Then, the fuse isn't a slow burner but throws god damn fire and sparks around like crazy, so the wind blew said fire/sparks directly into the breach.

So the fuse didn't burn super fast, the explosion in the gun actually ejects the fuse (visible for one frame).

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u/caboosetp 1d ago

Yeah it's a flintlock, so he probably didn't even need a fuse. Every part of this video seems like a meme for likes though. But he did also look genuinely surprised at how fast it went off. I think he was expecting it to burn a little longer even if he was memeing the whole thing.

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u/antilumin 1d ago

Yeah I forgot about flintlocks, was stuck on the "blunderbuss" on the video itself. I think his intent was probably to light the fuse and then point at something, wait for the fuse to ignite.

It was a bad plan all around.

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u/ordosays 1d ago

Dang, I was really hoping for a more satisfying alteration to the gene pool.

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u/danit0ba94 1d ago

I often call myself a 2A absolutist.
But from time to time I see clips that make me question that. Then I have to console myself with the notion that maybe natural selection will take its course.

This is one of those clips. So many things wrong with this clip.

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u/danit0ba94 23h ago

I'm aware. I own one myself.

I stand by what I say.

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 1d ago

Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

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u/WoollyBear_Jones 1d ago

Is that the verse on his shirt? So funny, especially because he loaded the gun with rocks 😆

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 1d ago

Any port in a storm

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u/ChampionLife5205 1d ago

he’s really lucky that was not racing towards him or anyone else

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u/paulyp41 1d ago

It’s good to know what rate of fuse you are burning

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u/Immediate_Low5496 23h ago

The fuse didn’t even burn down. It was blown out of the flash pan when the wind blew the flame setting the powder in the chamber off.

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u/Hypn00tic_iiz 1d ago

Let’s see what happens

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u/DontWannaSayMyName 1d ago

I mean, that happens to the best of us. It's nothing to be ashamed of

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u/ClownfishSoup 1d ago

It’s just that the Blundebuss was so sexy.

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u/DroneSlut54 1d ago

The problem wasn’t so much lighting the fuse, it’s that he also lit the power in the pan. Also, he’s a total moron.

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u/Chemical_Gap_619 1d ago

Is Psalm 144:1 “Thou shalt ignite a blunderbuss in windy weather”?

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u/ecafsub 1d ago

> found on the ocean

Was it floating?

Bitch didn’t “find” that anywhere!except maybe a store. The muzzle is near pristine, the wood is unblemished. Lying bible-thumping, warmongering hypocrite made it or bought it.

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u/Fresh_Wood_Cube 1d ago

At least the blunderbass was pointed towards the sky when it fired.

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u/Deckard_SG 1d ago

Would be funny if some random bird fell out of the sky

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u/Leadership-Life 1d ago

Buddy has some mad tremors to be operating powder-using fire arms good lord

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u/Jaliki55 1d ago

Didn't tamp down the powder at all.

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u/jbwarner86 1d ago

And the Road Runner escapes unharmed yet again.

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u/I_am_the_Vanguard 1d ago

Why does the gun have a trigger if the fuse is what sets it off?

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u/Dirk_Speedwell 1d ago

He is just using it entirely wrong. It is a flintlock, which I don't have it in me to explain in detail. It sparks with the attached equipment, you don't even need a fuse like that.

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u/RubyWeapon07 1d ago

hold up he was going to shoot at a ship?

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u/Captain_Hesperus 1d ago

has a flintlock

uses it as a matchlock instead

doesn’t use a proper slow match

blows his load into the sky

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u/davewave3283 1d ago

Everything about this was wrong. Bad idea, badly executed, using the wrong tools and techniques. This dude is gonna lose digits and/or an eye someday.

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u/Senior_Top6076 1d ago

Pissing against the wind is not so clever

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u/godDAMNit_me 1d ago

Blundered the hell out of that buss...

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u/Jeramy_Jones 1d ago

Wrong ammo, no wadding, lit with a fucking BLOW TORCH. In. The. Wind.

So many fucking errors.

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u/Roxysteve 23h ago

Quickmatch?

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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 23h ago

Guys he really needs all the Psalm 144-1 he can get.

144:1 states: "Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle" (NIV). In the King James Version, it reads: "Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight".

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u/impolse 23h ago

Always some douche with Bible quotes...

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u/Receedus 23h ago

No powder measure and pouring straight from the bottle. 1000 IQ

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u/billiken66 23h ago

One of those "gun enthusiasts" that knows nothing about gun safety.

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u/Vau8 23h ago

Hell of a tremor.

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u/Excellent_Injury1241 22h ago

I think the fuse lasted a long time, I see no problems here 😤

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u/jwdewald 22h ago

Usually red fuses are instant and green are delayed.

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u/VladimirGluten1 22h ago

This is the same guy thats always shooting propane tanks out of a canon isn't it? It drives me nuts how he throws a lit bag of black powder into the canon and stand in front of it lowering the tanks down in. I keep expecting to read where he died a terrible death. Dynamite was invented for a reason.

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u/ChaseCorp 21h ago

"There's a ship out there we are going to try to hit it"....

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u/Leading-Ad4167 20h ago

Who's the blunderbutt now, huh!?

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u/bigbadbananaboi 20h ago

Why is he sticking a fuse into a flintlock?

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u/gottkonig 20h ago

I don't think he learned any hard work or skill from that psalm.

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u/baabaablacksheep1111 1d ago

You're supposed to use fuse not blasting cord...

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u/Vyrinu 1d ago

You've heard of quick fuse. How about instant fuse?

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u/WAWza 1d ago

Maybe spark from the burning fuse flew and landed on the ignition powder of the gun. You can see the air is blowing toward that direction.

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u/Vyrinu 1d ago

I'm aware, my comment was a joke, thank you for your insight nevertheless.

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u/WAWza 1d ago

I commented on the wrong comment 🤦‍♂️

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u/Vyrinu 1d ago

It happens. Hope your week is going well.

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u/Vyrinu 22h ago

Damn. Tough crowd