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#1 ·
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Brown Tan Nail German food
My 12-year-old son and I found this bullet casing while metal detecting. It's got this strange tubing that goes into the side and all the way through. It's exactly 4 inches tall and the bullet opening is about 3/4 inch. What the heck kind of bullet has this tube sticking out the side?
 
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#11 ·
All you would need to make this into a bong is a stem, some water, and some pot. I've made them in the past.
 
#13 ·
Not weird! Just a part of the 60's, and 70's.
 
#16 ·
Yeah, bong was my first thought. A small bowl of some type to go in the hole, put water in the shell and inhale from the mouth.

Heck, I remember folks making pipes out of beer cans.

Put a dent in the side of a aluminum can with your thumb, poke a hole in the bottom of the dent, lay a little piece of window screen (metal, not nylon) in the dent so the pot don't fall through the hole, light it off and suck through the poptop hole.
 
#18 ·
I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's so I know what that is.

Servicemen serving in Southeast Asia started bringing home a strange looking water pipe made from small bamboo sections that they called "bongs". The 'bowl' of the pipe was a smaller section of bamboo about the size of the small tube on this shell. They were for smoking Thai stick, a very powerful form of high grade pot, the bowl is small because you only needed a little bit to get you stoned and these things were made for one "hit".

Looks like a G.I made one from an empty 20 mm shell because he didn't have any bamboo, improvise, adapt and overcome. ;)
 
#19 ·
Sometimes I smoke dat Tied-stick, man.

Tied-stick?

Yeah man, you know, dat stuff dat's tied to a stick.

Oh yeah, man, I've tried that.

That's from "Up in Smoke", just before Tommy brought out that "Bob Marley joint, man", that was "half Maui Wowee and half Labrador. My dog ate my stash, man. Had to follow him around for three days before I got it all back."
 
#20 ·
...That's from "Up in Smoke", just before Tommy brought out that "Bob Marley joint, man", that was "half Maui Wowee and half Labrador. My dog ate my stash, man. Had to follow him around for three days before I got it all back."
And I've still got the paper and the album Bambu!
 
#21 ·
Lol, I went to a party one night back in the day and somebody had rolled one up out of less than dry homegrown pot and the rolling paper from a Big Bambu album. They were passing it around on a porcelain plate because it had gotten too soggy from the steam in the smoke to stay stiff enough to hold like a joint.
 
#23 ·
Buddha Stick was, I've heard, even stronger, made by Buddhist monks and a lot bigger than Thai sticks.

We had a cargo of it wash up on shore near Coos Bay back in the 70's. It was packed in steel containers that looked a lot like the military ammo cans full of Russian and Chinese surplus ammo. They were complete with the "sardine can" type twist opener soldered to the top.

Not all of those containers were found by Law Enforcement. ;)
 
#46 ·
That's me! But I was stubborn, I tried it about 6 or 7 times. I was freakin:eek: while everyone else was having the time of their lives:rolleyes:. I don't even drink anymore (hardly), a six pack of stout (don't like fizzy yellow stuff) will last me 6 months to a year, and a fifth of single malt much longer than that. I'm such a fuddy-duddy :D
 
#28 ·
Wow, I'm gonna have to reconsider my hanging out with youz guys. I don't smoke, don't drink, don't do no drugs and don't hang out with anybody that does. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...

I had a similar experience as tuckerd1. A friend of mine was a longshoreman and he got some "smoke" off a crew member of some ship he was working on. We smoked one and I felt areally odd high, plus he had "The Mothers Of Invention" on his tape player and he started laughing at me. I wound up sitting under the work bench for about an hour before i could walk home. That may have been the last time I partook? That was about 40 years ago and I'm much more mature now (???).;)
 
#43 ·
The Mothers of Invention, I was rummaging through some stuff/junk found an old CD of them I hadn't heard in years and had to play it. Kinda takes me back to visit my mis-spent youth. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of invention, went to see them at a concert once at the Toledo sports arena. Flo and Eddie were to be the lead off group, but had to cancel because of a death in the band. They brought in a disco band that I think was from Detroit. All of their ancestors came from a different continent than mine did. They started playing and the ruckus began, people at first started booing and throwing bottles and cans at them, then chairs and pieces of flooring were getting thrown at them. They got out of there as fast as they could in their yellow leisure suits and yellow platform shoes.
 
#31 ·
I'm grateful I'm completely ignorant of all of it. Now...if would you like a doctoral thesis on beer I could write one and all from experience, no research necessary....uhhh...well, I guess the experience could be considered research...
 
#32 ·
I can not believe what I am reading:rolleyes:
I have been talking guns with a bunch of ex-pot heads, Drugies who experienced.
REFER MADNESS:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:.
Guys that ignored the laws and crossed the line of legal:eek::eek:
Those that fell into the trap of BUDS.....
You know I have never.....................
Felt so much at home and part of "The family":D:p
Mike
 
#38 ·
I tried pot several times, it did nothing for me. I didn't get high, I didn't get hungry, I didn't get mad, and I didn't get mellow! My drug of choice was always alcohol. I've tried speed with the same results as pot. Nothing. Laura didn't like pot, it made her want to clean someone else's house. Especially the oven! Go figure! With alcohol, I've experienced the whole gambit of up's, and down's!
 
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