Deer Lease, The saga begins

As any good ole red blooded American, our family has a deer lease. Every year in October the family men migrate to this lease for one fun filled week of Guns, Booze, paint cannons, 4-wheelers, 4X4's and myth busting. We call it hell week for any piece of equipment or toy we bring out there. If you want to stress test anything, that is the week to do it. We do have fun. It gets even funner the more beer we consume.

This one particular year, we will call it the year of the propane bomb, was especially interesting. My brother decided to make a sparkler bomb. You know how you wrap up a bunch of sparklers with tape and light it? Well he did this without us knowing about it and we he set it off, we crapped our pants. It was awesome. Click!! we had an idea. What if we made a sparkler bomb and duct taped it to a propane cylinder? Well, only one way to find out. Brother makes the bomb and tapes it up pretty good to this propane cylinder. He takes it down the hill and lights it off. It was a beautiful explosion. The propane never ignited so it was a ghostly white cloud hovering over the creek.

Then somebody, i can't remember who, said we need to do that near a fire to ignite the propane. So we gather up our chairs and sit around the campfire spit balling the best way to ignite the propane. After about a 30 pack we had a brainstorm.

Here was the plan. We would build a fire down by the creek. We would hang a propane cylinder off a branch about 1 inch above the coals of the fire. This way the flames could melt the plastic bottom and we know we would have enough fire to light the propane. Sounds great.

I am not sure how but i believe i was designated as the propane cylinder hangar. I was told to go hang the cylinder, jump on my 4-wheeler and high tail it up the hill so we could shoot the propane cylinder with a high powered rifle to see what happens.


I have to tell you that the fireball produced by that cylinder was awesome. It was a beautiful sight. Needless to say we spent a lot of money for propane cylinders that year.