American GIs vaping out of a shotgun barrel in Vietnam, 1970

Have not seen this vape before! :hushed_face::laughing:

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that’s epic

i can’t imagine it tasted good, but if i were being hunted in the jungle i wouldn’t care about the flavor much

Haha I don’t know when but I’ve seen this one before. It’s a famous video I think.

Not vaping, unfortunately, combusting (fuck). Clear the weapon, keeping the bolt back, fill the chamber with that quite interesting Vietnamese weed and treat the weapon like a chillum. I’ve never tried with a 10/12 gauge, really honestly truly, but in a misspent youth I had access to a shop full of odd stainless bits and pieces. Couldn’t easily get that lovely Vietnamese bud but I believe Gilbert (another story from long ago and far away) filled in admirably.

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Is this the origination of the phrase ā€œBlowing a shotgun?ā€

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:thinking: I say yes. As a kid in the late 70s, it was called a ā€œshotgunā€ to hold the J backward to blow smoke forcefully into someone’s face. That’s only a few years after the war, really. :wink: There was a plastic Power Hitter device that was a plastic squeeze bottle, essentially. Worked the same way.

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We did the same back in the days. Someone puts a joint in their mouth backwards and then blows smoke from the mouthpiece.

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It was smoking, and the origins of the term ā€œshotgunning a jointā€. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a shotgun though, but a rifle. The hit tastes like gun oil.

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