Hilarious Nighthiker!

The sparklers I usually get last about 30 seconds or so. Good for a couple waves and a quick toss into the air maybe.

Yep, we used to stuff coffee cans full of sparklers and leave one in the center as the fuse. That was a small cratering charge.

Y'all realize today is the Feast Day of St. Barbara, right? Patron saint of explosioneers...

-Blast, looking forward to tonight punch

'Tis that the mushroom cloud I see in the far distance south of DFW area? Thought Spring was too far away.

I've thought of bottle rockets, as well as the "smoke grenades." Unfortunately, bottle rockets are either too small to be too useful, or too big to carry many. And the commercial smoke grenades I've used tend to be, well, easily blown away.

Now, if I could get a few military-grade smoke grenades, I'd be a happy camper!

Off-topic, but I've often wondered how fireworks would work in scaring off wildlife (cougars, bears, etc). Figure a few M80s thrown at something would do the trick, but kind of don't want to find out the hard way if it doesn't!

Back when I was a kid, I know the guys who were of hunting age (including dad) used to occasionally "drive" deer with firecrackers. Of course, this was back when deer were fairly rare, there was no such thing as doe permits etc. Today, you trip over the things

"...if I could get a few military-grade smoke grenades, I'd be a happy camper!..."

This is pretty close. Not real inexpensive tho...

Time to make friends with someone on post. Colors good for marking. White good for choking yourself to death if not careful with wind direction.
Make sure the color isn't CS

One of my little brother's many jobs (he really needs to get a real gig) is as a fireworks display tech. He loves the no liscence needed guys- he buys those like most of us here buy good socks or ammunition or water bottles. I asked him about this very topic, and he down checked anything you can get without ATF approval for a few reasons:

-Not waterproof.
-Not very robust.
-Most don't go very high.
-Bulk.
-If they break, your bag is now a flare waiting to go off.

To demo, he set off a 100 shot salvo box when I was about 300 yards away in a clearing that is about 30 feet higher than the driveway. I could hear them going off, but there was no visual component that could be seen through the trees. He then lit off a couple of little (I think 2") mortars, and they barely got high enough to be seen over the trees. They kinda failed in my opinion.

You're lying there with a broken leg, shooting off firecrackers to attract attention. SAR hears them and they ask each other, "Is that SOB SHOOTING at us??? Let's go home!"

Fireworks are generally known as entertainment. Would any searchers think that they would be coming from a lost or injured person, or just some idiot who was trying to set what is left of California on fire?

But how would they be for setting zombies afire? How dry is a zombie? How flammable would his clothes be?

Sue