
Originally Posted by
Pussywillow
I went through hundreds of these as a kid. They came on a wound tape, like a tape measure for sewing (which is another 'toy' we played with as kids) in a small round paper packet. The tape was light green iirc and the black dots were the caps. You then 'loaded' this reel into your gun and it unwound as you fired the caps.
You could also make the caps go off if you scratched them with a stone or something metallic.
Oh, the H & S brigade would have nightmares if you could still buy these !