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How To Make Your Own Hunting Bow Out Of A Bicycle Wheel
instructables. ^

Posted on 09/14/2013 2:46:49 PM PDT by virgil283

"Simple tools - saw to cut the bike rim - scissors - Snips or some way to remove the spokes from the wheel - file to tidy cuts - pliers to bend.

Materials for the basic build - Bike wheel - eyelets of some description - inner tube from wheel - catapult rubber (or you can use cut down inner tube but it is not as powerful) - retainers for the threaded end of the eyelets (plasterboard expanding grommets in this case) - a spoke for the sight "

Bike Wheel Bow ;

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TOPICS: Hobbies; Military/Veterans; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bow; huntingbow
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To: virgil283

Buy an inexpensive recurve bow.

More importantly buy quality arrows/shafts.


21 posted on 09/14/2013 5:13:32 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Lazamataz
bicycle
22 posted on 09/14/2013 5:15:59 PM PDT by real saxophonist (All you poor, all you needy, all you're doin' is givin' to the greedy... Temptations, 'Power')
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To: real saxophonist

The Zappa clip was amazing!


23 posted on 09/14/2013 5:35:53 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: virgil283

It’s more like a rubber slingshot than a bow.


24 posted on 09/14/2013 6:12:10 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
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To: virgil283; Kartographer
Pretty neat.

Here's a link to a guy who takes slingbows and slingshots to the next level.

Slingbow
25 posted on 09/14/2013 6:56:12 PM PDT by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: virgil283

Bit of redesign and it would be good for taking under water for spearfishing.


26 posted on 09/14/2013 6:59:07 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Fido969

Right you are. Everybody knows it’s the “g” that’s silent...”gnock.”


27 posted on 09/14/2013 7:03:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jed Eckert
"How to make a Zombie slaying arrow shooting slingshot ...Hey---Thanks...."V"
28 posted on 09/14/2013 7:47:04 PM PDT by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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To: virgil283

Interesting.


29 posted on 09/14/2013 8:30:52 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: freedumb2003

What’s the story behind this gif? The bicyclist just seems insane.


30 posted on 09/14/2013 10:56:39 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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Ping for Danny


32 posted on 09/16/2013 9:29:34 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Every time a liberal gets pissed off an angel gets their wings.)
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To: virgil283
I already have two bows........

And I have a bike.........

Don't need this bike bow....though.

33 posted on 09/16/2013 9:38:44 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: Delta 21
A screw driver.

A credit card.

Car keys.

A pencil/pen.

The list is long.......

34 posted on 09/16/2013 9:42:25 AM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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