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

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[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 ;

[virgil283]

"Rigid frame. Good power output. No knock required on arrows. Longer draw than a standard bow. Accurate. So very! light. Simple to build. Cheap - cost £2.50 for proper catapult rubber preferred by the Chinese apparently (big following of catapults). Pimp this up and she would be awesome - I kinda like her dirty and visceral though. Easily shoot 20 meters. Would work well for short range hunting of small game or fish. Ammo carried on the frame."

[Hugin]

Pretty cool. I suppose in an emergency situation you could slit the innertube into strips and braid them. You could also run the rubber through the holes and wrap them around a stick if you didn’t have eyelets, though the rubber would wear though after a while.

[Kartographer]

Preppers’ PING!!

[Lazamataz]

Neat!

[Fido969]

No knock required on arrows

Cringe.

[Lazamataz]

I am so screwed.

[Lazamataz]

No-Knock required on arrows!

Just a little squirt should do it!

[Average Al]

You’ll poke your eye out! lol

[Kartographer]

Yes you are. Maybe you should think about taking a ride on a sub with screen doors. ;-)

[varmintman]

Bambi would laugh his ass off.....

[dinodino]

It’s a nock, not a knock...or is this some kind of nock knock joke?

[TMSuchman]

I made a “David” style sling from the these guys. And now I’m gotta get some old golf balls for practice. I keep it in my bug out bag.

[Delta 21]

Put another set of eyelets closer to the handle to increase the leverage.

I got some bungee cord that would decrease the draw length and increase the power.

Improvised weapons are cool because they are innocuous looking but unexpectedly lethal.

[5by5]

Meh...why not make a nice self bow instead? Hardly any more work and you could use it for real hunting or self-defense.

[TMSuchman]

I already have an aluminum bow, but need to make my own arrows. My arms & pull is too long for what I can get at a store.

[freedumb2003]

Bicycles can be effective weapons:

[driftdiver]

a little dab will do ya

[driftdiver]

Maybe you have a bike but no wood?

[Calvin Locke]

Bicycles can be effective weapons:

Or shields. Some guy mountain biking had the misfortune to cross paths with a bear. Must have been an alloy frame, because he said he used it as a shield against the attacking bear.

[Redcitizen]

Apparently reinventing the wheel is possible after all.