"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."
1 posted on
09/14/2013 2:46:49 PM PDT by
virgil283
To: virgil283
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.
2 posted on
09/14/2013 2:57:16 PM PDT by
Hugin
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3 posted on
09/14/2013 2:59:02 PM PDT by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: virgil283
4 posted on
09/14/2013 3:00:06 PM PDT by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: virgil283
No knock required on arrows
Cringe.
5 posted on
09/14/2013 3:00:26 PM PDT by
Fido969
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6 posted on
09/14/2013 3:00:48 PM PDT by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: virgil283
You’ll poke your eye out! lol
To: virgil283
Bambi would laugh his ass off.....
To: virgil283
It’s a nock, not a knock...or is this some kind of nock knock joke?
11 posted on
09/14/2013 3:06:41 PM PDT by
dinodino
To: virgil283
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.
12 posted on
09/14/2013 3:07:11 PM PDT by
TMSuchman
(John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
To: virgil283
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.
13 posted on
09/14/2013 3:17:16 PM PDT by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: virgil283
Bicycles can be effective weapons:
16 posted on
09/14/2013 3:33:56 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. (Yogi Berra))
To: virgil283
Apparently reinventing the wheel is possible after all.
To: virgil283
Buy an inexpensive recurve bow.
More importantly buy quality arrows/shafts.
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.")
To: virgil283; Kartographer
Pretty neat.
Here's a link to a guy who takes slingbows and slingshots to the next level.
Slingbow25 posted on
09/14/2013 6:56:12 PM PDT by
Jed Eckert
(Wolverines!!)
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
To: virgil283
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.)
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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