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How To Make Your Own Hunting Bow Out Of A Bicycle Wheel
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Posted on 09/14/2013 2:46:49 PM PDT by virgil283
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"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."
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posted on
09/14/2013 2:46:49 PM PDT
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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.
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posted on
09/14/2013 2:57:16 PM PDT
by
Hugin
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posted on
09/14/2013 2:59:02 PM PDT
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Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: virgil283
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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.
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:00:26 PM PDT
by
Fido969
To: Kartographer; Marcella; Kaslin
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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: Fido969
No-Knock required on arrows!
Just a little squirt should do it!
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:03:09 PM PDT
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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: Lazamataz
Yes you are. Maybe you should think about taking a ride on a sub with screen doors. ;-)
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:04:22 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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?
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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.
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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.
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:17:16 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
To: TMSuchman
Meh...why not make a nice self bow instead? Hardly any more work and you could use it for real hunting or self-defense.
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:18:28 PM PDT
by
5by5
To: 5by5
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.
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:25:03 PM PDT
by
TMSuchman
(John 15;13 & Exodus 21:22-25 Pacem Bello Pastoribus Canes [shepard of peace,dogs of war])
To: virgil283
Bicycles can be effective weapons:
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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: Lazamataz
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:36:18 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: 5by5
Maybe you have a bike but no wood?
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posted on
09/14/2013 3:37:40 PM PDT
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driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: freedumb2003
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.
To: virgil283
Apparently reinventing the wheel is possible after all.
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