Thursday, June 13, 2013

Mini Pistol - now 51 lbs draw weight!

Added some more rubber - now it has 8cm of TBG per side, pretty serious. This is over 50 lb draw!

Still a toy... but of the scary type!




8 comments:

  1. how much rubber or how strong would it need to be for it to be as deadly as a gun?

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    1. Well, the OSS made a slingshot pistol in the 50ies. It had 600 lb draw force, and was quite deadly. Still was much bigger than this one here.

      Deadly slingshots need a longer barrel. Short barrels = insanely thick rubber bands, not practical.

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    2. My I ask perhaps use five shorter black rubber bands on each side? The black rubber bands that you should on your tour at the Trumark factory.

      Your truly Alverik

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  2. Dear Jörg,
    if it is available online please give link to information and/or pictures of that OSS slingshot pistol, because my research only found your stuff :D
    An idea of a 600 lb slingshot pistol winds me up, however I'm more intrested in a rifle with that draw weight (20 mm speargun rubber seems to be interesting I would also love to see some more concepts of yours for that rubber some day)
    Thank you very much!
    dontkillbees

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    1. @dontkillbees:
      You might want to check out here:
      http://thearbalistguild.forumotion.com/t416-ww2-big-joe-5
      and here:
      http://googlebordello.crushhumanity.org/projectaks/ljwt/index.html

      As Jörg already indicated too short drawlength do no good here.
      One can simply verify this by looking at the thick rubber of big joe :)

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  3. By jazztuss.It Can't be any cooler! :D

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  4. By jazztuss.what's "lbs"mean?

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  5. lbs = draw weight in pound....

    Read here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_%28force%29

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