Armless Crossbow

This is my armless crossbow. It uses a common rail design found on many Instructables on this site. The trigger may or may not be original; it's been so long since I made this that I don't remember. If it is yours, please comment and I'll give you credit.

Step 1 Upper Barrel

Here you will be building the barrel. It can be as long as you like; just remember to add one rubber band to the chain for every four segments of body. I have tested this number and it is the most accurate way to get a good amount of power from this gun. The barrel shown here uses a chain of three rubber bands. Build what you see in the pictures. Build only one.

Comments

[DB9]

it is not a crossbow as it does not have a bow

[mettaurlover]

It's called an armless crossbow for a reason. anyway, who are you to talk? you're one of the people who've only posted the same, unoriginal block trigger gun as everybody else. at least i'm original.

[~Meme~]

Why don't you call it the crossbow that's not a crossbow?

[mettaurlover]

You just necro'd an 'ible that was left to die almost three years ago. Read the date before posting, and maybe the rest of the comments in the thread, too.

[DB9]

i havent posted anything yet but i will hopefully this weekend post a true trigger extremly powerful sniper which has a range of over 120ft thats if everyone wants me to post a sniper will post pics tomorrow

[~Meme~]

3 years on. I guess not.

[mettaurlover]

Dude. You KNOW how old the comment is, I've told you the etiquette here, and I've told you to stop replying to this comment chain in the first place. Listen and go away.

[~Meme~]

Why don't you just delete this instructible if your so fussed.

[mettaurlover]

Because I want to keep this instructable up. That still doesn't mean that it's OK to keep replying to this chain. AKA I'm flagging everything you post here from now on as spam, as I've done with others who've repeatedly done this.

[KnexFreek]

lol yur right

[mettaurlover]

yep. i usually am. anyway, try building my gun! i've also, in the past, made a small, pocket sized variant that used 1 rb for the trigger and 1 rb for the firing. it worked great.

[Seleziona]

not a crossbow!!!! 3.5* anyway

[mettaurlover]

Did you read the comment thread below? That explains both the name and exactly how PO'd I'm willing to get if more than one person at a time does this without reading the stuffs. And trust me, that's nowhere NEAR as angry as I get if you do that in real life. Of course, in real life I can actually do something about it...

[Seleziona]

yes, i read everything below :P

[mettaurlover]

Be glad that I don't know where you live. If I did, you'd probably be taped to the floor, covered in barbeque sauce, and attacked by a hundred pounds worth of chihuahuas. If I could find that many chihuahuas and that much barbeque sauce, that is.

[Seleziona]

You already do know where i live! I'm one of your friends!!!!

[mettaurlover]

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[Seleziona]

My name is Daniel.....

[mettaurlover]

Daniel...? What's your last name? I gave you mine.

[Seleziona]

I'm not your friend, i just wanted you to believe it.
If you want something close to my last name, it's loveboat

[mettaurlover]

AAAHHHHH>>>>> I thought I might actually know you... Railgun time! *aims*

[Seleziona]

No! not the railgun!!!!

[mettaurlover]

*fires at twinkie*
mmm.... deep fried twinkies.....

[~Meme~]

I did that yesterday.

[Seleziona]

Wow. you really are messed up!

[mettaurlover]

What? It's unhealthy enough already. Deep frying them can't make them much more so. Only taste better. I will beat you to death with a stale twinkie. Laugh if you know what that means.

[Seleziona]

stale twinkie????

[mettaurlover]

Twinkies never go stale. That's the point.

[Seleziona]

no duh

[SpeedStrikerXLR]

hi daniel my name is José

[Seleziona]

Hi :P

[SpeedStrikerXLR]

hi!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mettaurlover]

You CLEARLY don't understand the three-month rule of politeness in posting replies.

[SpeedStrikerXLR]

lol

[mettaurlover]

That means that the comment you just posted, along with any after it, on this chain, will be flagged as spam.

[razzlekunai]

So it's a slingshot.

[mettaurlover]

yes. it's actually pretty easy to make and uses relatively few pieces for its type

[DB9]

so its not a crossbow its a slingshot

[DB9]

HA

[mettaurlover]

You lose. I call it an ARMLESS crossbow because of its origin as a standard crossbow. It's ARMLESS because I removed the arms and attached the rubberbands elsewhere.