Cheap but suprisingly powerful bow

A bow I made as a joke, but wound up being quite powerful, a range of 50-60 feet and being able to go through cardboard.

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Step 1: Supplies

First things first, you need 2 hangers, 2 rubber bands (or 1 elastic band from a binder) and some duct tape. Then you tape the two hangers together to form a bow shape. Match up the little rivets in the hanger together to find where to tape.

nutsandbolts_64 says: Dec 3, 2009. 3:20 AM

50 feet, not bad+quarter inch of penetration at 30. I can imagine 40 feet being from the gate of my house to the house across the street. Is there any way to increase the range to something like 80 feet or so while still having quarter inch penetration.

That'll probably be a ballista by then. Hence another idea: skewer ballista...
I ' wanna make it already, but I still have to draw some plans.

hackmattr says: Jan 31, 2009. 11:09 AM

Well on a real bow, you have the arrow rest on the left if your right handed and vise versa. Just thought to let you know.

CheepNEasyBuilder in reply to hackmattrJul 31, 2009. 7:02 AM

no if youre right handed u have the rest on the right and vice versa

red-king in reply to CheepNEasyBuilderOct 12, 2009. 1:57 PM

no. the guy above you was correct. you draw the bow with your dominant hand, and the arrow shelf/rest is on the side of your non-dominant hand.

T3hpw9ag3 (author) in reply to hackmattrFeb 2, 2009. 7:03 PM

Hah, thanks. I personally don't own a bow though, i just put down what i thought looked right

ocheeseant says: May 30, 2009. 9:22 AM

How big is the slot for the arrows? Is it just big enough for the arrow to fit?

ibayibay1 says: Jan 13, 2009. 5:17 PM

you did fine how far dose it shoot

T3hpw9ag3 (author) in reply to ibayibay1Jan 14, 2009. 6:27 PM

i actually hit a box around 30 feet away, and it penetrated maybe a quarter of the way into it with a wooden kebab skewer, so im guessing it could make it around 50 feet or so effectively

nuclearscience says: Aug 12, 2008. 10:29 AM

the hangers that you used were they a hard plastic because mine is very flimsy

admin says: Mar 17, 2008. 9:43 AM

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

T3hpw9ag3 (author) in reply to adminMar 24, 2008. 2:18 PM

Sorry, but like I said, this is the best I can do, I only had these pictures when I got rid of it.