How to make a Crossbowgun

In this instructable i will share with you how to make a crossbowgun.

First things first, what is a crossbowgun?
A crossbowgun is a crossbow with a barrel, the main advantage to this is that you can shoot anything that you cab fit in its barrel:
Rocks, pieces of wood, nuts and bolts, fireworks, anything.

WARNING!
This crossbow can be a real weapon, you should never fire this at living things or property that isn't yours.
i won't take any responsibility for any damage, injury or even death caused by this crossbow.

now that we have that part covered, lets move on.

Step 1 The inner workings

The crossbow works by stretching the rubber bands, and then releasing all that energy stored in the rubber bands all at once, launching the projectile, just like any slingshot, bow or crossbow.
The unique part of this crossbow is the barrel, with the piston inside pushing the projectile forward.

A few designer's notes
-   Throughout the Instructable you will see that my crossbow has the reinforcements for an ammo slot, yours won't have that. it was a fatal weakness that broke my first crossbowgun, and i had to replace the entire barrel.

-   This is only a rough guide to making a crossbowgun, if you can't get some of the materials in the sizes that i use, just get it in the sizes you can get. the crossbow is designed for materials you can get in the Netherlands.

-   The crossbow is made with rubber bands because it was too hard for me to make a bow, if you think you can make it with a bow, I'd love to see how that worked out.

-   This instructable was made after i finished the crossbow, so i don't have any pictures of some building steps themselves, i will try to compensate for that using drawings.

Comments

[fatperson1239214]

i like the concept but would you be able to use paracord instead of rubberbans

[ZoDo]

Awesome!!!! Voted for you