Rubber Band Shooter

You need nothing but your hand and a band to go gun slinging around the house or office.

Step 1:

choose your rubber band and prepare your hand.

Comments

[monsterlego]

oh man Ive been doing this for years, highly recommended!

[ThatKnottyguy]

+1

[lhayes11]

Thanx, I learnt how to do this ages ago but forgot almost instantly. BTW my freind Shaun made a pen-ink shooting crossbow gun thing out of a couple of texta lids, one hollow texat and a rubber band.

[cool knex13]

I am sorry but we all know this


I am not a mean person so I will give you 2.5*

[jlumpkin1]

I already know how to do this for 6years

[cstringer1]

5646+

[blorjar443]

A rubber band war was started in my school a while ago, and the paper wasps dont really sting me and i sell rubber bands and wasp ammo but took my little business "underground" so the princible wouldn't catch me.

[shadow wave rider]

cool, at my school, you would get an after school 1 hour detention for shooting a paperwasp at someone, if the teachers catch you that is

[mebuildgunz]

col lol :-<)

[Ziggy Stardust]

oh no fair you stole my idea:{

[Foehammer358]

EVERYONE does it. this is just for those dudes who dont know what to do and have never gone out of the house.

[lowe]

if your rubber band is too small, then you wont be able to hold up your thumb

[num chuck]

sweet

[sharlston]

nice ible its really cool and well written :)

[loltae]

good times...goood times...

[Jupitane]

Hey man! Great instructable! Its all clear to me now...... did i say that out loud?

[kevlarlollipop]

Yeah, we used to do runbberband wars in school. Loads of people worked out how to go multi-shot but I would stick to one band but rather then lead with my index finger I'd use the thumb of my OTHER hand (positioned as if holding an invisible vertical grip, sort of) and then extend forward. The result is a far more stretched rubber band which achieves MUCH more range and power; regualr rubber band war sniper I was. :P

[Imptheshrimp]

oh man, same thing happened at my school but with paper wasps. My friends and i waged about 2 campaigns against different groups. and frig those things sting like hell.

[lowe]

I got hit in the eye before. It hurts more than you could even imagine.

[Hudmaster]

the best thing you can do with a spare rubber band: this

[lowe]

or put the rubber band on a knex gun

[YummyPancakes]

Hmmm... Is this one of the oldest Instructables on the site?

[u dont know me]

This seems to have brought back many memories...

[bop96]

my dad has been doing that back in the 50's

[andrew101]

ive known this trick for years its not that great

[masterchief442]

Yeah, I have too. It;s not that great.

[Maxaxle88]

Whoa, cool! Be careful, though.

[samphex]

finally a better technique than using index and thumb. Thanks.

[randName]

I'm very good at aiming with this. My error zone is 10cm

[darkwolf749]

If u like dis, u should do the pencl rubber band shooter thing!

[the rubber band]

Ah... but have you guy hear of the three-shooter hand rubber band gun... http://www.therubberband.info/hand_shooting.php

[ll.13]

old hat verry old granddad

[Joe93]

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xamox]

Yeah I've known this technique since I was a kid. You want to really get dangerous put the rubberband between your pinky and thumb, stretch it as far and possible, take a paper clip and unfold it until there is one hook left. Hook on that rubber band and launch, they go quite far.

[Eggy]

FWIW A freind of mine, Leonard, grew up in Indonesia in the 1970s and learnt this rubber band technique from the local kids. He showed it to me in LA in 1997.

[cokebottle tuque]

i always preferred loading 3 rubber bands starting from the middle finger and working down wen loading then firing from the pinky up. you get the best range with your pinky shot so you want to make sure its the last one to be loaded, this way you can start your attack from a distance and work your up to a nice close range head shot.

[sharath]

works great!

[saul]

You can actually load multiple bands on a single finger and shoot "sawn-off" style.