The Best Damn Pen Shooter Period.

This is a WARNING. Do NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES point this at anybody or any living creature. It's a very strong little pen shooter, and can leave more than a mark. I am not going to held accountable for your actions, so if you are not mature enough to handle this carefully... turn away NOW.

Now for the good stuff :)

This is a fun and easy (and cheap) little toy that I invented the other day. It's very strong and shoots very far.

What you'll need:

1 Office Depot Ballpoint pen - very cheap -- 1 dozen for $0.89
(this might work with other pens, but I haven't tried)

1 Rubber band of medium length

Some String

Scissors

Step 1 Making the Barrel

Pull the writing end and the little plug on the back of the pen off.
This is a very easy step, if you can't figure it out, you LOSE. Please try again.

Comments

[nutsandbolts_64]

 Hmm, step 3 in the last sentence, I'll just give you people an optional thing there for permanence, and it is only recommended if you are using a fairly thick rubber band, just a bit thicker than the one in the images. When you're done tying the string there, just squirt a little bit of glue in there and let it soak in there. Let it dry, and it is really strong. Remember. It's only optional. 

[Atlas22]

My
God...

this is ment to be a fun class wepon thingy,
You guys are all thinking like your planing to break out of jail!!!

[polymorph101]

Its really good though

[an1153]

LOL!

[falloutman19]

says the guy with shanks as his picture

[jhiggins-1]

alright dude calm down :(

[Chibichuba]

I know right?

[MrGreenankle]

Says the man with custom-built knifes as his avatar...

[dawsonj]

yeah... jail...

[glugnar]

maybe we are

[glugnar]

lol jk

[lasertag1111]

This design works at least as well and has the advantage of not requiring string. http://www.instructables.com/id/Pen-Shooter-using-ONLY-a-pen-and-a-rubber-band/

[imBobertRobert]

im a hero. i shot this at a teacher "accidentaly" and i missed, and instead broke the mirror for the overhead (aka lightbox) and my teacher freaked out and quit!!!

[markmengele]

if you think this is cool come check out my 3ft long version. i have one picture of it  on profile and the 1/2in dowels it shoots really pack a punch.

[tgoldbeck]

Thats wut she said

[bwells2]

Look's deadly, you could probably hunt birds with it.

[jhiggins-1]

that is pretty ausum :D

[bwells2]

Can you hunt birds with it?

[Couso]

 I made one of these a few years ago at work on my break in the stock room, and instead of using the ink part of the pen, I used a small metal rod that broke off one of the metal baskets.  I launched it nearly about 30 feet through the stock room and the rod went straight through a box and out the other side.  I decided to throw it away after that hahaha

[prince jkc]

its dangerous thats why????

[waffleoffate]

man this thing could seriously puncture a trachea or two

[jhiggins-1]

i have a similar one but all mine is is a the body of a pen with a balloon or you could use an elastic band on the end and you simply put the pen ink thing in pull it back and fire how bout you try great fun and will be great humour at a party as it does not hurt one bit :D

[munaib rumjaun]

interesting !!

[legendx]

it hurts

[freelife571]

A short,thick rubberband i found has shot the hardest,so if this design works with a small one and is powerful,try a thick one.

[the all powerful cow]

this is a simple yet effective design... so i took it made it double barreled and made some other modificatiions

[CaseBoy]

or you can use those super small rubber bands from braces.

[pokerstud001]

You hardly invented this, these have been around for ever...

[lilpicollo37]

I made one of the pen shooters and it works but you need to make a video because it took me a while to figure it out and when I did it went about 20.

[KNEXFRANTIC]

if you atach the ruber band to the barel you can make fire paper and convert your amo into a firing pin

[striker187]

deadly but what else can u use as projectiles?

[jsepovarich]

i made 1 of these ages ago. i was using a sharpened piece of wire. i pulled it back too far, it came out the back end and through 2 of my fingers. that was the end of that fun.

[nutsandbolts_64]

 specially made paper clips as I will demonstrate on my next instructable

[Acer81996]

specially made? just go straighten out a normal paper clip and there you go.
bigger paperclip means better ammo.

[nutsandbolts_64]

more like special purpose paper clips. oh, and place a catch on the end otherwise it'll just slip off. the catch size depends on the width of the rubber band.

[dawsonj]

awesome!!! 5 stars.

[nutsandbolts_64]

unfortunately, I couldn't develop them at the moment because of a not so bad case of chicken pox, but I'm still isolated from office materials.

[ajrc]

wooden skewers :D

[bboyx3]

If you make the elastic band shorter the further it goes plus u can get ten packet multi colour pens for 0.35c in tesco they are easiers to spot as well when you fire plus these ink cartages go missing very easily

[SierraTwoOne]

You can use the cap as a safety