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sweet easy knex sniper

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small smi powerful knex sniper rifle that is very easy to build uses a very good block trigger and has an awesome stock

please dont make any bad comments this is a first time instructable constructive criticism accepted

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Step 1The butt

this is the butt of the stock fairly simple

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Feb 28, 2012. 8:05 AMoblina says:

Do you have to have the snowflake piece

Dec 21, 2010. 2:51 PMAethereal says:

what's that black piece in the second part? (pictures 3 & 4)
thanks
SID

Dec 28, 2009. 11:55 AMKnave125 says:

do you have to have those triangles?

Aug 20, 2010. 9:24 AMFred the evil puppet says:

no you dont.

Apr 15, 2009. 2:19 PMAsday says:

Sorry, but I wouldn't call this a sniper. I'd call it a damned fine butt, with a workable gun as an afterthought. I really do like the butt, but after building the rest of it, it was extremely anticlimactic. The pictures were also fairly poor. I had to guess at how may halfcircles were in the barrel, and I'm already running low on them, so it would have been nice to know I could have used two-ways instead. I recommend using a tripod, or alternately, a CAD program. There's an MLCAD (Mike's Lego CAD) program that does K'nex somewhere. It's not perfect, but it'd work for this.

Aug 15, 2009. 10:07 PMmettaurlover says:

agreed. does this even have a trigger?

Aug 17, 2009. 2:07 PMAsday says:

Can't remember, that comment was made a season back.

Aug 17, 2009. 3:45 PMmettaurlover says:

doesn't seem to... this doesn;t even deserve to be put on the LIST.

Aug 18, 2009. 5:50 AMAsday says:

"We have a "be nice" comment policy. Please be positive and constructive with your comments or risk being banned from our site."

Aug 18, 2009. 7:03 PMmettaurlover says:

i know; i was just stating my point ov view. it IS decent; it just doesn't deserve to be put on the list cause it doesn't have a trigger. maybe it was intended as an "add oyur own trigger" kind of gun.

Jul 29, 2010. 2:18 AMFred the evil puppet says:

this has a block trigger and the list is a group that supports block triggers. hello?!

Jul 29, 2010. 4:58 AMmettaurlover says:

1) DEAD comment chain 2)The List is/was a list of EVERY crappy block trigger gun on this site. I say it that way because it's true. lock triggers are only acceptable to people who are actually GOOD with k'nex when there is no better way to do the job, and those are usually converted to block-true.

May 11, 2008. 9:15 AM

awsome says:

I think you made the barrel to long. It has no support and just flops around with the tension of the elastics. I went to fire and the bullet couldn't make it all the way through without me having to bend the barrel around. I like the stock though. =)

Jul 29, 2010. 2:21 AMFred the evil puppet says:

i had the same problem so i shortened the barrel.

Jun 24, 2008. 6:55 PMamtdude says:

block trigers anoy me

Jul 18, 2008. 11:44 AMamtdude says:

block trigers suck! alot!

Jul 29, 2010. 2:19 AMFred the evil puppet says:

they are awesome!

Jul 22, 2008. 9:35 AMzdog says:

I made a mod to the block trig and it works really good

Jul 7, 2008. 1:22 AMDrWeird117 says:

why? they're ingenious!

Feb 15, 2009. 8:54 AMbarrax says:

no, they are not. end of discussion, already.

Feb 15, 2009. 9:54 AMDrWeird117 says:

Matter of opinion, I guess. Sigh...

Apr 6, 2010. 9:32 AMNick F says:

What is that black piece in the tenth picture? I don't think I have it.

Apr 6, 2010. 9:24 AMNick F says:

What is that black piece in the ninth and tenth pictures?

Apr 6, 2009. 3:18 AMcharlie farthing says:

living in the parst

Jan 20, 2009. 10:09 AMAJonesx1 says:

i got to the rubber band stage but the pic's are so blurred! can you advise?

Oct 10, 2008. 12:08 AM291jd87 says:

dude look at my sniper

May 12, 2008. 11:21 AM

awsome says:

I also made some modifications, Actually I created a whole new gun. I took off half of the stock, up to the part with the wing piece. then I shortend the barrel to one grey rod. then I made another little handel in the front out of 2 yellow rods with 1 slot grey connectors. the only problem is you need many rubber bands to get the firing pin up to maximum power. also... it is very hard to pull back the firing pin because of all the connectors in the stock. that is why I moded it so that another grey rod is substituting the yellow...contraption. What is that black piece supposed to be?

Jan 13, 2008. 2:47 AMDutchj says:

There's no such thing as a good block trigger. The list just keeps getting longer and longer.

Apr 29, 2008. 11:00 AMDELETED_General Tim says:

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Apr 29, 2008. 11:25 AMDutchj says:

Well, I can speak Dutch, and I assume that's what you meant =D

The nickname doesn't avoid that question, sadly >_<

Mar 18, 2008. 5:57 PMabsolutfrost says:

what exactly is a block trigger? whats a different trigger?

Aug 13, 2008. 1:14 PMnoob builder says:

A block trigger is..Just a thing that u set like in barrel and push above or under to fire-Another trigger is a true trigger-pistol like trigger just a real based one and its WAY better!! (PS)the list is for writing down all block trigg' gunz .dot.

Jan 13, 2008. 4:13 PMadamsdead says:

Does that mean you dislike mine? lol

Jul 7, 2008. 1:23 AMDrWeird117 says:

omg ur a hero in knex guns, way up there with gorkem, dsman, all those ppl! i want ur autograph! lol

Jan 13, 2008. 10:27 PMDutchj says:

Your rifle isn't bad I suppose, at least it looks fine and has a slightly more complicated barrel. The firing pin doesn't work though.

Jan 14, 2008. 10:15 AMadamsdead says:

It doesn't? Huh I'll have to look into that, thanks for bringing that into my attention.

Apr 28, 2008. 3:01 AMiKill says:

there are plenty of good block triggers you must be dumb

Apr 28, 2008. 3:15 AMDutchj says:

Says the guy who replies to Adamsdead's post to call me dumb. A pure block trigger gun is bad, get over it. I may not have formulated it correctly before though: A gun without any new features and just a block trigger is bad. Happy now?

Apr 28, 2008. 1:03 PMiKill says:

going off what you said... and i quote "There's no such thing as a good block trigger. "

Apr 28, 2008. 1:19 PMDutchj says:

I'm not gonna argue about this. I've stated my view in several other posts.

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