Mini Rubber Band Crossbow

Rubber band shooting crossbow with trigger mechanism inspired by authentic medieval crossbow mechanisms.

Mini rubber band crossbow.

Take one of your strings a new rubber band and loop it between the two pencils that form the lathe. Take the cotton off one end of a cotton swab. The strings are the rubber bands that launch your arrow when you shoot. Don t tape the rubber band to the body of the crossbow or you don t be able to draw it back.

Snake eye tactical mini cobra crossbow pistol self cocking crossbow. If you want you can take a square of cardboard or fold over a piece of paper a few times and tape it around the rubber band to improve cradle. Glue the half piece of paint stirrer from step 5 onto the top of the clothes pin. You will also be able to continuously shoot and load up to 40 steel balls at once.

If the rubber band doesn t pull far enough unwrap it once from the arms. Subscribe like and rate. More precisely you will get to shoot up to 30 to 50 meters with ammo or 20 to 30. Shoots rubber bands with power and accuracy.

This pencil crossbow shoots way more accurate and a lot faster. This is the updated version of the mini pencil crossbow. The lower end of the stirrer should be between and 6mm and 1cm from the top of the shaft. Pull back on the rubber band and let go to fire.

You can use the clothespin as a simplified trigger for the rubber band based design. The crossbow is complete. Watch video this cool gun holds 2 rubber bands one on top and one on bottom. By placing the rubber bands in the pen caps the placing the pen caps over the pencils it creates a snug fit and requires no tape or glue this allows for easy changes in the rubber bands so your crossbow isn t stuck with broken rubber bands on it.

The support arms you see pictured are fiberglass driveway markers like you can find in most hardware stores. It is easy to load and fun to shoot these are the items needed 3 reg. Today i wanted to show you how to make a simple popsicle stick rubber band gun with a trigger. This cool mini sized rubberband gun was inspired by the wildly popular full sized gun that we released about 3 months ago.

How to make a rubber band gun with popsicle sticks. This miniature version fits snuggly inside a custom case that you make. The poles i used are 1 4 5 16 7 5mm 8 1mm and there is usually a pretty wide margin on how thick the poles are so you may need to. First lay your crossbow on the table so that the erasers at the end of the stock are facing you.

Now look at the lathe and find the rubber band on the righthand side.