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dilweed
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Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:26 pm

Hello, i thouht of a cool idea yesterday. Basically i plan to make a crossbow that shoots bb's at hopfully decent speeds. I have already built a cross bow and enjoy firing 30 gram bolts at decent speeds. I use a completely homemade cross bow, with a medium power, fiber glass bow. I plan on building a plunger and trigger, to act like a springer pellet gun, except ill use the bow, and sprinss to propel the plunger. I cant measure the draw but its pretty powerfull. I will use 5 grain homemade pellets, a piston chamber ratio of 1(barrel)/4(chamber). I think ill modify a bike pump for the chamber, with really THICK METAL. If it is strong enough, ill then DO some deiseling! Tell me what youy think and please give some advice. I cant take pictures yet, my parents set up my phone so i cant use the internet and send emails with links!
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Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:41 pm

My intitial thoughts is it would be a highly inefficient, overly complicated way to shoot a BB. If you're inclined to pursue it for the fun of it, by all means, knock yourself out. They abandoned bow power a long time ago for a reason.

Your other comments rambled on something about bike pump chambers and thick metal and some dieseling.?.?

...and I assume you mean that the camera part of you phone is basically useless because the appropriate cell service to send them has been limited by your parents.
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:49 am

YEP, my parents are mean!
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Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:21 am

Actually jsr had a design like that for airsoft sorry no links it is guaranteed he will see this post and reply.
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