Rubberband rifle

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Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:17 am

I have made many rubber rifles and I want to make a semi auto or full auto one..like a gatling gun. any plans n such?
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Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:59 am

ive only made a semi auto pistol that shoot about 8 rounds in like 20 seconds. i dont really think you can do a gatling gun-like rubber band gun.
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Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:04 am

I thought about making one a while back. Basically, my design was like a gatling gun but instead of barrels I had wooden dowels with grooves filed (with a round file) into the front so the rubber bands stay in place. Nailed to the top (farthest from the axis of rotation) of each barrel closest to the breech was a wooden clothespin. I'd load each barrel by strechting a rubber band over the groove in the "barrel" and clip the other end in the clothespin. All the barrels would be attached to a rotating axel like a gatling gun. A slanted peice of wood fixed outside the barrels aligned on a slant would depress the back of each clothespin as it passed, firing each rubber band at a rate of fire solely dependant on how fast you crank the axel.
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Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:16 pm

I made a very powerful rubber band gun a long, long time ago.

check out the design here : http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/crossbo ... t2172.html

it was more powerful than most pneumatic marble guns out here.( but defenitly not all!!)

I really should start building these things again!!
It was so much fun!!
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 5:37 pm

Oh, I thought he meant a gun to shoot the rubberbands themselves!

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Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:27 pm

There is a plastic gatling gun that holds about 60 rubber bands my son has one got it at a local carnavel.I will try and post a pic in a day or two.
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goose_man wrote:Oh, I thought he meant a gun to shoot the rubberbands themselves!

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Wow...me too.

If it were up to me...i'd just get some surgical tubing and do it up right.
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Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:07 pm

sounds fun as

mm yer here's some inspiration:

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if you make it will you be allowed to post it on here? maybe the bb/pettet gun section?
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Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:52 am

i built one out of k'nex a while ago, i dont have any pics sorry and i took it apart to make this pump shotgun thing. you should check instructables.com
i saw a belt fed k'nex machine gun on there a while back. im sure theres got to be something.
be sure to check out my <a href="http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/ak-styl ... 9.html">AK Styled Vortex Gun</a> and my <a href="http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/at-4-t9627.html">AT-4 Rocket</a>

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Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:00 am

Wait, a gun powered by rubberbands? Why do that when you can power things with much more devastating effects in a pnumatic or combustion gun. It is a novel idea, I guess :roll:
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If it walks like a dog, sratches like a dog, and barks like a dog, than its probobly a...-TURTLE, it's a TURTLE!!! Cant you see?!!!
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Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:16 am

turbohacker no...not powered by rubberbands..shoots rubber bands :roll: ..i was deeply inspired by the video posted by chaos few months back..
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Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:23 am

and besides its more fun whenyou can shoot people. :twisted:
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Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:44 am

No shooting of random people... :idea: how bout friends and make a scenario??
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