Mini Rubber Band Crossbow

You can use the clothespin as a simplified trigger for the rubber band based design.

Mini rubber band crossbow.

Pull back on the rubber band and let go to fire. Take the cotton off one end of a cotton swab. The crossbow is complete. Don t tape the rubber band to the body of the crossbow or you don t be able to draw it back.

Shoots rubber bands with power and accuracy. It comes with the powerful rubber bands which make it possible to shoot very accurately at a long distance. First lay your crossbow on the table so that the erasers at the end of the stock are facing you. This pencil crossbow shoots way more accurate and a lot faster.

Stick the swab through the top pair of holes starting at the top of the. 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. 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.

If the rubber band doesn t pull far enough unwrap it once from the arms. You will also be able to continuously shoot and load up to 40 steel balls at once. 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.

Take one of your strings a new rubber band and loop it between the two pencils that form the lathe. It is easy to load and fun to shoot these are the items needed 3 reg. Pull the rubber band down over the top of the bottlecap. Watch video this cool gun holds 2 rubber bands one on top and one on bottom.

The strings are the rubber bands that launch your arrow when you shoot. Snake eye tactical mini cobra crossbow pistol self cocking crossbow. Subscribe like and rate. Rubber band shooting crossbow with trigger mechanism inspired by authentic medieval crossbow mechanisms.

Glue the half piece of paint stirrer from step 5 onto the top of the clothes pin. Today i wanted to show you how to make a simple popsicle stick rubber band gun with a trigger. More precisely you will get to shoot up to 30 to 50 meters with ammo or 20 to 30. This is the updated version of the mini pencil crossbow.

The support arms you see pictured are fiberglass driveway markers like you can find in most hardware stores.