The HORROR
Ban Car Springs...Quick
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and wood.
banning weapons,of any kind, in a technological society
is impossible.
There's always
THIS GUY.
I had a buddy that made a crossbow out of an old leaf spring. He had to use a crank to draw it back. It would shoot a stainless steel quarrel 4 inches into a telephone pole!
Very nice looking build. I reckon using braided steel cable would solve his drawstring issues. Salmon leader would probably work great. We used braided steel leaders on the trollers in Alaska, cuz salmon have damn sharp teeth, and nothing else lasted very long.
In an aside, I recall hearing of mutant Atlantic salmon that were modified so as to grow quickly, and to enormous size. Given how frequently salmon pens are escaped, the prospect of schools of 500 KG mutant salmon ravaging New Jersey beaches both inspired me to not swim in New Jersey beaches, and almost inspired me to write a cautionary tale.
Woulda made 'Jaws' look tame, but then some movie came out about mutant piranhas, and I was, once again, beat to the punch.
;-)
have you seen any of Joerg Sprave slingshot videos?
he has some pretty good one's. imho
One thing is for sure we don't need guns to kill. we seam to be good at figuring out diverse ways to kill..
pretty awesome ain't they?
I don't think I'd want to arm-wrestle that guy.
we're predators...it's genetic.
craftsmanship. wow
Incredible tool, but it seems a bit fragile.
yeah..ditch the wood.
and put wheels on it
and an electric wench.
I hear that over 25% of American men would have sex with an electric wench.
I dunno about that, but I know better than to stick my winkie in an electric winch.
=p
oh
you said winch
not wench.
Videos like this make me wish I had paid attention in shop class over half a century ago. Then again, if we had been making cool stuff like crossbows instead of dumb stools, I definitely would have paid attention!
In Alaska, we had pretty cool shop class. We made a hovercraft from a Yamaha motorcycle, used tires, and plywood. It was WAY too powerful, and was very easy to get too high off the ground for the skirts to keep it level. When it flipped, and dumped the hapless rider to the dirt, the prospect of hacking his students into little bits with the vicious propeller exposed on the inverted hovercraft, ended our experiments.
I made a napkin holder =p
The hovercraft demo probably led to some students to more inspired creations later in life. If they still exist, teachers like that deserve protection from SJWs (who surely prefer napkin holders) and awards for teaching excellence.
Yeah, instead he was pushed off a boat in a wheelchair. His was a sad tale, of intrigue, murder, sacrifice, and love.
One of the best lessons he ever taught me was coming into class with a rifle barrel in the shape of a 'y'. He explained that, out hunting, he had stumbled, and the rifle had been plunged into the snow. After resuming his upright stance, he had immediately seen a deer, and shot at it.
Or tried to. The snow formed a plug in the barrel, and split the bore from barrel mouth to breech. Apparently the deer got bored and left.
I wasn't bored.