Mini Rubber Band Crossbow

Glue the half piece of paint stirrer from step 5 onto the top of the clothes pin.

Mini rubber band crossbow.

Today i wanted to show you how to make a simple popsicle stick rubber band gun with a trigger. You can use the clothespin as a simplified trigger for the rubber band based design. 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. This is the updated version of the mini pencil crossbow.

How to make a rubber band gun with popsicle sticks. First lay your crossbow on the table so that the erasers at the end of the stock are facing you. Snake eye tactical mini cobra crossbow pistol self cocking crossbow. The strings are the rubber bands that launch your arrow when you shoot.

More precisely you will get to shoot up to 30 to 50 meters with ammo or 20 to 30. Stick the swab through the top pair of holes starting at the top of the. This miniature version fits snuggly inside a custom case that you make. This pencil crossbow shoots way more accurate and a lot faster.

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. Now look at the lathe and find the rubber band on the righthand side. Pull back on the rubber band and let go to fire.

It is easy to load and fun to shoot these are the items needed 3 reg. The support arms you see pictured are fiberglass driveway markers like you can find in most hardware stores. You will also be able to continuously shoot and load up to 40 steel balls at once. The lower end of the stirrer should be between and 6mm and 1cm from the top of the shaft.

Rubber band shooting crossbow with trigger mechanism inspired by authentic medieval crossbow mechanisms. Pull the rubber band down over the top of the bottlecap. 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.

Don t tape the rubber band to the body of the crossbow or you don t be able to draw it back. 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. The crossbow is complete. 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.

If the rubber band doesn t pull far enough unwrap it once from the arms.