Testing Skewer Slingshots
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The Modern Rogue what's up Brian°○☆
Condoms and empty toilet rolls are way more effective.
you guys need to consider these projectiles used in gang warfare in the philippines. these are VERY DEADLY so be VERY CAREFUL if you're gonna try these.
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If you would have used elastic bands like for exercise and metal skewers like they use in a restaurant you would have much better success
Hey guys I just wanted to say thank you for rapid response week. I was in a massive car accident last Friday and that video was the first thing that popped to head when assessing what to do for others in my vehicle.
Holy cow! I'm so sorry you had the wreck, but I'm thrilled to hear that we helped in some way.
BIG oof.
feel good man, don't even trip.
Best of luck out there, stay safe
@@ModernRogue dont care
@@harrygregory6227 who pissed on your cereal lol
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Great, now I don't need to watch any more episodes, it's just going to feel formulaic!
Not today "DAAAANNN"
And the outtakes is just that but way stupider
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“Ha ha you are pregnant now” my favorite quote
True genius
What i said to my wife
Wanmohan what I said to my stepmom
small coins make EXTREMELY GOOD projectiles for this, also use heavier gloves so you can pull back really far.
You should use balloons
Metal skewers too
If only one of your writers did an article on the better way to make the slingshot. like, a handsome, bald, dashing writer. one named like, Andrew Benge, or something. *cough cough*
sorry for the shameless plug here but i bet you can get this to them. If you want to put some real power behind bamboo skewers you need clear plastic forks, rubber bands and one pen. optionally a fold-back clip and tape will upgrade it. You can make bows or crossbows that are far more accurate and has at least 4 times the force.
Jorge
Sprave
I had a dream about Jason earlier. I was fishing, overshot the stream and managed to hook a fox hiding in the bushes. I looked over and there was Jason so I asked him what to do, and he gave this sage nod "ahhh yeah, I've seen this all too many times, follow me". Then I woke up
I had a dream about Jason too
Except he was murdering me.
I had a dream about Jason too.
Except he was robbing my entire family with an old-timey switchblade like it was Gangs of New York. He kept snapping his fingers and tapping his foot to some inaudible rhythm while whispering some sort of song lyrics under his breath. He killed my dad and stole my sister. I asked for an autograph as he slinked away, wide-legged and low-hipped, but he just cackled like a witch, which is definitely more of a Brian thing.
The Blunderbuss is always the answer no matter the situation.
You are having major stability issues, as indicated by the skewers all being in the board in different angles.
As a basic aerodynamics thing, the so called 'center of pressure' needs to be behind the 'center of mass' looking at it from the way it is pointing. The further away this center of pressure the more stable your flying object will be. The center of pressure is roughly the middle of the area of the object, whilst the center of mass is in the middle of the weight of the object (balance the skewer on your finger horizontally, where it is stable, is about the center of mass). The thick thing on the back of the skewer is increasing the area on the back, but also pretty heavy since its solid. I think that is why it is making it less stable. Making some very simple paper (or old school feather) flights on the end would increase the stability significantly.
Although to be honest, stabbing someone with the skewer is probably more effective.
Wow, who stayed in school?
They just need rifled glove fingers. The the cp can be in front of the cg.
Wow. You got super sciency. They’re usually just science adjacent 🤣
Middle finger of a marigold, just the bottle neck no need for the funnel, 3/8" ball bearings.
Yeah and the could have cut holes in bottle caps and screwed them on as to secure the balloons/gloves.
What I was thinking the whole time
“Oh, man! Why did you [[Explore_Topic_Organically]] when you could just [[Purchase_Existing_Product]] or [[Watch_Other_TH-cam_Video]]?”
I love how all of these video's are set up and edited.There's just something so soft and mellow and easy to watch with the chill music, filters, lens choices, mics. Even the subtle sounds of simple material like duct tape, and plastics have this soothing asmr quality to them. Plus we get to learn cool stuff! good work
You guys are my favorite internet "scientists". Keep doing what you do best.
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Actually "fart" is the word for "speed" in swedish not german.
Check the description of the video
@@slimedookie it says norwegian
@@christofferuden7680 It's the same in Norwegian and Swedish
Ihr fahrt in german.
But fahren means drive not speed
We used to make gloveguns back in primary school, we used dish washing gloves, you have to find the right ones though, they're much thicker than those hygiene gloves. They're harder to pull back but you get far stronger projectile output if you really pull them hard (they're tough enough). For the barrel we'd use pvc pipe off cuts we'd find laying around or even saw off bits of dried bamboo segments. Brian had the right idea with attaching the glove so it folds out and around the nozzle but then passes back through the barrel (provided you have a large enough glove finger). Before you attach the glove, you can fold pieces of electrical tape around where you cut the pipe it it's too sharp to fold the glove over. The bottle idea looks terrible for accuracy, you want a sturdy straight barrel you can hold steady while yanking that glove as hard as you can. For projectiles we used everything from ball bearings, fishing sinkers, or most commonly these perfectly round rockhard seeds that would drop from trees all over our suburb. It's also fun to experiment with soft projectiles such as berries and grapes and watch them go splat, you just have to pinch the tip of the glove BEHIND the berry so you don't squish it with your fingers. I got hit in the eye once, from about 15 metres away, we all got in lots of trouble, haha. Best of luck!
My pals and I made something similar. We used straws, rubber bands that were slightly wider than a skewer, and duct tape. The straw holds the skewer and gives it a straight path, cut the rubber band, tape it to one end of the straw, like a regular slingshot. It was amazing how accurate and fast it shot. Had fun shooting cans! You guys are awesome! Always look forward to the next episode from y’all!!
5:11 Brian, Schnell is the word for speed, Fahren is to drive
I thought "Schnell" was "faster"? Also, what do we know. We couldn't identify the Belgian flag.
Not quite. Schnell == Quick/Fast. Geschwindigkeit == Speed. But Fahren == drive is correct :)
Crypnox ah ok, thank you
The Modern Rogue True
fart is swedish for speed though
you have to use those thick latex dishwashing gloves, way thicker, giving it more speed and durability
Take a thick rubber band, the purple kind you would find around a bundle of asparagus, and a pen body with the end plug and ink/head out so you just have a tube to act as a barrel. Lay the rubber band flat so it is doubled layered on itself and place the middle of your now doubled up strip of rubber over the back of the open ended pen body. Hold the two excess bits of rubber down to the sides of the pen body and tightly wrap around with tape or another thin rubber band near the ends (of the excess rubber, to give you as much stretch as you need, adjust where you wrap for more power) to secure them to the body. Insert skewer into the pen head opening of your now barrel, pinch it with the rubber band at the back like a slingshot, pull and fire. You will be much more accurate and do much much more damage with one of these. Used to make them all the time when I was younger. To anyone reading this, its your own damn fault if you hurt yourself or anyone else with this. Take some personal responsibility.
There was so much that was great about this episode. But Brian giggling and saying "Were adults" is possibly my favorite thing in the history of this show. And that's saying something because I LOVE this show!
I'm amazed I havnt seen any lost foam aluminum casting or spray paint hydrodiping on this channel yet.
You ought to have tried with the ball bearings using the new designs
"I think I want to overdo it." Brushwood's motto for living.
Used to make these growing up, could shoot bamboo skewers about an inch into wood utility poles.
Take a standard bic pen. The kind that you can take the ink well out of, and the back cap off of so it's just a hollow tube (I'd assume you can use any hollow tube of this size but bic pens are great because they leave some room for the skewer to be accurate but not too much that it gets stuck). Next you take a rubber band, and essentially loop it in an infinity style (or figure 8, whatever) shape towards the back of one end of the pen so that one of the circles of the eight hugs the end of the pen, and the other hangs off to be used as the slingshot mechanism. Tape this/tie this arrangement down as tightly as possible. Now load the skewer in pointy end facing frontwards through the front of the pen tube, and pull the skewer back making sure it stays with the rubber band. Should really fly out of there.
Would also imagine this is doable on a bigger scale with a bigger tube and some surgical tubing for stronger effect, the tube would have to be a stronger material to avoid bending though.
Jason - "Uh... Thats not their slogan..." Brian - "That's my slogan!!"
Jason - "Okay Brian..."
Please learn how to hold your breath for an extended period of time PS. Love your videos keep it up
Spoiler: Brian still manages to injure his hand.
That would be a good video
For about 4 months I would practice holding my breath at random times throughout the day. I went from 30 seconds, to 4 and a half minutes. Then I stopped practicing for a year and was back at 30 seconds
try the wim hoff method. i've heard it works surprisingly well.
Rusbla 00 Hell yes. This is LEGIT.
you guys are one of my favourite channels; there was a king of random episode for those slingshots. grant thompson used gatorade bottles for their bigger necks and even throwing a marshmallow seemed like it hurt like hell. also as skewers are not really aerodynamic, it'd be better if you use pellets; or modify those skewers with some feathers. I really hope to see an update to your armoury :)
gotta love brian wearing a full riot faceshield not even for slingshots mind you, but a poor facsimile of a child's homemade slingshot.
use straw as a barrel for better acuracy,put toilet paper in the finger so it doesnt keep breaking.i think backwards way is more acurate because you can hold it better when rubber is under tension.even ductape tail would be too heavy relative to the scewer prob so idk maybe small ductape tail Y shaped
also maybe use a balloon instead of the gloves ??
@@benjago9042 no use thats what they have already done. i reckon a condom would actually work really well
@@daggyy the real way to go is use the friggin proper ballon for the job... dont use the regular round type... use the noodle type that inflate into those elongated sausages that are maybe 10 cm thick
they are designed for stretching mainly in length, that way you get a full arms length of draw
just to make it clear: i do not mean the ones that are used for balllon animals...
i shot ball bearings into drywall with those with the core of a toilet paper roll as a handle
TheScarvig arent they too narrow? also arms length? tip will just pierce the baloon guranteed maybe your hand too XD
@@royjonesrampage6684 only usable with BBs at arms length of course....
the skewers are way too light to fly straight for more than a couple of meters. alternative for real deadliness are darts made from coat hanger wire!
the ballon noodles I had were as thick as a pinkie when uninflated. so not much different from the gloves.
alternatively you can pre stretch the rubber by inflating them once before use.
You guys should make a suit of armor next
Fuck yeah
@@TheKgg define: "suit of armor"...
@@TheKgg i meant the modern rogues definition of armor suit
Made from cardboard reinforced fiberglass
@@jx592 bruh im in class and i just fucking died of laughter on my table
Your many options to upgrade
1: use metal skewers
2: use RUBBER gloves
3use a full rotation of layered RUBBER asparagus bands (the wide thick purple ones)
3: take a hose end (about 1/2 skewer length)and attach it to the bottle neck then attach the bands so that you drop the longer style skewers down the pipe and pull it back so that it stabilizes it while acceleration is happening for longer
4: use paper clips bent straight
5: use a hard pvc pipe with a glued on handle, put the band through two(well any even number, the more slits, the more stable, the more bands needed, the more power...) cut slits down the side (long end of the pipe is cut and comes up your arm toward you) with a small attached coin and paperclip slide arm to pull back.
6: to defeat the lack of accuracy use numbers, place several toothpicks or paperclip rods or something into a launching tube and fire a buckshot all at once
7: use exercise bands or similar things
8: swap from rubber to a spring mechanism and you can even set it on a trigger decently
9: use a vacuum and heavy duty balloons/condoms/other thick and heavy rubbery bubbles to get more pull back and uniformity that you can release with a flip of a switch
10: coat the projectiles in lubricant before loading(bonus, these can be made flammable in some cases)
11: use drill bits, self tapping screws, or similar things
12: use a metal band that is secured under two holders on the side instead of a traditional rubber band, even a snap band would work to a lesser degree, but a stronger band is recommended
13: use glue, maybe a toothpick or paperclip core, and clay to cast out full flechette style darts to fire
14: hammer bottle caps flat and fling those
15: sharpen penny edges and fire those
16: use part of the discarded bottle to make fletchings for your skewers
17: add a thin wire line between two projectiles to make a garrote bola
18: make reverse angled cuts to the head of the skewer to make it into a burrowing barb
You want a longer barrel, stronger rubber, a little extra weight on the tips of the skewer and some fins. Large balloons are a good choice and adding something on the inside to grab onto helps, something along the lines of duck tape on the inside of it so you can grab onto it and not worry about the skewers going through it. Fins can be made of any light, flexible stuff, even simple tape (not ducktape). As for a longer barrel, you'll find something. I've used some tubes I found which were not so big. Remember that extra weight on the skewers will go a long way, you could also opt for sharp pencils. The rubber shouldn't pull too far back either. You can pull back as far as you want so long as the skewer is still in the barrel, because if it leaves the barrel you'll run into issues. Try to avoid massive blunder busters as it adds little guide for the projectile. A barrel that is slightly larger than a straw would work. You've now created a blow gun that uses rubber. Now adorn sights to your new weapon for additional style points.
Making kabobs is going to be so fun now
This is how I got a skewer in my hand that left a good scar
Hey me too, I made one these when I was younger using a pen casing and a rubber band, it could drive the skewers into drywall. The slingshot (?) worked pretty well until I pulled the skewer back to far and shot it into my finger.
Way back in the late 1980s, we used to use the larger hollow plastic rods from coat hangers(a foot or so long somewhere around +-1/3" diameter inside)
and the dish-washing glove fingers to make very sturdy versions of the same.
Now having had been around 8-10 years old at the time and what I recall from it is that shooting pointy things from it sucked, but shooting BBs, dried peas, staining berries etc. through
that long barrel worked really well. Now, this all leads to "juvenile weapon #2" of way back in the day... or the folded sticky note and gum dart.
Which being said with regard to all of the above as you guys described this effort is a "weapons of nuisance" at best.
"...In their doctor castle" The world that Brian lives in must be a wonderful place.
I have a life motto also a collage yearbook quote: anything can be a knife if you try hard enough
And the lesser known cousin. Anything is a sex toy if you're brave enough.
@@ShardtheWolf And the corollary "Lube is for quitters"
Anything can be made into a knife of you try hard enough for me
I'm a bladesmith
And Everything can be dildo if you are brave enough.
@@UltimateSpanky73 bamboo skewers work too
Ya'll should've used condoms, pvc pipe, and some sort of whisker biscuit assembly; to make the skewers fly.
Seconding the recommendation for condoms. Those things _really_ stretch. (Just make sure you use the unlubricated kind.) Also, maybe try twisting up the skewers inside the slingshot so they spin when you release them for a bit of gyroscopic stabilization. And maybe use steel cooking skewers if you feel like being irresponsible.
I third the condom idea
@@ForwardTokage Hey, when your sixteen in West Virginia. You have to make your own fun. I'm waiting for the gas station clerk to ask, " How many girls you got?"
The way we always made these when I was a kid was with the finger of a dish glove duct taped to about 20cm of 3/4 inch PVC pipe. We called it a 'glove gun'. I just used gravel from the driveway as ammo but ball bearings might work better. I think the pipe must have given it a lot more accuracy than what you've got going now. Worth giving it a go!
I love this! Doing a series of projects that involve the community. It's just brilliant!
Fahrt is the german wors for drive.
The word for speed is Geschwindigkeit.
Ihr modernen Halunken!
If you really want to do damage you should use a finger from one of those thick yellow rubber gloves. Those with ball bearings should be pretty damm good
I would recommend a wide mouth bottle and the balloon. Then take the cap and cut out the center so that you have a ring with the threads and you can use that to screw the balloon onto the mouth of the bottle. Also make sure that you're long projectiles are properly weighted and be careful with how you release it as that will affect your aim. Keep up the great work, guys!
These two are the best duo on TH-cam. I love you guys!
Maybe sharpened pencils? Then the eraser would be less likely to rip the rubber? Maybe?
Gabriel Strom too heavy you would need a very strong rubber
But if you had a strong rubber it would be very effective
remember doing this in school with paper balls,
so much fun
Now that I'm binging MR, I love that I keep seeing all my stupid childhood projects recreated. Can this channel get any better
Glove fingers: bad idea
Skewers: bad idea
Bottle: Good idea
Now I'd say mix the two, go back to balloons and ball bearings but keep the bottle instead of key rings. Also, you could try knitting needles instead of skewers... They might be less likely to be affected by wind.
Knitting needles are scarily easy to sharpen into very sharp points so that could work well
projectiles too light, gloves too flimsy Oof
“You wanna cut off a finger on this bad boy?”
Those are dangerous words to be saying to the king of hand injuries.
Hey! I made it in!
So for a bit more pointers here; sorry Brian but yes, the passionately named "blunder bus" is certainly the way to go! Think of this weapon more like a bow than a slingshot; the force from you pulling the balloon back should push the cone of the bottle into your hand helping you be a little bit more stable when taking the shot. Also for ammo? Metal BBs were definitely the right choice! You are going to need that weight to really make those shots fly. Personally I am more partial to pebbles since the true nature of this slingshot is it's easily obtained ammo as to never run out or have to search for more ammo.
Now as for improving a launch method; you really want something as stretch as possible. Maybe those balloons used for balloon animals might be better? I haven't tested it; but possibly freezing the balloon beforehand could help strengthen it's elasticity? Thicker balloons definitely seem like the better option; but mind you they are also a lot harder to handle due to the force needed to pull them far back!
Thanks for reading these, and good luck!
The Modern Rogue is like Mythbusters but with more adult activities and I love every second of it.
And a smaller budget. Do you not think these characters would be blowing shit up at every opportunity if they could?
Exploding quarterstaves!
Exploding quarterstaves?? Hang on, lemme get a pen...
When i was a kid, i used to make them this way:
1. cut the bottle top off as close to the threaded area as possible
2. cut the balloon about 2/3 from the bottle
3. combine and tape the hell out of it with electrical tape
4. profit
5. use small rocks/hard berries as ammo
As kids in Australia (Yeah we all did/do it) we used the Thumb of thick washing gloves (The type with the grip for the pads of your fingers) attached to the ends of PVC conduit pipes (about 2.5cm/1in diameter)... but it's best done with pebbles as skewers will always loose aerodynamics. Think about it this way. How many guns fire arrows through a barrel propelled by sudden force like gunpowder
The Blunderbuss is a better use due to the extra material being in front of the point at which you are stabalising the sling. This makes it much easier to aim straight and keep the Ring straight (perpendicular to the skewer). If the glove is travelling straight when released there is less chance of it slapping your hand.
If you want the best of both worlds ("Blunderbuss" = accuracy of firing. "The Wimp Grip" = protection of hand) You can fix 2 bottle tops together like an hour class. Make sure they are straight and tight.
Tension>length for the glove. This is why the thumb is better. You want to keep pressure as close to the release point as possible.
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> Forcefully spits skittles out in laughter
The scewer handle is the heaviest part and at the back, so the momentum drives the dart from the back, inevitably pushing it off line. When the weight is at the front, the spear/arrow is pulled and straightens more naturally, even without fletching.
Careful, Brian. That bamboo could be haunted
Seeing you guys outside makes this so much better, I can't wait for summer so much vibes in this video
Empty pen tube, rubber band, skewer. Best combination. Made some of these with my brother when we were younger and they performed really well
HERE IS THE ANSWERE: use balloons (layer them for more power) snip off the balloons neck. Take JUST the threaded ring of the bottle(bigger the bottle head the more had room you have) fit the balloon over the bottle head and put the sealing ring over top of the balloon. You can even screw back on the lid of the bottle to have a contained unit. If you want to use skewers then drill a hole the diameter of the skewer through the lid and insert the skewer through the hole. My friends and I were able to nearly perfect this and used airsoft bbs to hit each other over long distances.
Pocket sling shot. Need, gatorade bottle, balloon, knife or saw, and ammo of some sort like a pebble or marble or something. Take a Gatorade bottle cut directly above the part of the bottle where the plastic turns from round to straight. Take the plastic band off then place a ballon over the mouth of the bottle. Replace the plastic band/ring over the balloon and pull back to fire your choice of ammo. Keep the lid to store ammo in it as well.
Gatorade bottle neck(none of the bottle), one of those big punching balloons.
Use a hacksaw to cut off all of the bottle from the neck, sand it smooth with sandpaper.
Take off the ring that was connected to the cap(do not throw away).
Cut off the neck of the balloon.
Wrap it over the wider end of bottle neck, pull it about halfway up.
Put the ring back on, roll the balloon rubber back over it.
Now it is ready to fire
Also just bought the arson watch
5:13 fart is also Swedish for speed. And also exit, entrance and speed-bump in Swedish is utfart, infart and farthinder
Alright, this rogue is going to the hardware store on his lunch break and building one the way I used to do it as a kid. Copper pipes, a worm gear hose clamp, and various projectiles. The hose clamp made it easier to replace the glove fingers and remove the need to hold the glove finger yourself. Hooray for no hand injuries.
Instead of latex gloves you can go with nitrile since they are a little more durable but latex was my best option in the early 90's.
The best way I found to make a sling shot out of a bottle is to use a bottle with a large top like on Gatorade bottles and cut it under the part wear the cap screws on. Next gently pry up the bit of plastic located slightly under the cap threads that seals the bottle. Use something like a flat head screwdriver and dont break the plastic. Now that it is off take a balloon and cut it slightly under the neck of it then slide it over the top of the bottle and make sure you slide it over the side you cut about to the second thread line. Now slide the bit of plastic you took off early back on wear it was originally as this will hold the balloon in place. You are now done and can use as sling shot. Oh and as a side note you can fill it with ammo and put the cap on so it does not spill.
Love the videos you guys put out you keep me entertained and give me new ideas to try it out on the back 40 that we have
Thanks, man!
What's very popular with kids here in Germany (or at least it was when I was a child) is taking a piece of garden hose (something like 3.5 inches) and the thumb of one of these garden gloves made from thick rubber. Put those together and load it up with raw corn (usually one kernel at a time). Hurts like hell and I'm surprised none of us lost an eye when we were battling each other with these on the playground.
Getting stronger elastics and using an hollow arrow, shortened with small fletching, and twisting the grip when pullen back gives it a better trajectory
Use a ballon and soda bottle in the blunder-bus way, better skewers and more of them.
Shotgun Skewers!
If you want more accurate shots
1. Ensure you pull back straight. If you are off the projectile will not fly straight.
2. Weight the tip of the projectile. Having a balanced projectile will cause it to tilt mid air and have a potential to go in nice and flat like you want.
Make those changes and then reassess. Hope this helps.
Btw I dont think Brian's or Jason's design are that different but Jason's might have a slight advantage due to the fact his provides a better grip to counteract the force of pulling back the rubber glove although I can see Brian's design easier to hold onto after release.
When I was younger me and my friends used to make slingshots from 8 inch long and 1 inch diameter PVC pipes with a balloon attached to the back with tape. With those slingshots we could shoot pretty much anything from skewers to ball bearings. You could try that, good luck!
Something that my friends and I did in middle school was, take a water balloon, plastic tube from a pen, and toothpicks, and then shot them in a very similar fashion to what you did in the video. We were able to successfully get the toothpicks stuck into each other. I had one get stuck about half an inch into my calf. Lots of fun!
Take a shot every time Brian says “blunderbuss”
Hey guys. I did this sort of project one time, but the best thing I found was a cap and the cut off very top of a large Gatorade, juice, or even milk plastic bottle. You could take the little plastic ring thingy that you get when you unscrew the cap to hold the ballon down and screw the cap back on to store the projectiles.
The way Jason was doing it was correct! As a kid I would make these using balloons instead of gloves. Also I recommend shooting something like beans or plastic BB pellets. If you want it to be effective as a weapon then use metal BB pellets.
*Jason
At this point, I really feel like the logical conclusion of this series is atlatls. Because there's no possible way that could go horribly wrong.
0:56 "Slingshot can be a deadly weapon"
As someone who watches Joerg Sprave's channel, yeah. Have you seen how much draw he pulls on his slingshots? A ball bearing can EASILY kill stuff.
I love building these! Using balloon animal balloons is amazing for this, as well as using wooden dowels. they're denser and more stable.
My personal favorite is using an empty cellotape roll (mayb a full one could be used also) and still just the balloon. The thicker wall means you're much less likely to hit your hands because your fingers shouldn't be (much) fatter than the roll size. Good luck!
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German watcher here: "Fahrt" is the noun for "to drive" ("the drive" however would be a different word in german). Most correctly it would be translated with something like "journey"
As far as I know, fahrt in german means like drive or ride. So like, ausfahrt means exit, or more literally "from drive" (or drive from), as opposed to zufahrt which means exit, or "to drive" (drive to). You journey to an entrance, you journey from an exit. What is the german word for speed? I think some modern germans just say speed. Theres also schnelle, which kind of means haste, if you want someone to speed up you say "make haste". Blitz means lightning which can mean fast. Then theres geschwindigkeit, which means more like, physical translocation speed. It's interesting how long the word geschwindigkeit looks, but its actually just as short as the english word when its said. It's the same number of syllables as velocity, and basically means the same thing
I dont think the direction of the bottle makes a huge difference, blunderbuss or otherwise. It's basically just about the cap, and the cone is there to hold onto, because its not like the cone is a tube thats going to be guilding the bolt. However, I could imagine that having the cone on the firing side vs on the hand side creates a kind of donut air cushion, which slightly discourages the bolt from flying to the sides, kind of as if it were a tube
I dunno if sharp things are better than round things if you have no fletching and no spin
Two problems, the first is that the projectile is not dense enough and needs more inertia. A metal projectile will fix that, a nail for example. The second is the rubber isn't strong enough, use a much sturdier glove. This will enable you to store far more energy when stretching it, which will be needed with a heavier projectile. Preferably you want the projectile front heavy to make it fly straight too. If you have a strong enough rubber, it will most certainly be lethal.
Thick gardening rubber gloves plus a part of a garden hose instead of a bottle top. That's how we did it back in the day 😅
Great video guys heres a few pointer that might help: Use a bottle with a much larger opening such as a Gatorade bottle, to attach the balloon or finger to the bottle use the plastic ring that's on the bottle and make a more aerodynamic projectile to let you shoot longer distances and be more accurate
There's a great video by the king of random that will help make some great ones
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You guys are the perfect duo
rubber bands and pens with the skewers instead, works like a dream
You should use the “ balloon animal” balloons. They are tougher and they are straight. They also have a lip at the end that can help it lock into the threads of the bottle. And I think if you put a hole in the end of the bottle cap you could put the skewer through the hole and lock the balloon on the threads. This won’t work the “blunderbuss” way though.
Hope this helps.
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More friendly notes:use a Gatorade bottle for the wider mouth and cut just below the lip of the lid, as close to it as possible. Also I just used balloons and was shooting small arrows with very little problem, just use 3-5 balloons. Now I wanna see a part 3 :) good luck
Jason’s idea of the kitchen gloves would work a lot better.
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To be more deadly all you need is a bear hat and sticky paws like a certain old west cowboy.
I’ve made a much more powerful one using the shell casing of a ball point pen to hold a skewer in place. I would then build a cross using rubber bands and pencils, attaching the shell casing on top. You can fit one end of a rubber band pinched between the shell casing and the “cross”, giving access to using the backend of shell to house your skewer and load it onto your rubber band.
Guys, use a thick ballon and split the back of the skewers like 1 inch and put a small rectangular piece of thin cardboard or paper then tape or tie the back of the split so the "wing" doesn"t fall. You've now got a skewer that looks like an arrow and flies straight.
I used to do this a lot as a kid and the skewers would fly about 20 meteres and get stuck in my neighbour's wooden roof.... So yeah... Use a ballon without the blowing part/ tube so you got a pouch and the cardboard and you get a very effective weapon that gets stuck in wood
The way I used to do this (when I was young and dumb) was to unscrew the top and bottom of a cheap plastic pen, cut a thick/wide rubber band and place it over one end of the pen, tightly wrap with another rubber band to keep the cut rubber band in place. Also just get cheap skewers with no 'flingledoodles'.
As a kid I just used a wide band elastic and a straw with a nail jammed into the end. Was pretty accurate and was able to pierce drywall, plywood and soda cans. Good times
In school, we used to do it with a bottleneck, dish glove fingers and our projectile was the inside of a ballpoint pen (the ink cartridge with the metal tip). Now THAT was deadly.
I made one a while back with a rubber band or two, the casing to a mechanical pencil, and maybe hot glue. worked well.