Medieval Style Musket Ball Shooting Slingshot Crossbow

The Slingshot Channel has presented many slingshot crossbows already, but all have been rather long and narrow. This one is different, as it is following the medieval crossbow design by a great deal. The main differences is that rubber bands are used instead of a steel spring, and heavy lead balls are used as ammo rather than bolts.

It is amazing how effective rubber is, with just 48 lbs of draw force , 38 foot pounds of energy are achieved. The 576 gr (36 gramm) lead ball (.75") flies at 177 feet per second.

The whole weapon is of course home made, from scratch, took a whole Sunday. The steps are documented here:

http://slingshotforum.com/topic/8183-medieval-style-slingshot-crossbow/

A "The Slingshot Channel" production.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Slingshot
• Crossbow
• Jörg
• Sprave
• Catapult
• Schleuder
• Zwille

[monkeytits0]

Do u sell any crossbow slash slingshots

[JoergSprave]

@monkeytits0 No.

[IpodFailx700]

@ JoergSprave you said that it's a pain to retrieve arrows but isn't it also a pain to find lost balls, make new ones, or buy more?

[JoergSprave]

@IpodFailx700 99,99% of my BBs will "land" in my catchbox, retrieving is easy. An arrow that hits my archery target needs considerable force to be pulled out again (70 lbs bows). BBs are very inexpensive, I can get hundreds of BBs for the price of a single arrow. And the lead balls do not deform in the catchbox, as it is stuffed with old TShirts.

[itsmemaario]

Nice Audi A8

[JoergSprave]

@itsmemaario Sorry, it's just an A6. Company issue.

[JoergSprave]

@DemonicaaD14 I am working on a slingshot crossbow that shoots iphones as ammo.

[JoergSprave]

@ariuszarim No, the crank makes loading much slower. It is needed for prods that are too strong for handloading. But rubber is a lot more efficient than a steel spring, so no crank is needed. The draw is just 22 kg, a teenage boy can do that without a crank.

[MrZoominator]

Could u put a paintball instead of a steel ball

[cocacola100ist]

If you don't sell can you please make how to videos because i really want to make one of these

[xESOTERlC]

@bowhunter42995 Used to do a lot of bow hunting, etc, so I'm familiar.. N yeah for actual hunting steel balls may be cheaper but I'm thinking in regards to practice shooting.. I'm still of a mind that arrows would be cheaper. Numerous reuses whereas the steel balls would be pretty much single use

[bowhunter42995]

@xESOTERlC actually, arrows are very spendy. carbon arrows can be 12 bucks a pop. and traditional wood arrows can be even more. aluminum arrows are pretty cheap, but they bend very easily...

[braydenpresber]

i bought a large magnet with 2 wheels on it, one on each side, and a broom stick in the middle so it is shaper just like the letter "T", the magent is VERY powerful, i simply push it around my yard like a lawnmower and it picks up all of the balls.

[xESOTERlC]

Wouldn't arrows actually be cheaper? Easier to find and can be reused.. While steel balls gotta get pretty expensive when always buying new ones ^^

I need to go scavenging around your place xD

[jackafa92]

very nice

[laskakamil]

1:25 'it shoots fine...... let me show you...(smile)' - hilarious :)