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Archery will never be the same again. You just have to check this out, the genesis of this design. (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Dec 2019 OP
I think when Diggle took over as Green Arrow, he was using a similar device. Someone on the show rwsanders Dec 2019 #1
Correct, it is just a sport and 95% or more just hit at non-live static targets Perseus Dec 2019 #10
More lethal weapons. Great! Just the world needs. n/t Julian English Dec 2019 #2
Exactly! Duppers Dec 2019 #7
I would venture to think that 95% of the people, if not more who use bow & arrows Perseus Dec 2019 #9
I've actually know of several homicides involving bows & arrows Julian English Dec 2019 #13
there used to be a lot! certainot Dec 2019 #15
ever been to the cody wyo gun museum? that's an incredible monument to wasted creativity, certainot Dec 2019 #16
I always tell my kids that there is no limit to the creativity or expense people will go to to kill rwsanders Dec 2019 #19
Far less than a gun and the draw I suspect is probably lower power than a traditional arrow would be cstanleytech Dec 2019 #21
This German dude is having more fun than should be legal, LOL. KY_EnviroGuy Dec 2019 #3
I like this guy, and I like the well-thought-out wooden simplicity of his designs. NBachers Dec 2019 #4
very cool trusty elf Dec 2019 #5
Belongs on the micDROP Dec 2019 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author bucolic_frolic Dec 2019 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author sl8 Dec 2019 #11
Oh, ok. I get it. My mistake. bucolic_frolic Dec 2019 #12
Why Patents Are Useless OxQQme Dec 2019 #14
this is a good explanation of why most patents are not worth it for the small guy certainot Dec 2019 #17
fantastic. another way he can make bucks without a patent is after someone else starts manufacturing certainot Dec 2019 #18
Listen, when the Trumpkins or the next dick taters followers come to your town... Ligyron Dec 2019 #20

rwsanders

(2,603 posts)
1. I think when Diggle took over as Green Arrow, he was using a similar device. Someone on the show
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 12:45 AM
Dec 2019

must have seen this.
Brilliant and it will gain some following, but like sailing, some folks are in the sport for the tradition.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
10. Correct, it is just a sport and 95% or more just hit at non-live static targets
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 09:50 AM
Dec 2019

The one thing he doesn't explain in the video is how to change the cartridge.

 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
9. I would venture to think that 95% of the people, if not more who use bow & arrows
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 09:49 AM
Dec 2019

use it for target practice, competition, and fun without ever killing anything. I know because I do it, and all the people I know who do it are in competitions shooting at targets, I don't know any who hunt, they are all shooting at static targets.

I understand this has a bigger potential, as a weapon, than regular bow&arrow, but I would doubt anyone who wants to do harm would change an AK-45 for a 6-arrow capacity weapon.

When was the last time anyone heard of someone killing a person with a bow & arrow? The last time I heard that was that crazy veterinarian who killed her neighbour's cat.

Julian English

(434 posts)
13. I've actually know of several homicides involving bows & arrows
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 01:53 PM
Dec 2019

One of them involved a guy who was turned for sale of a gun.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
16. ever been to the cody wyo gun museum? that's an incredible monument to wasted creativity,
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 06:59 PM
Dec 2019

craftmanship, art, manufacturing, and engineering - all for killing things, for imposing certainty

i suppose it would stimulate advances in materials sciences and manufacture

rwsanders

(2,603 posts)
19. I always tell my kids that there is no limit to the creativity or expense people will go to to kill
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 07:54 PM
Dec 2019

one another.
I was considering what it took to get in a fight in the days of ancient Greece. Heck there was less than a billion people world wide, you had to pack things up, leave home for a while, march for days just to pick a fight with someone else. What a strange compulsion.

cstanleytech

(26,291 posts)
21. Far less than a gun and the draw I suspect is probably lower power than a traditional arrow would be
Mon Dec 2, 2019, 04:36 AM
Dec 2019

if it does not have the same drawing power.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,491 posts)
3. This German dude is having more fun than should be legal, LOL.
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 02:46 AM
Dec 2019

I enjoy watching good craftsmen of any sort doing well and enjoying their craft.

From his YouTube channel, it appears he's in Essen, Germany.

For anyone wanting to see the items he's now producing, this is his website with all sorts of slingshots and mechanized bows:

Link: https://gogun.de/

KY.......

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certainot

(9,090 posts)
18. fantastic. another way he can make bucks without a patent is after someone else starts manufacturing
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 07:09 PM
Dec 2019

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them he can make hand made high end versions, made in USA, especially if a chinese or US company takes the idea and leaves him out

Ligyron

(7,632 posts)
20. Listen, when the Trumpkins or the next dick taters followers come to your town...
Sun Dec 1, 2019, 08:17 PM
Dec 2019

Looking for "libruls" to string up, I'm going to be a lot happier and my family safer than a lot of high minded, oh so principled dead people strung up in the city square.

That "we take the high road" attitude put Trump in office. I absolutely LOVE the Obama's, but nobody can be right all the time, and certainly not me. But, unfortunate as it is, I'm betting my life I'm right on this one

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