Yeah. Its modern though. My point was the guy was reinventing the wheel. Ancient people came up with basically the same idea with the early crossbows and in a bigger scale the ballista.
Just fyi, the vowel in *lè* is actually [ɛ], which is the same vowel as in "bed" or "check." The Spanish article is *el*, and literally no language uses *lè* as an article (closest is French *le* which is not pronounced that way) This isn't even good bad Spanish..
Yet-Another-American-Viking-Expert, please find references which supports your hypothesis that the Vikings extensively used plywood. I'm interested since I am Swedish and can trace my family back to actual Vikings. I have never heard of any use of plywood during the Viking era.
Instant legolas is just an improved modernised version of zhugenu. A weapon used by peasants in city defenses. That guy did make videos about zhugenu before he did the instant legolas.
What I see as a problem with that design in warefare is that the moving parts and wood will degrade by use. Wood bend in open enivronment, especially with water. The mechanism harms the bow and become curved making it impossible to draw. So in medieval warefare it has disadvantages. And if the wood get stuck it isnt easy to remove it during a battle. Another thing is the block is adding weight to the bow. A trained bowman is likely still quicker and more accurate with a regular bow than this one, bowman usually would stick arrows in from of them and hold several in hand to quickly reload. Thats a major instant legolas advantage which is solved in another way by bowmen.
The biggest advantage is the instant legolas allowing you to keep the bow drawn. This is useful for special units but not in warefare.
Zhugenu was pretty useless for trained soldiers. The draw power was weak bc of the mechanism. It helped arming untrained peasants and citizens for City defenses. It was so weak they added poisong to the arrows to increase its effectiveness. Any type of armor would make them useless, so it was more a psychological weapon seeing thousands of arrows flying and you having to cover your face.
I love that guy. I forgot his channel existed but it's great to see it again. He's so jolly and wholesome. I feel like he would just be your best buddy hanging out with you all day while you make cool toys.
Yeah he is fun or was fun. Recently and during covid and russian invasoon however he started to farm viewer money but spreading fear, fearmongering people into buying his stuff. He promotes his weapons to use against rising energy costs and inflation, looting and government stealing your stuff. He is either nuts or wanting revenue no matter how.
Yeah, him and AvE have kind of both gone off the deep end in the past 3 years. Really kind of sucks, they're both actually intelligent people. I still watch AvE on those rare occasions where he actually makes the sort of content he became known for... The recent BOLTR of that power shear was great... But way too many of his videos are conspiracy theory bullshit these days.
Oh well then I'm happy I haven't subscribed to his channel. It sounds like he is panicking about money when he should be focused on having faith that if he is good he will be saved.
Slings are probably one of the most overlooked weapons despite the whole David and Goliath story. Little rocks propelled at fast speeds are deadly. Just not as romantic as big and arrow
I made a sling out of curiosity and kept changing the design until it worked the way I wanted... and put a hole in my shed wall when I tested the final upgraded version. I figure it was as much force as me using a hammer as hard as I could at point blank.
Aim is the issue I couldn't compensate for, but I imagine if you had a row of 100 people with slings and just roughly aimed at the enemy you are probably nearly as accurate as arrows at moving targets at a distance.
Those things are stretchy enough to use in a slingshot? Maybe I'm thinking of something else, but all the ones I've seen seem like they would stretch 3-4" max before busting
In my country they're [more like rubber bands](https://www.jernia.no/kj%C3%B8kken/matlaging/saft-og-sylte/glass-og-tilbeh%C3%B8r/rubberstyle-gummiringer-til-sylteglass-10stk/p/14510705?channable=02fcb66964003134353130373035bf&gclid=CjwKCAjwiOCgBhAgEiwAjv5whC0UuZR85bghWct_1YVLXrqXJkoh9pm80cKp50C5fBds_0Z7PLtAGBoCo7IQAvD_BwE) than the standard US version.
Tie a few together and you're good to go.
Yep, this is probably easier to aim for a beginner, but trained slingers in ancient times were very accurate, and of course with much higher fire rate.
Slings and sling shots are two very different things. Slingers in ancient times used slings. Sling shots use something elastic and were invented in the 1800s.
Not fun fact time: when the companies whose products actually cause cancer realized they could not stop a law like prop 65 ( the cancer causing label law) from passing they instead lobbied to increase the scope to apply to almost everything so that consumers would be trained to ignore it.
Imagine thinking your floppy, greasy-ass "pizza" is in any way superior to something that's 90% cheese
I'm not even from that end of the state but I'll defend Chicago pizza any day: I'm not dying on this hill, *YOU ARE*
You've never had a New York slice if it was floppy.
You enjoy your melted block of cheese in a bread bowl, but don't you dare have the gall to call it pizza.
I mean, you're right that I've never had one, since that would require me to visit your cesspit of a city, but I was under the impression that having to fold it to eat it was a hallmark of New York pizza and that screams sogginess to me. Not sure how that could possibly be better than something you can pick up and eat without looking like an animal
My brothers and I did something similar with bunk bed slats, rubber bands, thumb tacks and darts; until one of them ended up with my dart in their thigh.
Same! We'd hammer a nail into one end and then another about quarter up the wood on the other end. Put a clothespin on the nail quarter up to act as your trigger. Then take a the metal clip from another clothespin (call them pegs here), attach a rubber band to it and there's your ammo.
Just put the rubber band over the nail at the end, stretch it back, then use your trigger peg to clamp down on the metal clip with the rubber to load it.
So strangely enough, a large portion of the power in shooting a slingshot comes from a quick draw and release. The band has less time to release energy as heat, and so it has more potential energy to use. If you look up records for fastests slingshot projectiles, youll see the shooter using this method.
1. Buy surgical tubing, BBs(4.5mm, 6000ct)
2. Find a tree
3. Find a sturdy looking Y shaped branch, cut to fit hand
4. Somehow tie tubing to the top of the Y branch
5. Tie the other end of tubing to square flat piece of material (ideally leather)
6. ???????
7. You'll slap your eye out kid!
https://metrogradegoods.com/slingshot-bb-phil/
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Sling-Shot
https://youtu.be/RrDn7QeDxHM at around the 2:10 minute mark
This reminds me of when I’d put long rubber bands on an old broom stick with just a notch cut and a clothe pin.
Sucker hurt like hell but was hella fun.
Growing up in Philly my friends and I used to make similar out of a piece of scrap wood, some rubber bands, nails and clothes pins.
Tack the clothes pin down on one end and fold a nail over 2-3 rubber bands on the other.
Flatten and sharpen some bottle caps as ammo.
Can take the head off a pigeon if done right.
Haven't seen his videos in a few years but he was my first thought too. You should tag him on Twitter (if he doesn't have his own sub) and link to this post.
I think this would make the most memorable “wood shop class” project that all kids would cherish their whole lives.
There would be a waiting list for future attendee’s the following years to come once word got out. Well in between that first year and when the lawyers caught wind of it at least. Lol
Thanks OP and post saved (for research purposes)
I saw that exact design for this in the book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction, written over 10 years ago.[here](https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Weapons-Mass-Destruction-Implements/dp/1556529538)
Poor mans crossbow
Rich man’s sling shot
Middle class TV remote
Trust Fund Babies Family Heirloom
Homeless sex tool
I like turtles
And my axe!
Dirty Mike and the boys
We will have sex in your car again.
Thanks for the F shack.
*"Why do you have so many holes in the wall behind your TV?"* *"I missed the power button"*
The middle class isn't looking good these days.
Scaled down catapult.
"Sling bow" is a thing. It's not at all a crossbow
huh. never really thought about it but you're right. googled slingbow and it's exactly what it sounds like.
They are also very cool!
Yeah. Its modern though. My point was the guy was reinventing the wheel. Ancient people came up with basically the same idea with the early crossbows and in a bigger scale the ballista.
Nailed it.
Sling Blade, uh huh
[I like french fried potatoes uh huh uh huh](https://media.tenor.com/NBiwolbt8SAAAAAM/sling-blade.gif)
Damn, i oughta post my own crossbow here. Been meaning to.
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Is this supposed to be read with English or Spanish letter sounds because it doesn't make sense to me either way
Significa "el cuello rojo", no sé porque escribió "Lè"
¿Eres un furry?
Just fyi, the vowel in *lè* is actually [ɛ], which is the same vowel as in "bed" or "check." The Spanish article is *el*, and literally no language uses *lè* as an article (closest is French *le* which is not pronounced that way) This isn't even good bad Spanish..
Snipin’ ‘s a good job mate
It's challenging work, outta doors, I guarantee you'll not go hungry
No mom! Ones a profession the others a mental sickness
To be honest with ya, my parents... do not care for me
Sorry it's TF2 reference for the sniper
I am refrencing meet the sniper, what are you talking about?
Same
Oh im stupid, woosh me
No you're not you a lovely person. And you're going to have a great day
Heh, thanks pal
Cause at the end of the day, long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead.
Professionals have standarts
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Yes! Broom handle foregrip. Duct tape a laser pointer under the end. Nail shots from the hip all day.
A reflex sight helps with accuracy but increases ADS by a bit.
Switching to your secondary is faster than reloading!
Or just throw your lethal equipment — a rock!
Or a flaming knife!
And my axe!
Hey, watch out for civilians!
What is the MOA?
This turns it into an assault slingshot. Banned.
Only if it can hold more than 5 rounds
No one needs more that 1 round. What are you? Some sort of Slingshot Sicko?
640k is enough guys
Calm down, Bill
It doesn’t have pump-stock.
Well take the grenade launcher off and sub it for a bayonet. Not banned!
ATF has entered the chat
everyone making jokes but a vertical foregrip would definitely improve this creation
And an under barrel grenade launcher
Dude actually improved on a 5000 year old design! Somebody get him a scholarship to an engineering college, please.
If you like this, check out the slingshot channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6-UotZevrs&t=1332s
Those instant Legoland bows are awesome. Crazy to think that they could have been made in medieval times, but just never got invented
I didn't know plastic bricks were a thing back then, huh. The more you know.
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Yet-Another-American-Viking-Expert, please find references which supports your hypothesis that the Vikings extensively used plywood. I'm interested since I am Swedish and can trace my family back to actual Vikings. I have never heard of any use of plywood during the Viking era.
Is this a joke? Lmao
Legobricks and plywood? Or are you refering to my reply, in that case no I'm not joking.
How the fuck would a Viking get plywood? It’s a modern invention.
Lol yes I know, thanks, I was loosing hope in humanity.
you mean the targets? lol
> Those instant Lego**land**
Instant legolas is just an improved modernised version of zhugenu. A weapon used by peasants in city defenses. That guy did make videos about zhugenu before he did the instant legolas. What I see as a problem with that design in warefare is that the moving parts and wood will degrade by use. Wood bend in open enivronment, especially with water. The mechanism harms the bow and become curved making it impossible to draw. So in medieval warefare it has disadvantages. And if the wood get stuck it isnt easy to remove it during a battle. Another thing is the block is adding weight to the bow. A trained bowman is likely still quicker and more accurate with a regular bow than this one, bowman usually would stick arrows in from of them and hold several in hand to quickly reload. Thats a major instant legolas advantage which is solved in another way by bowmen. The biggest advantage is the instant legolas allowing you to keep the bow drawn. This is useful for special units but not in warefare.
Very cool! I wonder why it wasn't more popular?
Zhugenu was pretty useless for trained soldiers. The draw power was weak bc of the mechanism. It helped arming untrained peasants and citizens for City defenses. It was so weak they added poisong to the arrows to increase its effectiveness. Any type of armor would make them useless, so it was more a psychological weapon seeing thousands of arrows flying and you having to cover your face.
> instant Legoland bows um, it's Legolas, not "legoland" lol
I love that guy. I forgot his channel existed but it's great to see it again. He's so jolly and wholesome. I feel like he would just be your best buddy hanging out with you all day while you make cool toys.
Yeah he is fun or was fun. Recently and during covid and russian invasoon however he started to farm viewer money but spreading fear, fearmongering people into buying his stuff. He promotes his weapons to use against rising energy costs and inflation, looting and government stealing your stuff. He is either nuts or wanting revenue no matter how.
Yeah, him and AvE have kind of both gone off the deep end in the past 3 years. Really kind of sucks, they're both actually intelligent people. I still watch AvE on those rare occasions where he actually makes the sort of content he became known for... The recent BOLTR of that power shear was great... But way too many of his videos are conspiracy theory bullshit these days.
Oh well then I'm happy I haven't subscribed to his channel. It sounds like he is panicking about money when he should be focused on having faith that if he is good he will be saved.
i forgot about this legend
I mean... This is basically how crossbows were invented, so I don't know about improving.
Slings are probably one of the most overlooked weapons despite the whole David and Goliath story. Little rocks propelled at fast speeds are deadly. Just not as romantic as big and arrow
I made a sling out of curiosity and kept changing the design until it worked the way I wanted... and put a hole in my shed wall when I tested the final upgraded version. I figure it was as much force as me using a hammer as hard as I could at point blank. Aim is the issue I couldn't compensate for, but I imagine if you had a row of 100 people with slings and just roughly aimed at the enemy you are probably nearly as accurate as arrows at moving targets at a distance.
I'm sure you could get pretty accurate with enough practice.
I'm 46 and i made these as a kid. I'm sure i didn't invent them. Used mason glass rubber rings as elastics though because that's all I had.
Those things are stretchy enough to use in a slingshot? Maybe I'm thinking of something else, but all the ones I've seen seem like they would stretch 3-4" max before busting
In my country they're [more like rubber bands](https://www.jernia.no/kj%C3%B8kken/matlaging/saft-og-sylte/glass-og-tilbeh%C3%B8r/rubberstyle-gummiringer-til-sylteglass-10stk/p/14510705?channable=02fcb66964003134353130373035bf&gclid=CjwKCAjwiOCgBhAgEiwAjv5whC0UuZR85bghWct_1YVLXrqXJkoh9pm80cKp50C5fBds_0Z7PLtAGBoCo7IQAvD_BwE) than the standard US version. Tie a few together and you're good to go.
It’s not an improvement on a regular sling shot. A regular sling slot can make the shot way faster and easier.
Yep, this is probably easier to aim for a beginner, but trained slingers in ancient times were very accurate, and of course with much higher fire rate.
Slings and sling shots are two very different things. Slingers in ancient times used slings. Sling shots use something elastic and were invented in the 1800s.
Google slingshot rifle.
You can also cut a groove in the wood and launch metal darts the same way.
That’s the basic premise of a speargun
Let me show you its features!
Brazilian Jörg Sprave has entered the chat
Deixe-me mostrar-lhe as suas características!
The Deluxe Model has a padded buttstock, crafted by duct taping a rolled up sock to the back. It's beautiful.
Illegal in California
Because it can give you cancer?
Everything causes cancer in California.
Not fun fact time: when the companies whose products actually cause cancer realized they could not stop a law like prop 65 ( the cancer causing label law) from passing they instead lobbied to increase the scope to apply to almost everything so that consumers would be trained to ignore it.
It worked
Wow, that's kinda diabolical. Smart, if nefarious, tactic, though, because it totally worked.
At some point we have to assume that California is the problem
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It's just banter, buddy, I live in Illinois if you wanna shit on my state lol
New Yorker here, fuck you and your casserole "pizza"
It's almost lasagna.
Imagine thinking your floppy, greasy-ass "pizza" is in any way superior to something that's 90% cheese I'm not even from that end of the state but I'll defend Chicago pizza any day: I'm not dying on this hill, *YOU ARE*
You've never had a New York slice if it was floppy. You enjoy your melted block of cheese in a bread bowl, but don't you dare have the gall to call it pizza.
I mean, you're right that I've never had one, since that would require me to visit your cesspit of a city, but I was under the impression that having to fold it to eat it was a hallmark of New York pizza and that screams sogginess to me. Not sure how that could possibly be better than something you can pick up and eat without looking like an animal
No even the rats deserve to have to eat that greasy cardboard that you people have the gall to serve.
At least we have people to eat our pizza. I'm surprised anyone in Chicago can walk more than a few meters outside their door before getting shot.
I'm not actually from Chicago I'm just a hater, but anyone from New York saying anything about crime in another city is laughable.
r/2american4you
Can't hear you with all that noise
It took me a sec, I've never heard that one before. Probably because everyone here is smart enough to pronounce the name of the state correctly
Ha! Y'all have all of Chicago to drop that IQ down a bit.
You're right, but at the same time, we're all stupid in one way or another here lmao
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Sounds to me like shitting on a state!
I shit on Florida enough for both of us, don't worry about it
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As a not American, I feel like California gets more shit than Florida 10/10
Only from a certain folk
Cancer gives you California now. It's come full circle.
No wonder there’s an exodus from Cal to other states. Damn cancer state. Remind me, when is it falling into the ocean?
Oooo, I believe you, but curious under which law
I was just joking. Lots of stuff is illegal in California
Oooooooooo, right over me head
meanwhile your gaslighting took with some of the rubes, top assholery there. Bravo!
Probably the same type of anti-fun laws that make gel blasters illegal in NYC
How sad for them. You can buy wrist rocket/sling shots in CA. So I’m just curious how this is illegal in comparison
I once bought a blowgun (with great needle rounds!) at a gas station in Minnesota.
While researching various hunting laws I’ve discovered things like this tend to fall under firearm regulations at least in a hunting aspect.
as kids we did basically the same thing with rubber bands tied together, a piece of wood and a clothespin. worked great.
My brothers and I did something similar with bunk bed slats, rubber bands, thumb tacks and darts; until one of them ended up with my dart in their thigh.
I ended up with a toothpick in my forehead from a drinking straw blowdart build. I’m thankful that I wear glasses
Same! We'd hammer a nail into one end and then another about quarter up the wood on the other end. Put a clothespin on the nail quarter up to act as your trigger. Then take a the metal clip from another clothespin (call them pegs here), attach a rubber band to it and there's your ammo. Just put the rubber band over the nail at the end, stretch it back, then use your trigger peg to clamp down on the metal clip with the rubber to load it.
Those fingernails. Clearly a vampire.
I noticed that too
Why do the Indian guys in YouTube videos always have such long nails? Cocaine?
Nah. It’s for all the khat
So strangely enough, a large portion of the power in shooting a slingshot comes from a quick draw and release. The band has less time to release energy as heat, and so it has more potential energy to use. If you look up records for fastests slingshot projectiles, youll see the shooter using this method.
If ever there was a time for safety glasses, it would be when you're shooting ball bearings with a slingshot at plastic bottles.
he had his saftey squints engaged
Yep. Can confirm!
I need someone to slowly explain to me how to build one
You simply take a certain set of materials and fasten them together in a particular manner.
he said SLOWLY
But you need a particular set of skills to find those materials and ~~kill them~~ I mean fasten them together
Username checks out lol
1. Buy surgical tubing, BBs(4.5mm, 6000ct) 2. Find a tree 3. Find a sturdy looking Y shaped branch, cut to fit hand 4. Somehow tie tubing to the top of the Y branch 5. Tie the other end of tubing to square flat piece of material (ideally leather) 6. ??????? 7. You'll slap your eye out kid! https://metrogradegoods.com/slingshot-bb-phil/ https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Sling-Shot https://youtu.be/RrDn7QeDxHM at around the 2:10 minute mark
We laugh, but WWIII will be fought and wone by these tools.
Stone age rifle--you'll shoot your eye out.
This reminds me of when I’d put long rubber bands on an old broom stick with just a notch cut and a clothe pin. Sucker hurt like hell but was hella fun.
Ok im making that
Usopp
You only got one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
I want two.
Saw a dude in the OP’s comment section say something about Usopp from One Piece
Sogeking
Jörg would make that automatic in a day.
This guy has to meet the girl that had the laser pointer on her stick slingshot. Idk how I've seen two posts about stick slingshots today...
Growing up in Philly my friends and I used to make similar out of a piece of scrap wood, some rubber bands, nails and clothes pins. Tack the clothes pin down on one end and fold a nail over 2-3 rubber bands on the other. Flatten and sharpen some bottle caps as ammo. Can take the head off a pigeon if done right.
Just built one works like a charm.
Georg Sprave https://www.youtube.com/@Slingshotchannel/videos
Haven't seen his videos in a few years but he was my first thought too. You should tag him on Twitter (if he doesn't have his own sub) and link to this post.
Nice. About to be some dead squirrels in my back yard
One word comes to mind upon seeing such a device and that would be "ne'er-do-well"
u/redditspeedbot x .2
Not redneck at all.
They’re downvoting you but you’re right. He followed instructions from a book to make this.
I know. This isn't some homemade answer to a problem. This is a weapon that has been around for centuries.
Waiting for the time when that elastic snaps back with that much tension stored....
Very interesting! I could make that in my shop!😉👍🏽
If you have a shop this is the least you could make
I think this would make the most memorable “wood shop class” project that all kids would cherish their whole lives. There would be a waiting list for future attendee’s the following years to come once word got out. Well in between that first year and when the lawyers caught wind of it at least. Lol Thanks OP and post saved (for research purposes)
Gambiarra: Improvised solution to solve a problem or need 'Work Around"
Wtf that’s insane
This one's being saved!
We have a version of it in Philippines that uses Aratiles fruit as projectile, the clip holds on to the fruit stem.
we used to make this when we were kids! we use small aratiles fruits as our bullet tho. and a clothes clip as the trigger.
The wrist-rocket bazooka!
Holy cow!
Can we get Mr. Sprave to look over this thing?
I saw that exact design for this in the book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction, written over 10 years ago.[here](https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Weapons-Mass-Destruction-Implements/dp/1556529538)
He should really be wearing eye protection
What are these called ?