Author Topic: So, whats your arsenal? (Read 3604 times)

Goomba · « **Reply #60 on:** May 19, 2006, 08:22:40 AM »

My toy closet is small, but eccentric...

Moderns:

Browning (FAL) Hi-Power 9mm
Ruger 10/22
Marlin 12ga pump
Browning Citori GTI, 12 ga, extended chokes, fitted stock
Thompson-Center Contender w/ 14" .44 mag bull barrel
Ruger Super Blackhawk, .44 mag
Dan Wesson, cased, 4 interchangeable barrels, .38 cal

Reproductions:

Pepperbox 38 cal
Percussion pistol .45 cal
Thompson-Center Hawken flintlock .50 cal

Off the Wall Stuff:

Handmade Mongol Horsebow, plus one dozen self-made stone-tipped arrows, and one dozen self-made iron-tipped arrows. Knapped the stone points myself, bought the reproduction iron heads.

Hand-and-a-half bastard sword, @ 4' overall, with orangewood grip and cast brass hardware

Hand-forged Falchion

1918 French Bayonet

8' leaf-bladed spear

...and one 2" caliber potato cannon!

Brenjen · « **Reply #61 on:** May 19, 2006, 08:27:16 AM »

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Standing 150yrds apart i was able to drop an arrow at the feet of a friend who was unable to hit me from the same range with a .177 air rifle when we did some tests a few years back.

I hope that doesn't surprise anyone lol...btw, putting some animal sinew on the back the bow will add to it's power. As the bow is drawn it stretches the sinew which stores some of the energy of the pull. The romans used this technique I'm not sure who else might have.

I have a friend who likes to pressure flake his own arrowheads but he hasn't attained the skill level needed to fabricate his own bow or arrows yet. I know he would talk your ear off if he had a chance.

Goomba · « **Reply #62 on:** May 19, 2006, 11:46:22 AM »

Bat,

You and a friend actually SHOT at each other? You stood still and let another guy take aim and fire at you? Your friend stood still while you drew a bow on him and let fly?

I'm a little amazed, but really just curious.

storch · « **Reply #63 on:** May 19, 2006, 01:36:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Goomba
Bat,

You and a friend actually SHOT at each other? You stood still and let another guy take aim and fire at you? Your friend stood still while you drew a bow on him and let fly?

I'm a little amazed, but really just curious.

we used to shoot each other with one pump for our bejamin and sheridan pelletguns, with wrist rockets, bows and arrows and ultimately shotguns with the shot replaced by modelling clay. sadly we grew up before the advent of the paintball gun and it was the only way to realistically play army or cowboys and indians. kids today are far too soft.

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #64 on:** May 19, 2006, 02:18:14 PM »

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Originally posted by storch
we used to shoot each other with one pump for our bejamin and sheridan pelletguns, with wrist rockets, bows and arrows and ultimately shotguns with the shot replaced by modelling clay. sadly we grew up before the advent of the paintball gun and it was the only way to realistically play army or cowboys and indians. kids today are far too soft.

Hehe, yep I did the same thing. Crossman multi-pump airguns with just one pump and loaded with BBs. If you wanted any real distance you had to learn some trajectory. If it hit it might raise a little blood blister from the sting of the impact, but thats about it. Once while trying to capture a barn from a team of guys with such rifles we accidentally shot out the glass from the screen door. Ooops.

I've still got some pucker marks on my back where I got hit by a shotshell loaded with rock salt. Jeeze that burned. I thought I was gonna die. Had a good laugh about it later though. Safety police would have a cow nowdays.

lazs2 · « **Reply #65 on:** May 19, 2006, 02:25:24 PM »

didn't they make it illegal for subjects to own bows a bunch of centuries ago so that they couldn't poach in the kings forrest or incite insurection?

lazs

Hangtime · « **Reply #66 on:** May 19, 2006, 02:29:40 PM »

That was the french at againcourt. they make it known that after they won the battle the english would be never again allowed to own a bow and that their middle fingers would be cut off to make it impossible for them to ever again employ a longbow. the french lost.

which lead to the famous middle finger salute, for centuries; the appropriate salute of an englishman to a frenchman.

indy007 · « **Reply #67 on:** May 19, 2006, 02:46:52 PM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
That was the french at againcourt. they make it known that after they won the battle the english would be never again allowed to own a bow and that their middle fingers would be cut off to make it impossible for them to ever again employ a longbow. the french lost.

which lead to the famous middle finger salute, for centuries; the appropriate salute of an englishman to a frenchman.

hey, pluck you buddy!

B@tfinkV · « **Reply #68 on:** May 19, 2006, 07:13:52 PM »

heh.... i was pretty confident the worst the pelet gun would do from 150 yrds is make me itch a little, likewise, should the arrow have been dead on target my friend would have the good sense to move. at those ranges you have time to watch the arrow be fired at 45 degrees up, light a smoke, and then move out the way as it comes back down.

animal guts sound like a good method, but i dont fancy butchering a couple of bunny rabbits just for thier stringy bits, or at the most a small meal.

edit: oh also, Lazs, you're almost correct. should i be seen walking down the street with the bow strung i would be arrested, and possesion of a homemade weapon and/or projectiles of any kind in public would result in alot of attention from the law, if not prosecusion.

freakin *****whipped government.

ya know, at a swimming pool in France, the water slide was 30 ft tall.

the ladder up and platform had no saftey rails and the french kids would go up running and dive down the slide.

in England that pool would be closed down even before the accident happened.

Darwin is being overruled in my country at least.

Pooface · « **Reply #69 on:** May 19, 2006, 07:28:46 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
didn't they make it illegal for subjects to own bows a bunch of centuries ago so that they couldn't poach in the kings forrest or incite insurection?

lazs

on the contrary, it was illegal to do anything on a sunday except archery and going to church. apparently 40% of the whole population around then were battle trained in archery:eek:

and hangtime, yeah, the middle finger and the index finger held up, you usually wave it while chanting something too lol

Pooface · « **Reply #70 on:** May 19, 2006, 07:43:44 PM »

made a longbow with my grandpa once (he has a massive yew tree in his garden and they were trimming it down)

read up on the net about it first, and you basically take the branch, and cut a section from the outside, making sure that you get the core and the outer wood, one resists compression and the other is quite elastic. we didnt dry it out for ages or anything, and we didnt pay too much attention to it, it was really just something fun for a day or two, so it wasnt fantastic quality, but even so, the thing was bloody powerful! put an arrow, basically just a sharpened stick with very basic flights right into another tree trunk. cant imagine what it would do to a person.

always great fun making weapons:D

lazs2 · « **Reply #71 on:** May 20, 2006, 09:39:27 AM »

I have no doubt that the english kings allowed themselves and their armies bows... I was talking about their subjects.

lazs

Curval · « **Reply #72 on:** May 20, 2006, 09:44:27 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
I have no doubt that the english kings allowed themselves and their armies bows... I was talking about their subjects.

lazs

Isn't there a rule about posting trolls here....oh wait, they don't seem to apply to lazs. Carry on.

lazs2 · « **Reply #73 on:** May 20, 2006, 10:05:02 AM »

so bows were never banned in england? Must be thinking of robin hood or something... Maybe that Swiss guy.....

lazs

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #74 on:** May 20, 2006, 06:29:42 PM »

Ruger P345
Zastava M59/66