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[willtruncheon]

Some of you may be familiar with the "boffer" weapons used at many live action role-playing games. For the uninitiated, these are usually toy melee weapons made from a core of PVC or carbon fiber, surrounded by pipe foam insulation and covered with duct tape, kite tape, or painted latex. The idea is to create something that is reminiscent of an actual sword, axe, club, etc. that is safe to strike someone with in "lightest touch" combat. People have been doing this for decades, and although I have seen many breathtaking examples of well-made boffer weapons, I've never seen one that integrated a nerf blaster. This seemed to me like the time to try.

In the 17th-19th centuries, it was popular to combine a compact pistol or derringer with a cutlass, walking stick, or even a warhammer. This is my attempt to do so for larp combat.



The melee portion is carbon-fiber kite rod surrounded by a foam pool noodle, cut to shape with a hot wire. The striking surface at the head is soft, spongy open-cell foam. I integrated a heavily minimized NF tube and activation mechanism to the core of the weapon, using steel wire, epoxy, and layers of trimmed pvc.



The blaster is coaxial to the shaft of the weapon, and fired by depressing the orange thumb-stud trigger at the hilt. The thumb falls quite naturally in line with the trigger when the weapon is held in a saber grip. The tube is cocked by pulling back on the beaded lanyard.



The barrel of the NF is deeply recessed into a foam sheath that prevents the hard plastic from coming in contact with any fleshy bits while you bludgeon someone. I have used this at games in the past to great effect, being able to reach around a shield, shoot at point-blank range, and still keep fighting.



I hope to try and do something similar soon, using a Recon and a halberd.

[orion777]

Nice mod, I'll have to try and do some thing like this. Also YAY first post, thank you cxwq.

[PointBlank]

Ive done some fighting with these, I've considered turning a sword into a blow gun, but I love how you actually integrated a blaster into one.

[Pearson2]

Now this is cool. It looks awesome plus it looks like it would be a lot of fun to yield at a war. Well done.

[Renegademilitia15]

So its like a gun.........axe...

That's pretty groovy.

[bobbybilly60]

I would love to see someone shot with that. It eliminates the use of shields.

[Jaymel1989]

Awesome rushing weapon. Rather than shoot them from up close you could wack them with it. Cool mod nonetheless. I would love to see a warhammer with a gun integrated. That would be cool

[Pearson2]

Oh oh and if you "barrel tap" anyone and they say "Is your barrel loaded?" You can say "Are you serious? I just hit you with an axe."

[nerfdude123]

Nice mod, similar to boom13's gunblade, well in the sense of combinding melee and range weapons into one.

[DrSpaceman]

Now, I usually don't like getting barrel tapped but I want to get barrel tapped by this axe.

[Mukersman]

Now, I usually don't like getting barrel tapped but I want to get barrel tapped by this axe.

I think DrSpaceman here has an unusual fetish for your axe, hit him extra hard, he likes it!

[ilzot]

Looks like the Lancer just got beaten as the greatest barrel-tapping weapon to date.

Not really. But awesome job. That's the exact type of weapon I'd love to use. After I get shot and lose my last life, I can just whack them to take out my anger >:-D (Just kidding.)