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[SirTofu]

After months of tweaking and testing, I have finally turned my xbow into a machine. This will give people an alternative to your standard micro breech mod, which did not work so hot for me. I personally use micros, except for this gun. The xbow is quite accurate with megas.
I named my gun singapore, or for short singy ( pronounced sing-ghee).

Now onto the mod:

I cut a 5" piece of pvc and after putting it into the coupler, wrapped it in e-tape.



I hotglued my coupler onto the plunger, marine-epoxied it (marine epoxy is pretty strong), and e-taped it.


Now, after that I had a killing machine. However, I like ammoholders and despise fumbling through my pockets.
So I made an ammo holder of pieces of pvc hotglued onto fabric with velcro straps. Holds twenty megas:



Here's what singy looks like:







And, if you want to know my ranges, with a good dart I can get 75-80+ and angled 90-100+.

Edited by SirTofu, 05 June 2006 - 04:10 PM.

[Bungee950]

Wow! I want to make an ammo holder like that for my guns! I'd hate to turn the corner and see that pointed at me.

[Forsaken angel24]

Is it just the pic or is that barrel crooked?

[SirTofu]

Forsaken_angel24, on Jun 5 2006, 05:38 PM, said:

Is it just the pic or is that barrel crooked?

The barrel shoots straight, so I think its the pic...

ahh crap, I placed the coupler in wrong. Thanks for pointing that out. It's still accurate, but now it will be better.

Edited by SirTofu, 05 June 2006 - 09:32 PM.

[Black Blade]

I might actually do this to my X-bow but don't you think the barrel is alittle short?

[SirTofu]

Black Blade, on Jun 5 2006, 06:51 PM, said:

I might actually do this to my X-bow but don't you think the barrel is alittle short?

For megas, you want a short barrel.
I experimented with 4 types of barrels: the 5" one, a 7" one, and two much shorter ones. The 5" works perfectly with megas and the other ones lose range.

[Falcon]

I'm not sure exactly what causes it, but most modded crossbows have barrels that tend to one side. Still, mine fires straight and deadly accurate regardless of the slight off-centered-ness of the barrel. Granted, I've fixed the problem (taped a flat wad of e-tape to the side of my coupler, and it pushes the barrel over slightly, lining it up perfectly) but I don't really notice any change in performance.

Nicely done, and good job recognizing the need for a not-so-long barrel. It bugs me when I see all these crossbow mods out there with barrels that are like ten feet long (slight exaggeration.)

Looks pretty clean. Keep it up!

[TimberwolfCY]

Yes, the ammo holders look badass, not to mention functional. Makes me wish I had done that to my Crossbow.

Pretty cool seeing a Crossbow that shoots megas, bet they sting when they hit, lol.

[SirTofu]

TimberwolfCY, on Jun 6 2006, 05:13 PM, said:

Yes, the ammo holders look badass, not to mention functional. Makes me wish I had done that to my Crossbow.

Pretty cool seeing a Crossbow that shoots megas, bet they sting when they hit, lol.

thanks for the compliments guys. I tried my crossbow with micros, but the megas add a bit more punch and are more accurate. The ammo hyolders quite nice and functional, as well.

[Jergling]

The more of these awsome xbow mods i see, the more i wish I had cared about nerf when I was younger...