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[fdsman]

Hello ,Everyone!

I have come before you to ask you if it is possible to mod the mavrick as follows:

1. increase the range and accuracy by equiping it with a longer barrel*, and folding OR retracting stock.

2.Increase the rate of fire by adding a folding OR retracting stock and by any means put a device on it that would make it semi-automatic.

Stock Idea Picture:


Thank you,
fdsman


*By longer barrel, I mean simply attach a pvc pipe small enough to still fit and stay put inside the already existing barrel ( The orange thingy if anyone is clueless.).

Edited by fdsman, 25 June 2006 - 12:27 AM.

[ompa]

1.) Possible mod to use longer barrels. Shoulder guard, just use PVC. You don't need a scope on a nerf gun, unless you have perfect darts that are immune to wind, and your gun shoots over 200' with perfect accuracy.

2.) Semi auto? Not without either an airtank or a motor. Basically, good luck. Nobody has really made a semi-auto gun yet, except for Boltsniper's prototype, which ended up blowing itself to pieces.

Do use the search function next time you have a question though. Then if you can't find an answer, go ahead and post.

Enjoy your stay at NH.

~ompa

[pinhead52]

He didn't really touch on this, but if you look at how the Mav is put together, you can't lengthen the barrels. If you did, they wouldn't fit into the gun, and if you took off the front of the gun, the cylinder wouldn't have any support. It basically breaks down into this; If you come up with something nobody's done...

1. ...It can't be done. I'm sorry, but Nerf guns have pretty limited abilities, so your amazing ideas probably won't work. I don't want to be a spoil-sport, but I too had to learn that reality is where your dreams go to die.

2. ...Do it. If it works, then tell us about it. There's only a few people on here who have built up the credibility that they can get by on giving just an idea... and they wouldn't do that. Partially because it's a bad example, and partially because their ideas are worth their weight in gold, and they don't want other people to beat them to it.

3. ...Go to NHQ.

But, the Mav is the popular guns among newcomers (it's why I joined up), so everything that can be done to it pretty much has.

[ompa]

Well, Captain Slug managed to make a mod that would allow for longer barrels. It's just a harder mod than most to accomplish.

~ompa

[Forsaken angel24]

1.) Possible mod to use longer barrels.

Use the above link and integrate it with this and you shall get your semi auto mav.
Rusty's Mav

As for a scope you dont need it.
As for a shoulder stock check the mods directory or better yet use the search button then make one of the examples or make your own.

Edited by Forsaken_angel24, 24 June 2006 - 03:09 PM.

[z80]

Hey, is this the same FDSMan from the Benheck forums?

[ompa]

Wow. I actually completely forgot about Rusty's mod. I take back the semi-auto part, so it does exist. It's just very difficult to pull off.

~ompa

[fdsman]

Edit:Check first post for really crappy picture of my somewhat invisioned mod. Of course I am going to make it look much better, but to worry everyone (if anyone is even mildly intrested...).

Edited by fdsman, 25 June 2006 - 12:21 AM.

[AODL]

Try Bagheads Maverick mod.

[pat 1st Lt]

Not to be mean, but how would you

Increase the rate of fire by adding a folding OR retracting stock

?

I mean, I understand the second half of that sentance, the part about adding some device that would make it semi auto. But how would a stock increase the ROF?


Also:

*By longer barrel, I mean simply attach a pvc pipe small enough to still fit and stay put inside the already existing barrel ( The orange thingy if anyone is clueless.).

And if anything, it seems like you would be the clueless one. Unlike a firearm that uses a revolving cylinder, that orange piece is not a barrel. It does not interact with the darts in any way. It does not touch them in order to guide them. It does not impart any spin on them like a rifled barrel. It is simply an orange piece of plastic.

The only barrels on the Maverick are the holes in the cylinder itself. Those are the barrels; they are what holds the darts in while pressure builds up from the plunger striking home, and what the dart flies out of when the pressure it built up. In a spring gun, whatever does that is considered the barrel.

You could add a cosmetic barrel extending from the orange piece, but in order to not mess up the gun, it would have to not interact with the darts. Once the darts leave the barrels, they fly relativley straight. If you put a 'barrel' on after the end of the cylinder, it will either do absolutley nothing or make the dart spiral out of control and land three or four feet away from you.


You best bet for longer barrels is to do Captain Slug's endclip mod, which gets rid of the entire front half of the gun, and allows the cylinder to be removed. Since now there is not real front of the gun, you can add as long a barrel as you want. But, again, it would be easier and better to add a barrel extension to each one of the chambers in the cylinder, rather than try to line up one barrel so the cylinder rotates and lines up perfectly for it to fire.




I just read though that, and it sounded a little angry to me. Sorry if it came across as offensive; I was just trying to give some advice.


Sincereley,
Pat