Darth Maker

I should have had this up a week ago, but whatever. I made it three days late for Apocalypses. Tis a shame, because I would have used it there. Ranges are dependent on bow/string tension.



Nothing crazy special, basically just an AaBow. The only section that can't be easily disassembled is the front bushing on the plunger tube. And that's because it needed to be glued for the seal. The bow arms are one piece 3/4" CPVC, and the 1" PVC is one piece as well. E-tape and screws hold them together.





Higher resolutions and more pictures can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/BiWyb#0

This was an awesome first nerf war for me. Yeah, I'm the one that was getting called Jesus and John the Baptist.

Major plus: a long arching shot on VACC during a DM round.

I was the VIP that hid in the trees. I had a blast doing that, and even got a couple kills.

Thanks msinickers for supplying darts, and marking them uniquely for me. I didn't even touch half of them. The last three rounds I played I just pick up darts and stuck 'em in my hopper. My SNAP fired everything I put in it, and was running great with dirt in the plunger.

Thanks for a great war guys!

I'm coming, and bringing a friend. First NIC war and all that jazz. I'm hoping my/our blasters aren't completely underpowered.

I wish I could have come to a warm-up war, but 4.5hr is just too far when you don't have any extra money.

I am bring one of the rifled barrels for my NF rifle. It does actually improve the flight pattern of streamlines. I won't be winning any wars with it, but that's more due to a lack of streamlines and it being underpowered (compared to SNAPs, etc) more than anything else.

This catch is easier to make. Superlative and preemptive catches are over complex in my opinion. This design is simpler and uses fewer parts. It's also newer, and perhaps the roughest edges haven't quite been sanded out yet. You didn't have the superlative and preemptive (they need replaced just because of the stupid names...) catch/heads when the first SNAP was made.

For what it's worth, ACE and hero, you guys did a great job on a new homemade. I look forward to the next revisions, and this has just replaced my eventual plans to build another normal SNAP.

I posted this a while back on NRev, thought I'd bring it over here too. I didn't really think this was enough to get a full writeup though.

First the money shot:



Side shot:


Here is internal details. The screw tabs on the plunger tube broke off when a youngin' dry-fired it. So I super glued some acrylic pieces in place, and readjusted the placement of the plunger tube (read: draw extension.)



There are three pieces of acrylic. The top piece is placed so that it rest against the tactical rail catch-nub box.



The two bottom pieces are cut to form around the screw ports. The lower piece fits over the original screw mount for the plunger tube, and the upper pieces sits on top, with a hole drilled for the screw. The lower piece also has a cut-out for the screw port closer to the front of the gun. Both pieces are super glued to the plunger tube and each other.

(This picture has the upper and lower pieces swapped, to show the detail of the lower piece.




Now, while the plunger tube is farther forward, judging by the plunger rod, it looks like it sticks just as far out the back of the gun as without mods. However, it actually has more travel than that. I used rather thick foam for padding, but the plunger can be pushed farther into the shell.




When you fire the gun, the momentum carries the plunger forward into the foam quite a bit. Unfortunately, the spring isn't quite long enough to press the plunger against the foam, so when it's pushed forward it rattles some.