Anyone Into Rubber Band Guns?

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Bruise Lee

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I'm thinking of buying one for several reasons:

1) I'm thinking of using it to blow away bugs I see around the house. I know I am good enough to kill flies on the wall shooting by hand, so I figure I can be more accurate and have some quick follow up shots with a rubber band gun.

2) Its seems like a fun idea - better than swinging with a fly swatter.

3) Guns and ammo are cheap (how often can you say a gun you want is cheap?)

I've never owned one - can anyone make some recommendations model wise?

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Check out this gun I found for only only $29.95. Here are some of it's features:

# Variable Rate of Fire : With a little practice, you can accurately control both the rate of fire in full auto, and the length of bursts, or you can elect to fire in a single-shot / semi-automatic mode.

# Shotgun Mode : Select this mode and the whole magazine unloads as a single "shotgun charge".

# Folding Stock : Combined with the sights, this enables the Firewheel to be used as an accurate sniping rifle.

Magazine Capacity : 10-Shot

http://www.yoyoplay.com/rubberband.html

The site even has a video clip of the gun in action.

When was the last time your bought a select fire gun with a folding stock for under $30?:)

Not saying I need anything this fancy, really just looking for a good bug eliminator.

Bruise
 
Such high-tech goodies! Back when I was a kid, we made our own from clamp clothespins and chunks of wood. Sometimes fancy double-barrelled models.

And, for a real "magnum" model, we'd use bands cut from tire inner tubes. Back then, almost all tires ran tubes, and they were made of real stretchy rubber instead of the "dead" butyl stuff that came later on.

One of these would give you quite a whack!
 
I've gotten them locally but if you search the web for "fly gun" you'll find plenty of sources. It's powered by a coil spring, not a rubber band, though.
 
Here is a picture of mine I posted in the Busse forum. I apologize for the knife content here in Community. I think you can load up to about 15 shots or so and then just pull the trigger. You have to be careful when loading otherwise jams are common. Again, sorry about the knife.;)

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I didnt even know they made rubber band guns like the one in the first pic!!! Me and my buddies used to do a small scale version of paint ball with rubber band rifles, but they were never SO accurate we picked flys off. Good luck finding one for what you want. :) :) (We got ours at flea markets)
Jeff
 
Bruise Lee said:
I'm thinking of buying one for several reasons:

1) I'm thinking of using it to blow away bugs I see around the house. I know I am good enough to kill flies on the wall shooting by hand, so I figure I can be more accurate and have some quick follow up shots with a rubber band gun.

2) Its seems like a fun idea - better than swinging with a fly swatter.
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If you have a centerfire revolver you can kill bugs with primed brass . . . from about 5 feet with a 6" barrel . . . just don't splat 'em on a plaster ceiling, as it's a bitch to clean up. Hmmmmm . . . probably shouldn't do that at work, or if you live in an apartment either . . . rubberband gun is much quieter.
 
tyr_shadowblade said:
If you have a centerfire revolver you can kill bugs with primed brass . . . from about 5 feet with a 6" barrel . . . just don't splat 'em on a plaster ceiling, as it's a bitch to clean up. Hmmmmm . . . probably shouldn't do that at work, or if you live in an apartment either . . . rubberband gun is much quieter.
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You are saying the overpressure from the primer exploding kill them? Sounds fun, but way too loud for a guy who live in Los Angeles. I can see myself answering the door with my .357 loaded with primed brass as SWAT pays me a visit.

Besides, I know for a fact that if you fire primed brass in a revolver, the primer backs itself out of the primer cup. With no power charge to push the brass back into the recoil shield and push the primer back in, the primer protrudes out, preventing the cylinder from rotating.
 
Back when I was shooting wax bullets, I had a handful of cases which I'd drilled out for shooting with the primer alone.
You have to mark these and keep 'em seperate from your regular brass.

Primers are pretty energetic, I imagine they would splat bugs pretty well.
When we had a cabin down in the Ozarks, I used to use my .22 caliber Benjamin pellet gun to kill the huge, red wasps that liked to nest in the eaves.
Just a couple of pumps was sufficient to whack the wasp, and it wouldn't dent the shingles.
 
Thomason said:
Here is a picture of mine I posted in the Busse forum. I apologize for the knife content here in Community. I think you can load up to about 15 shots or so and then just pull the trigger. You have to be careful when loading otherwise jams are common. Again, sorry about the knife.;)

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Dude, why are you apologizing for the knife content? Just adds to it as far as I'm concerned. WOW, these are cool! I see a new obsession coming on!! ohno
 
when i was younger i had a gun similar to the one thomason posted, but it was a little tiny bit simpler, it didn't have that little plastic bit just ahead of the rotating wheel. i liked to sometimes load two or three rubber bands onto the same spoke at a time for a shotgun effect.

you could in theory use one to shoot flies. you might want to look for a longer barreled version (or make one) in order to stretch out the bands more and pack more power and accuracy into each shot.

great fun in any event
 
In my younger years, my dad let me use the Sheridan (5mm) air rifle to get rid of bugs. I would pump it once or twice and didn't use a pellet, just the blast of air to dispatch the offending bug. My favorite were tht flies on the screen door. Hit'em square and there was no mess to clean up.

Ric
 
Dude you're bringing back some memories, AND MAKING ME FEEL OLD!

I had one as a kid, best toy I ever got and it hooked me on shooting!

Regardless of gun type...on AMMO..........

Small rubber bands= higher velocity and splattered kills on windows!

Larger bands result in "stunned" insects on window sills!

I can well remember my mother berating me as a kid about the splattered flies on her windows and the "stunned" flies from the lower calibre bands!!!!

Great fun and many fond memories..............

Thanks for the trip down memory lane...........ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
 
Well, I decided to start out conservatively and bought one of these for less than $10:
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It's been warming up where I live, so the bugs are starting to multiply. So last night I walk into my bathroom and see a moth up on the ceiling. I think to myself: GREAT! This is my chance to try out my new rubber band gun under field conditions.

So, I grab my "Mag45 Snapshot", quickly load it, and slowly stalk my prey. I get to within maybe 18" of it, brace one of my elbows against the wall, and slowly squeeze the trigger.

The gun has a long length of pull, but finally the gun "fires." Shit! That moth is still there! It hasn't even moved, so I must have totally missed!

Wait a second! I inspect my prey more carefully. No wonder it hasn't moved! The entire center of its body is smashed into paste onto my wall! I nailed that sucker dead center!

I swear, I almost ran out and got my digital camera to record my "victory", but then I thought it would be pretty damn silly posting a shot of a dead moth I killed over the internet.

I'd have to say the gun is actually pretty accurate. It's capable of nailing big bug sized targets across an average size room. It's got plenty of "stopping power" to kill a bug. It can fires up to 6 shots without reloading. The last few shots can be a bit hard to load because of the design, but that's the only real criticism I have of the gun.

It's an extremely simple design, but it works well, and it seems fairly rugged. If you are looking for a cheap, fun, convenient way to indulge your hunting instincts, this is it! BTW, I took a shot at a spider I spotted but I missed so there actually is some skill involved in this.
 
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