{"id":13154,"date":"2016-03-14T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T22:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13154"},"modified":"2016-03-14T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T22:05:47","slug":"man-toys-a-slingshot-gun-that-shoots-spinning-knives-sure-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/14\/man-toys-a-slingshot-gun-that-shoots-spinning-knives-sure-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Toys: A Slingshot Gun That Shoots Spinning Knives? Sure Why Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Kunai Twister 2600&quot;: The World&#039;s First &quot;Rifled&quot; Knife Launcher?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qp1RK-NPEmM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">Our favorite mad German scientist Joerg Sprave has experimented with all kinds of unconventional guns that shoot sharp things. He&#8217;s built <a class=\"body-el-link standard-body-el-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/a16712\/tomahawk-slingshot\/\">a catapult for axes<\/a>, <a class=\"body-el-link standard-body-el-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/a19603\/modded-nerf-gun-shoots-scalpels\/\">a Nerf gun that shoots scalpels<\/a>, and <a class=\"body-el-link standard-body-el-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/news\/a19460\/homemade-pump-action-slingshot-for-throwing-knives\/\">a pump-action gun that fires throwing knives<\/a>. His latest build takes that last project to its absurd extreme; this slingshot rifle shoots <em>spinning<\/em> knives. Why not?<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">At its core, the gun is a pretty regular slingshot that uses rubber bands to catapult the knife down a launching track. The unique part is that the whole barrel system is mounted on bearings, which let a power drill spin the knife and barrel as the gun is firing. The result? A projectile that comes out spinning, much the same way a bullet comes out of a rifled barrel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">The gun certainly works, but the rifling doesn&#8217;t have that much of a stabilizing effect. Even with a serious spin, the knives still tend to tumble after only a few feet. Sprave chalks it up a lack of precision machining (he is working with wood, after all) and\/or the large surface area of the knife&#8217;s flat sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">So no, a &#8220;rifled&#8221; knife gun is not exactly a practical firearm. But maybe that&#8217;s for the best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-el-text standard-body-el-text\">Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/a19905\/rifled-slingshot-gun-joerg-sprave\/?mag=pop&amp;list=nl_pnl_news&amp;src=nl&amp;date=031416\">Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite mad German scientist Joerg Sprave has experimented with all kinds of unconventional guns that shoot sharp things. He&#8217;s built a catapult for axes, a Nerf gun that shoots scalpels, and a pump-action gun that fires throwing knives. His latest build takes that last project to its absurd extreme; this slingshot rifle shoots spinning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7100,24],"tags":[10265,3702,10266],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}