Automatic Crossbow


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A fellow who calls himself "The Duckman" built an electrically-powered automatic crossbow. His objective was to have a usable crossbow now that arthritis prevents him from cocking each arrow, as he would on a conventional bow. The Duckman built the weapon with a magazine of 15 arrows and the battery allows him to fire 100 before replacement. I don't see his trigger finger move while he's firing, so it appears to be fully auto, rather than semi. More pictures and specifications at the link.

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in the first part of the video you can see him working the trigger. The rest he seems to just hold it down till its done.

Over engineered? well no, he built the thing because arthritis prevents him from cocking each arrow.

And yes DUCKS!
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Beautifully lit, great editing, decent sound...
Written by a slow twelve year old.

Had to stop at the four minute mark and induce vomiting. This guy's ready for network, and that's the worst insult I could think of without swearing.

So much effort with so little result.
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umm wait so is this supposed to be a really BAD knockoff of Dr. Horrible, without the singing, or decent acting, or even a $3.00 budget?

Wow, umm Im trying to think of a positive and the only one I can come up with is "NEXT".
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It looks like an expanded version of a series of web videos featuring the same character. (The point of said series was that the guy WAS a superhero, but kind of inept and lazy and utterly full of himself. Kind of like Captain Amazing, but without the corporate sponsors...)
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