Before I start rambling about some highly explosive arrow let me just say I dont intend for this to be used for the hunting of any animal. Now that thats said I have an idea.A shotgun shell works by a piston hitting the primer to ignite the powder.....What if you replace the piston with an arrow??? Just tape the shell onto the field point and fire.BOOM.Yes I know that tape probably wouldnt hold the shell but if the shell were to stay in place what do you think?. I just want to see if you think it would work. Please if you have any other ideas feel free to share?:peace:

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Maybe it would be best to forget about the shotgun shell and just tape a fire cracker to the arrow :dizzy:

do it the easy way. just hold the shell in hand and hit with a hammer. same results. your dead. dont know if it is true but I have heard story about shooting a arrow out of a 410 shotgun with the shot removed.

I would want to be standing behind a bullet proof wall. I would think that the shot in the shell would come out in all directions. Seems like that is what the barrel of the gun is for, to keep everything moving foreward. I once place a 22. bullet on the barrel of my BB gun when I was about 10. I held it as high above my head as I could. When I shot the BB gun it blew the front sight off the gun and kinda split the barrel. I had to have my dad hacksaw the barrel off and put a new sight on it. Then I got my ass whooped and didn't get to shoot that gun for a month. I would assume the shotgun shell would do the same thing but with much worse result. My guess is it would go off as soon as you touched the release. Removing your bow hand and both of your eyes.:Cry:

Man I could tell you some stories.........:D

The most fun I have had is filling the arrow up with powder, putting a CCI 209 primer in the point end of the arrow ( with the discharge end inside the shaft) and then taping a BB or shot pellet to the face of the primer. When you shoot the arrow into a hard surface the BB end hits first setting off the primer which ignites the powder which "disassembles" the arrow:rockon:
Do not try this at home:D

This thread reminds me of the old roadrunner cartoons.:lol: :bowl:

Would you mind if I put a life insurance policy on you with me as beneficiary?:decision:

ok

don't really have much to say on this subject other then

the dang thing might go off as soon as you release the string -- from the jolt of the bow your arrow point could fire the primer causing a heck of a mess versus thinking it will go off down range away from ya.

just my thoughts

Reminds me of the time we got some M-80 "thing BIG fire crackers"... I thought it would be cool to put one in the pocket of my slingshot and have a buddy light the fuse while I held it back an waited for the fuse to burn down sufficiently to have it detonate up in the air when I let it loose.... That was the plan and it would have worked if the M-80 wasn't so large that it hit the "Y" of the slingshot when I let it go.... With an already burning very short fuse. Can you say "run away!!!"

After a few beers at deer camp while sitting around a campfire in the wee hours of the morning, it's great fun to drop a few .22's in the glowing coals while nobody is paying attention and casually mosey off to visit a tree and watch the hilarities ensue

Before I start rambling about some highly explosive arrow let me just say I dont intend for this to be used for the hunting of any animal. Now that thats said I have an idea.A shotgun shell works by a piston hitting the primer to ignite the powder.....What if you replace the piston with an arrow??? Just tape the shell onto the field point and fire.BOOM.Yes I know that tape probably wouldnt hold the shell but if the shell were to stay in place what do you think?. I just want to see if you think it would work. Please if you have any other ideas feel free to share?:peace:

You're going to have to lay off the "Dukes of Hazzard" re-runs!

In all seriousness though you plan is flawed in that a shotgun shell when ingnited outside of a barrel (or other means of compression) has very explosive characteristics. The primer pops and the powder burns.

Very little "boom", just fire.

There are much more effective means, but if I posted them here....well...:tape:

What you are talking about here has already been made and they are used by divers. They are called bang sticks

I like the powder in the shaft idea, now that sounds like fun. :rockon:

uh oh, I just saw a black helecopter outside my window:doh:

uh oh, I just saw a black helecopter outside my window:doh:


If you actually saw it, and are still typing, you have nothing to fear.



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We used to do this when I was a kid.

We used cotton balls, black powder in an aluminum shaft. Capped off with a .38 shell casing(With primer), then take a similar diameter cork, push a roofing nail down the center almost all the way through. Then glue the cork to the shell casing over the primer.

A BB superglued to the primer works ok too.

We'd shoot them high and let them land in a dry creek bed.

I seem to remember this was inspired by watching The Dukes of Hazzard. :D

I seem to remember this was inspired by watching The Dukes of Hazzard. :D

Aye you are correct, I remember the episode vividly....

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/f/f9/Dukes102-bow1.jpg/500px-Dukes102-bow1.jpg



I was more err.. "inspired" by Daisy

Give it a try!

Could you video it?

You know you want too.

Get a friend to upload it afterwards. Someone that stood far enough away at the time:) Someone that still has there hands etc.:)

Mark

LMFAO

There was a picture of a guy, at least a picture of his hind end after inserting a firecracker in his A_ _ . The picture was in a hospital emergency room. Are you that guy?

I prefer shotguns to fire my shotgun shells........You wouldn't stick an arrow down a shotgun barrel would you? Or would you?.......:bowl:

I'm thinking this type of "experimenting" will void your bow warranty :biggrin1:

There was a picture of a guy, at least a picture of his hind end after inserting a firecracker in his A_ _ . The picture was in a hospital emergency room. Are you that guy?

No im not the guy who stuck a firecracker up his:tape:
heehee that must have been aquward telling your parents why your in the hospital.:D

Aye you are correct, I remember the episode vividly....

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/f/f9/Dukes102-bow1.jpg/500px-Dukes102-bow1.jpg



I was more err.. "inspired" by Daisy

Ahhh ya beat me to it :biggrin1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tBPkIlmeS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVahjGXa0vw

etc.

Thats it.....Im tryin it:peace:

Ha Ha and you guys thought I was foolin :peace: Seriously.....if you tape a BB over the end you will get more consistant firing with the primer.

What you are talking with a exploding tip will work. the thing about putting a shot shell on the tip of an arrow is a bad idea. I have reloaded ammo for years and I can tell you that the plastic of a shot shell will not stand up to the CUP generated by the propellant unless it has a chamber around it. If i was trying to make an arrow that explodes on contact I would use a 38 cartridge set inside a shaft that fits to the tip of the arrow that way it has some reinforcement and will deposit the energy in the place you want it. All you need is a pin at the bottom of the shaft and a spring between tip of the arrow and the cartridge base. bullet tip hits target compresses spring making bullet hit pin and bang an explosive delivered by an arrow that will be devastating to a target. :peace:

been about 20 yrs but i think a 38 over the end of a 2317 will knock the door off the out house.

I realize that the actual shell will banana out and the shot will go in all directions if I dont contain it. Thats why I did some testing and I figured out that if a put a 1.5 inch diameter sleeve around the back 1/2 of the shell that it will not rip and continue in a stright path as it explodes.:D I know so cooooooooooooooooooooooooool