Prop Zombie Gun From Crutch

This Instructable shows one way to make a prop gun out of a discarded crutch.

It has the essence of gun, without being too accurate and forgetting its crutchy heritage.

Various left over parts.

Mainly a crutch, a plumbing fitment, a piece of curtain rail and some spray paint.

Tools;

A hacksaw.

A drill.

A rivet gun.

A file.

A screwdriver.

Here is the junk in the garden of a recently vacated neighbour; it has some broken crutches (perfect).

Also, here is my pile of metal bits from past projects.

Who on this planet can hold a crutch and not imagine it as a gun; not me.

So, this is a limited build using what I can find this morning, from some of this junk ; I will be making it up as I go along.

To give it a better gun ergonomic I faced the handle the opposite way by drilling out the existing rivet, turning the handle, drilling a small hole and securing with a small self-tapping screw.

I cut down the crutch and the inner tube to a less crutchy size with a hacksaw.

I hammered the muzzle block to the inner tube, (a perfect fit), but I did not like it and removed it later; I replaced it with the original rubber foot.

The trigger was a problem.

I tried this old bracket but I did not like it.

I decided to just go triggerless and just screwed on a trigger guard.

It needs a magazine; I cut a part of a curtain rail for the magazine and used two old brackets as the housing.

I simply used the holes in the brackets to rivet the magazine in place.

What ever this plumbing item was, it is now a telescopic sight; I drilled a hole through the whole assembly and bolted it all together.

The old jubilee clip was used as a spacer and hopefully looks like a sight adjuster.

I drilled the rivet off the arm-cuff and replaced it with part of a metal bracket, by drilling and bolting on.

I had just enough olive drab and black to cover it.

But the lack of trigger is vexing me . . . so a solution must be found.

I found this fastener.

I interrupted filming.

I only had to remove 1 screw to install it.

The End.