Short Gun : Rubber Band

Hi All,

I made my first rubber band gun, two weeks back.... and my son gave me a challenge to make another with 10 rounds...

So, in this instructables I will share how I made a 10 round, short gun using leftover wood and rubber band... This project is simple to make and in few hours you should be good to have a do a duel with your kid or friends

With this project I was able to reuse old wood and make a toy of it. and my son and his friends really enjoyed it. I hope to inspire more people to reuse and recycle..

Material

• Wooden strip ( 3/4" x 10" and 3/4" x 8.5")
• Wooden flooring leftovers from previous projects
• 1" screws
• 10 no 1" diameter rubber bands
• 2" ( 4/16" or 6mm) bolt with nut ( I am not good in converting mm to inches )
• Drilling machine
• Jigsaw
• Mitre box saw

This design is inspired by the simplest rubber band gun and a short gun.

I have attached reference design with scale

• I used old wooden flooring (mdf), You could use a wooden plank as well
• I used a jigsaw to cut these and I recommend clamping the wood planks to a table before cutting
• Cut the handles as shown

• I don't know what to call this part, I will just call it a barrel
• We need to cut ten slots to hold the rubber bands at a distance of 10mm
• I used a mitre box hand saw, Not all lengths were at same dept, use a matchstick to level these later
• And give a rounded edge to the bottom one

• Fix the upper barrel on the handle
• Keeping distance of 6 mm to 7mm between them, fix the lower barrel below
• This gap between upper and lower barrel, works as a channel for the trigger to move freely and in line

• To give it a short gun's pump action, I used half rounded wooden strip
• The trigger initially was made at 45 degree angle, later adjusted to 30 degrees
• Using a 6mm bolt to hold left and right triggers
• I added small wooden piece between the right and left tiggers, to guide it's movement within the gap

Load the gun with 10 rounds of rubber band and test on a target

Future

• add a motor and make this an automatic
• auto load rounds
• bigger

Please share comments and suggestions to improve this design further