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Man Hacks Machete
An anonymous reader writes "An 'expert' from the Slingshot Channel has constructed what might be one of the most ridiculous yet awesome slingshots known to man. He has altered a machete and built a huge rig to fire it off with an obscene amount of force. Dangerous as all get out, but totally awesome!" There's a Slingshot Channel?
What this guy did, or the fact there's actually a slingshot channel. It almost makes me want cable again. Almost.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Machete Hacks Man.
"There ought to be limits to freedom." -George W. Bush
Immediately think of Half-Life 2?
How does it feel to be a liar with pants constantly on fire?
Exaggerate much? I wouldn't call this an extreme amount of force myself, though I suppose he really stuck it to that cardboard target from 5ft.
From the video:
"What is it good for? Nothing except attracting people's attention on YouTube."
dude is a frequent poster on zombiehunters . org his slingshots are works of art!!
This would qualify as an Indian Panâ, which is a fairly well known weapon / toy in the Philippines, and is basically a combination of the ideas of a crossbow and slingshot. Normally they are smaller and fire arrows, or in some cases, toy airplanes. Of course this fires a Bolo (Machete), but that just makes it more fun. The proliferation and variety of Machetes and short swords among Filipino tribes is fascinating, but they probably have never adapted a slingshot to launching them :D. obvious reason why: this would have a fair chance of taking down one Zombie at extremely short range, but if i keep it in my hand, it the Machete itself is capable of taking down several orders of magnitude more if used well - and even I can throw a Machete with more force than this and be accurate to a longer range (and put a nice spin on it too). none of that makes this any less fun though - very cool design. I wonder if the guy is aware of its similarity to the Filipino weapon.