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    Image of lifeblack lifeblack
    10/27/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    The problem with an atlatl is that the spear construction is absolutely critical to power transmission. The spear will bend to store energy, and then rebound off the atlatl. Because different people have different strengths, and different arm lengths, etc, it's impossible to make a standard spear. That's why it was replaced in most cases by the bow and arrow, where the arrow is standardized, and the bow stores the energy.
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    I think I heard that ancient Roman infantry carried these with them at one point. #atlatl
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    10/27/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    that thing must be terribly inaccurate #atlatl
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    10/27/09

    @IceMax: Once you get the hang of it, it's incredibly accurate. Every culture in the world has made a variation of it in their history. #atlatl
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    10/27/09

    @Barry99705: OH SNAP! #atlatl
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    I made a similar device that that has a boot on one end. It has enough leverage to toss my mother-in-law out of the house when she yaps too much.

    I call it the getthefuckoutl #atlatl
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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    I actually made one of these for my 8th grade history project. Pretty sweet. #atlatl
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House

    Wait till your kids get ahold of it. #atlatl
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    Having a deadly spear chucker around will draw kids like flies, not keep them away. #atlatl
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Make a High-Speed Spear Launcher, Ensure No Parents Let Kids Trick or Treat at Your House
    Now I've got something for those darn ding-dong-ditchers #atlatl
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