The Ballista

Goofing around at the forge this afternoon, I knocked out the quadrobate features on this hardened bolt head.

With this 2870 grain business end hooked up to to a 28″ Bamwood shaft, the finished projectile should come in at around 7400 grains.   Now to find a target that will be suitably impressed.

Here is a super quick vid of a cobbled together,  long range remote set up for my Sony camcorder.     20100228230157

In the immortal words of Mr. Spock,  “Crude, but effective.”   It can trip the slow smooth record feature from at least 100 meters away.  That gives a full four seconds of slow motion recording time to capture the proceedings downrange.

Hurry up silly little winch part.  My trigger finger is getting a mite itchy.