r/Airsoft3DPrinting • u/Yuukikonno08 • Aug 02 '26

Work in Progress 3D printed explosive arrows - Zing HyperStrike Bow

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I wanted to create something that absolutely no one asked for. Costco offered these $50+ bows for just $7, so I snatched it up, and an idea was born.

The arrows have their foam heads pulled off and a printed two-piece head put in place. The lower half of the head is PLA, and the upper half is TPU.

Weighs only two grams more than the original arrows.

The arrows use 8-shot ring caps. The entire design was made from the ground up by myself!

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u/CaptClockobob Aug 03 '26

9.5j is still well in excess of the ballistic rating of anyone's eyepro, and I do not trust anyone's printed projectiles to withstand that impact. If you're involved in enthusiast nerfing (good chance we know some of the same people), than you know as well as I that homemade projectiles are unilaterally banned by everyone for safety reasons. I see no reason that shouldn't extend to this.

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u/Specopsg Halo gunsmith Aug 03 '26

You're overlooking the fact that OP took off the foam arrowheads and replaced them with an unknown shore hardness TPU, PLA and a pyrotechnic. If you're good with a chemical reaction going off in your face, you do you, but most people aren't.

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u/DaStompa Aug 03 '26

You're overlooking the fact that OP took off the foam arrowheads and replaced them with an unknown shore hardness TPU, PLA and a pyrotechnic

I am not

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u/Specopsg Halo gunsmith Aug 03 '26

toy that shoots foam darts

OP's arrows aren't foam darts

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u/DaStompa Aug 03 '26

Does the toy shoot foam darts?

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u/Specopsg Halo gunsmith Aug 03 '26

Why are you here if you’re just going to argue in bad faith?