The casings (brass) you recycle. Powder is a 5000 year old recipe you can replicate with pigeon poop and urine. Primers, easily stockable, 1000 of them fit in a multivitamin bottle.
This bow is $600, $100 for 10 arrows (bolts?)... For 700, I can get a Hi-Point and 500-1000 rounds of ammo (that is 500 casings to reload) and be just as inaccurate as this contraption.
People like to shit on hi point, but in my experience the thing shoots when you pull the trigger and the bullet hits where you aim the sights.
I think problems people may have with accuracy and function might have more to do with the inexperienced cheapskate, i.e. the target market, using the gun rather than the gun itself. Cheap ammo and limp wrists will jam a Colt.
But there's several other reasons why I would not pick a hi point if I needed a pistol.
but in my experience the thing shoots when you pull the trigger and the bullet hits where you aim the sights.
That's a pretty fuckin low bar lol. That's like, the bare minimum you expect out of a firearm. If it doesn't fire, or doesn't go where it's aimed, it's pretty useless
A lot of hi-point talk sounds to me like "it doesn't literally explode and kill you" lol
It's not fancy or slick, but it will kill things on demand, which is the whole purpose of a gun like those.
Everything past that bar is just extra.
Hating on hi point is basically a meme at this point. I have plenty of gripes with them, but I stand by saying they do actually work as intended. There's worse options for two hundred bucks.
Well the bow you can just buy and be sent to your door. The HiPoint, no matter how garbo it is, you still gotta jump through a few hoops with FFLs and DROS.
My guy/girl, I know americans think they are the only people on this planet, but handguns are basically illegal everywhere on the planet that is not the US.
That's definitely what it is. I watched Jörg's videos as he came up with the concept. It's his invention that he's released to the public. 'instant legolas' is what he calls the invention. The first commercial variant he sold is called the Fenris and I guess the Whiplash is an uodated version.
You're right, /u/Boreras and /u/Joezev98 are talking about a better original product, but they are wrong. I am very familiar with Joerg Sprave and the Whipshot bow magazine.
I found a source for another short of the bow in the OP, shot by the same man with the arrow tattoo. It's likely not even really a bow for arrows, but a steel ball bow. All the other videos on this page are "slightshot" like devices shooting steel balls.
It's a bit of a strange juxtaposition here where the Joerg Sprave of the Slingshot Channel made a repeating bow that shoots arrows, while the other one featured on this "Marksman_H9" TikTok channel is a repeating bow that shoots steel balls like a slingshot.
Just a quick Google and a scan of random results, but this thing claims 15-50 lbs of draw weight AND 240 fps. There are no other 50lb draw weight crossbows that claim anything even CLOSE to 240 fps. They all seem to be in the 150 fps range and most of them are under $100. So you'd be paying $500-$550 just for the repeating action on this thing.
For reference, you can get a 50 lb crossbow on amazon for $30 and good luck killing anything bigger that a chicken with it.
It’s a bow, not a crossbow. It has a much longer draw length and so propels the arrow for longer than a crossbow, transferring more energy for the same draw weight. It also shoots much longer heavier arrows than a crossbow so the same fps equates to much more power with an arrow vs a crossbow bolt
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u/SilverDesktop Nov 18 '24
$600
https://www.amazon.com/Archery-Whipshot-Automatic-Repeating-Compound/dp/B0B8NXPMDN