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thanatos
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sat 06 Feb 2010, 15:08

it wasnt being used in the rlsh world.

comes from a earlier time and yes, it would almost remove a head if thrown hard enough.


what can I say? rough childhood Smile

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sat 06 Feb 2010, 16:15

Croquet balls are pretty big. What about pool balls or bocce balls?

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sat 06 Feb 2010, 16:52

I'm still thinking of filling tennis balls with some sand or something to give them a little weight (not all the way filled though)
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sat 06 Feb 2010, 16:58

would golf balls work???
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sat 06 Feb 2010, 17:10

Dark Ghost wrote:
would golf balls work???


They might, but I would be worried about them not locking together because they are so smooth and small.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sat 06 Feb 2010, 18:03

I just found a vid on youtube that shows how to make a bola here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_RD9k8xZ9E
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sun 07 Feb 2010, 19:47

I LOL'D hard at White Skulls thoughts on the exploding bola.

As for what types of balls, I think cricket balls would be cool for bola. They are hard, heavy and slightly smaller than baseballs.

Tennis balls full of sand could be cool though.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Sun 07 Feb 2010, 21:20

I just looked at my bocce ball set today. They are bigger than I remembered. I think that my croquet balls are smaller.

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Mon 08 Feb 2010, 15:27

Would lacrosse balls fit the bill? Those things are pretty heavy and around tennis ball size.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Mon 08 Feb 2010, 16:37

Yeah! Those would work well Hunter. I hadn't thought about that.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Mon 08 Feb 2010, 17:10

I will try making one out of golf balls. I will let you guys know how it works out.

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Mon 08 Feb 2010, 17:23


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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Mon 08 Feb 2010, 22:19

You guys are scaling in the wrong direction. Think smaller. MUCH smaller.

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 01:49

Victim wrote:
You guys are scaling in the wrong direction. Think smaller. MUCH smaller.


What do you mean, Victim?


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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 02:36

The balls don't have to be overly large, just large enough to provide decent weight. Good sized fishing sinkers would provide adequate weight. Use leather boot laces (pay attention to length) for the lines themselves. Some designs include a loop of leather, or a metal ring, in the center to hold onto with your throwing hand.

Practice throwing at a telephone pole first. Practice at different distances on the stationary target at first and then practice throwing while you're moving either horizontally, or towards/away from the target. Getting a willing target to practice on that's moving is dangerous.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 04:17

SS has the right idea. You just have to get the line to entangle the target, the weights don't have to do any damage. The line doesn't have to be very substantial either. The target is going to stumble even if heavy fishing line is used, giving you time to catch up with them and restrain them.

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 09:08

So... I should find smaller grenades?

GREAT, JUST WHEN I HAD A WORKING PROTOTYPE.

I... oh, hey, has anyone seen that minion I sent off to test my prototype, by the way?

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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 11:30

I was thinking about the sinkers and using light weight string to have a bola I could shoot from my slingshot, just for entangling legs, but never got around to doing it.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 11:30

Another thing I tried once when I was youg was to attach two yo yo's together and throw them like a Bola, that worked ok.
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PostSubject: Re: New weapon to try: the bola   Tue 09 Feb 2010, 12:46

Wouldn't be practical, unless you trained in that weapon for a really long time. A BB gun will do the trick. It'll stagger him long enough for you to close in and beat him with a bicycle. Then you stun him with Michael jackson's glove.
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