Automatic Crossbow - Neatorama

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A fellow who calls himself "The Duckman" built an electrically-powered automatic crossbow. His objective was to have a usable crossbow now that arthritis prevents him from cocking each arrow, as he would on a conventional bow. The Duckman built the weapon with a magazine of 15 arrows and the battery allows him to fire 100 before replacement. I don't see his trigger finger move while he's firing, so it appears to be fully auto, rather than semi. More pictures and specifications at the link.

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Now you can silently kill a whole army!

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in the first part of the video you can see him working the trigger. The rest he seems to just hold it down till its done.

Over engineered? well no, he built the thing because arthritis prevents him from cocking each arrow.

And yes DUCKS!

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That is some cool weapon! With a hobby like that I am sure the neighbors don't give him any problems. :)

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Ducks... bad teeth.... slightly creepy... crossbow? Definitely british.

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What on earth have his teeth got to do with it?

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Not to be a stickler, but Carey is actually the 4th host of The Price Is Right. Dennis James hosted a prime-time syndicated version of the show from 1972-1977. Carey is the 3rd host of the daytime version of the show, though.

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It is puzzling to me that people are so interested in doing all this research,but thanks I guess.

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I'm a big fan of TPIR and thought that nobody could fill Bob's shoes. But Drew Carey has won me over. It's good to hear that the ratings haven't suffered from Bob's exit.

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"the longest running American game show in the world"

Something funny about that sentence.

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Look at the old Bill Cullen episodes on YouTube. The show was very different. For one thing, Cullen had a polio-related limp, so he never moved around on camera.

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Tom Kennedy and, regretably, Doug Davidson have also hosted syndicated versions of The Price is Right. Dick Van Dyke turned down the role of host of the original version.

BTW, the reason why Drew Carey looked so angry on the perfect bid show is because he thought the episode would never air.

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@Alfonzo: Interesting and I could see how that makes sense.

I'm for Carey, it seems to have chilled him out. Thats the role though, you're playing second to the prizes and the real star is people's excitement. He's not as suave and charming as bob. I think he gets kisses out of tradition.

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