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How to make gun bungees?

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Does anyone have a step by step instruction on how to make gun bungees?
 
Step 1: Get in car or on bicycle
Step 2: Go to closest spearo shop
Step 3: Ask for bungee
Step 4: Take out wallet and pay
Optional Step 1: log onto internet
Step 2: go to RA or similar site
Step 3: Place order
Step 4: Pay by credit card rofl

Seriously though, ours are made with hollow bungee cord with a lenth strong cord inside (for the life of me cant remember the name now :duh), you could also possibly use surgical tubing, the kind that stretches. The cord needs to be longer than the bungee, these get tied off with a tuna clip that gets attached to the shooting line and a loop on the other that connect to the gun using a constrictor knot on the outside of the bungee between two knots in the inside rope with the bungee bein folded over the knot to hide it.
Makes sense yes? :friday
 
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I'm not a big fan of the coil over type myself. I like the type TechnoSport distributes (they make them inhouse). It's like tuna cord or something. A loop is tied in one end. Then rubber, similar to waht you would use ont a polespear over the cord. Tie on a big snap swivel on the other end of the cord. Pull the rubber over the barrel of the snap swivel and over the knot in the loop end. Then a steel ring crimped over the rubber to keep the knots from coming out.

If you can find them locally, the snap swivels will run $5 or so and then the cord and rubber are minor. For the price, just order a couple online or buy at your local shop. No one has the snap swivels that big around where I live, so rather that buy all the components, I just order it and I'm done.
 
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This is what mine look like as described in that thread. Simple and effective. You can make the stiffer/softer simply by using thicker/thinner bungie cord.
 

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Mr. X said:
ILDiver, what are "the coil over type"?
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X, the picture you posted is of the bungee I was talking about. You feed the line through one hole, then "coil" or wrap the line around the bungee then through the other hole, then tie on you snap hook.
I said coil over because it reminds me of a coil over shock on a mountain bike, motorcycle or car.
 
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Thanks Chris. I wasn't sure if the omer bungee (or regular bungee with a woven nylon cover) might be strong enough alone but it looks like folk don't rely on it.
 
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