I am an outdoorsman. I don’t do as much outdoorsing as I did in my youth, in the San Bernardinos, but I do still go fishing, hiking, and camping.
And hunting. I am a hunter. I am both a hunter with firearms, and a bowhunter. (And, once upon a time whilst roughing it for longer than a week, a trapper – a snare can catch a hell of a fat rabbit for dinner.)
The Rac-Em-Bac Bow Mag is the wrost thing I’ve seen in a long time. It’s fucking awful. Here, check the video:
This is wrong on so many goddamn levels, I don’t even know where to begin. But I’ll try:
– Hot chicks are not the ones that are going to use this for hunting. This product will solely be used by dumbass older dudes who want to play Rambo out at a private ranch and blow up watermelons.
– Why is it dumbassed? Because it’s fucking illegal to hunt with explosive tips in most states that have a bowhunting season.
– The Bow Mag completely invalidates the entire point of bowhunting, for the love of fuck. The point of bowhunting is that it’s nearly silent, has a much shorter effective range, and therefore requires WAY more skill. This thing goes BANG, and as far as I can tell, smashing a .357 mag round into a pig or deer is going to do way more immediate damage than a broadhead – therefore you won’t have to track your kill in the event you get slightly off center on your point of impact.
Already had one friend point out that it might be cheaper. MOTHAFUCKA PLS. A box of .357 Mag right now runs between $24 and $38. These tips also cost $40. Hooray, you just spent $70 on playing Rambo. If you have the bullets, you likely already have a gun – and a good .357 mag pistol runs about $250 used. And has better range than this bullshit. And better accuracy, unless you’re buying a snubbie.
I think even Ted Nugent would decry that this product is bullshit of the worst order. It’s awful. It both invalidates the point of bows, and firearms, and results in something so much worse than either of them.
Arguments?
It’s a novelty item. More than likely it will end up sitting on the shelf of someone with too much disposable income gathering dust along with a box Hornady Zombie Max rounds and various other ‘collectable’ firearm memorabillia. If someone wants to spend their money on this, let them.
That said, my inner Mythbuster would love to try some of these out – if someone else was paying for them.
Oh yeah, if I had all the money in the world (or reasonable portion thereof, like the people I bumped into recently who actually had not only his’n’hers matching Road Kings, but a SPARE set of Harleys at their vacation home….O.o) I can see buying some just for giggles and slaughtering the produce aisle with ’em.
Until and unless we stumble over a winning lottery ticket, I’m not going to buy the Go-Go-Gadget Explosive Arrowheads anytime soon.
I agree that this is a ridiculous product made to sell to those with more money than brains or talent with a bow (or pistol/rifle) and that generally for “game” species this would be as illegal as hell. But in many states other than the Kommunist republic of California, feral hogs are not managed by G&F as a game species, but instead as a feral-invasive species with no hunting season or legal methods of take other than “no discharge of firearms in city limits” which might be where the idea came from for this product.
That said you forgot to mention the one issue with this which is spoilage of meat, IF you were a responsible hunter who was using this to increase the likely hood of quick death of your game, you would waste large amounts of meat thanks to the gases being discharged directly into the animal the pressure jet shredding flesh and then contaminating flesh with both powder residue and unburned powder rendering it uneatable.
That to me is the biggest “sin” of this product, the wantan waste of the animal, something often seen with the bigger is better crowd in hunting cartridges.
I’ll admit that while I shoot and enjoy shooting, I haven’t been hunting. And this still seems like a stupid idea. Even figuring that you’re using a bow on a species like wild pigs (where I have *heard* of folks using full-cap suppressed semiauto rifles with night vision scopes to pig hunt in Certain States. And it’s legal.), the big reason I can think of to use a bow would be negated. Using a bow means practically no firing signature, and you can potentially line up another shot on a different pig. If you’re going to hunt with .357 magnum rounds, hunt with a .357 mag. Not a bow.
Agreed. It’s so wrong, and bad. It’s for dumb asses. It’s horrible.
I still want one though. Sigh.
it’s basically a bangstick. for land use. I assume they are single-use? bangstick heads are reloadable and thus require a serial number and are treated like pistols. the only reason I could see it being useful is if you’ve been treed by a pissed off hog or bear, and can’t carry a pistol
Ok, so it’s useless for hunting. So it’ll be sold to dumb old guys to blow up watermelons. What the hell is wrong with that? Blowing up watermelons is a perfectly legitimate pursuit.
Why yes, I’m a capitalist. Why do you ask?
Wow. So now there’s an “arrow” version of the same dumbassery that is the seed vault the Beck shilled for a while.
Though you forgot one category of people who will buy it…
People trying to do dumbass Hawkeye / Green Arrow / Deadpool stunts, and end up somehow shooting themselves with it.
^This^ was my first thought. Fanboy stuff.
I remember poison pods for arrowheads being a “thing” at one time, though.
Bo Duke called. Something about his share of the “patent” rights.
Also, I’ll be giggling all day over the Crossbow Arrowhead.
Don’t give them any ideas. These loons also make an arrowhead loaded with #7 steel shot and an entire line of arrowheads loaded with game scents.
At over six bucks a throw for a non-resuable “arrowhead” that blows up on impact, the only winner out there is the manufacturer.
OK, someone beat me to the Green Arrow comment. Darn it. But, damn, I’d love a chainsaw arrowhead. If, you know, the last time I fired a bow wasn’t over a decade ago and if I didn’t totally suck at it.
Some idiot with too much money will use this to win a Darwin Award nomination.
My favorite part is the way the narrator describes the boar. Granted, they can be pretty nasty sons of bitches, but judging from this guy’s description that chick should have been hunting a chupacabra or something.
Somewhere out there is a viewer saying, “What a POS… they don’t even make it in .45acp.”
Is it wrong of me to confess that I want a chainsaw arrowhead?
Wrong? Yup. But you already knew that. Still I want one as well.
Joe Biden will be on TV endorsing this soon.
Seriously? This is a thing now? How much more damage is that going to do from a ballistic standpoint? I mean it’s going to kill your penetration. Plus a shell on it’s own does not really do much unless it’s got a confined space with which to build up pressure and velocity. Think if it like a small fire cracker you’d break off a strip of 50. Hold one in your open palm and light it (For the love of god don’t really do it, I’m just using it as an example) it’ll sting but no real damage. But tighten your fist around it and do the same it’ll do some damage.
That housing looks plastic from the video so I honestly don’t know. Or wait, is this more of that gimmick stuff from that company that put out all those weird ammo types? Dragons breath flame thrower shotgun rounds and FangFace compressed Tungsten-NyTrilium frangible ammo?
These powerhead types have been around for spearguns for years. Stupid idea for bows
Far more watermelons will die to this than anything.
You’re missing the point. When TEOTWAKKAWAKKA happens I’ll have 1000 of these loaded up with .357+P+, ready to take out any scavengers coming to my compound! Can you imagine the looks on their hideously radiation scarred faces when an arrow comes out of nowhere, bruises their knee, and goes ‘POP’ like bubble wrap…but the knee vanishes! They’ll all hobble off in fear from my mighty compensation rods of boom.
These bloody things need to come with a red bandanna in the package.
I used to be a Radioactive SCAvenger until I took an arrow to the knee….. Damn you Rac EM!
The only potential use for these I can think of is in a zombie apocalypse. They’d give you a way to deliver a bullet without the gunshots giving away your position to the slavering, undead hordes.
Products like this always make me wonder if this was the end result of a bar bet wherein two people decided to see who could sell the more ridiculous product.
I really didn’t think this was real until I hopped on YouTube. This is one of those products on par with the electric fan superchargers for your car. Just a horrible idea. It’s products and companies like this that make me lose faith in people.
I want to see the giant boxing glove arrow you slide a roll of quarters into when you go out hunting Mike Tyson.
I actually figured out how to make a functioning (not gonna’ claim it’s practical) boxing glove arrow. It works like a car airbag, staying tightly folded until impact, when it inflates.
I used these for years to hunt rabbits and squirrels. The blunt tip doesn’t penetrate the animal, but the shock of the impact kills them. Kinda like a boxing glove.
Visualize something like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_59GYpEVAu0U/TRrL_tjFzvI/AAAAAAAAAqs/1996oTFm23Q/s1600/dagger-pistol1.jpg
Except that the hilt is skinnier so that it’s actually a plug bayonet for a Renaissance boar rifle. Couldn’t find the exact pic online, but it’s in a book I have on hunting weapons. This kind of stupid goes back at least 500 years.
Yeah, no. This isn’t dangerous crossing the streams, it’s stupid.
The company claims on the website: “… rounds will not fire until they hit your INTENDED target…” (my emphasis on ‘intended.’) So, they must have some kind to telepathic link to the shooter so they don’t detonate when you miss your pig (or watermelon) and your arrow careens into a tree (or fence post.)
Oh jesus. Didn’t realize just how dangerous this could be if it hit a fence plank. HI THERE, NOW YOU HAVE A .357 MAG BULLET GOING OFF INTO THE DISTANCE IN A RANDOM TRAJECTORY!
Before I thought it was stupid. Now I think it’s completely dangerous.
Seems like if you hit the wrong thing, you could have a piece of lead and a shaft bouncing around. But I guess skin tight camo keeps either projectile from hitting you. Have to start shopping at Cabella’s Secret just to be safe.
Shut up and take my money.
I think that the Weapon Maker show had something like this a while ago on Discovery or TLC; repeating on Netflix’s. The point of the bullet round on the end of a spear was as a way to pierce armor. Someone saw the idea and said “Shit! That’s awesome; let’s put it on an arrow head next.”
So they got around to doing it and making a flying “bang-stick” for lack of a better word or concept. If anything it’s a nastier way to kill someone. In theory if you stuck this on a crossbow it would be horrible way to kill someone or some animal. It would likely go through most body armor and kill up close as a semi-silent weapon.
I can already see several states outlawing this right out of the gate. I can also see officials in Texas legalizing it for pest control of boar hunting as a one shot, one kill weapon for these problems. I can also see several reality shows endorsing this product as well as part of their idiocy too.
You know what else is a 1-shot/1-kill weapon for pigs in Texas? A goddamn Mosin.
You know what else will go through most body armor and kill as a nearly-silent weapon? A crossbow.
Actually, I’d guess the armor would have a better shot at stopping the bullet (which, after all, is what it’s designed to defend against) than a standard crossbow bolt. Soft body armor is designed to protect against low-mass, high-velocity (and thus low-momentum, high-energy) projectiles. That’s exactly what a crossbow bolt is not.
I have to wonder how much energy a bullet would actually have when fired from a Bow-Mag; energy is transferred over time via barrel length. Practically no barrel length equals practically no energy. You could probably load a blank cartridge and have it be almost as effective, since most of the energy is escaping as gas anyway.
Where did the model in the ad get the form-fitted camo outfit….?
Wal-Mart. Probably the same Wal-Mart where I saw the camo lingerie. (The one in Fredericksburg, TX, for the record.)
What the sweet gibbering fuck? Next they’ll invent a bow that explodes after you fire it or, better yet, before you fire it so that kind of stupid goes away.
I can’t say much from a “purity of the bow” standpoint as I’m a crossbow guy (carpal tunnel says no to bowstrings). But this is completely asinine from a physics standpoint: the arrow and the bullet just split when it strikes the animal.
Even crossbow hunting is very, very different from firearms hunting. It’s a completely different skill set. Windage, elevation, and most importantly, silence and tracking skills all come into play in a different way.
Dugan Ashley is probably ordering a case of this right now 🙂
But…the chick in the ad is really HAWT!!! It must be good!
Wouldn’t the ATF consider this a zip gun or AOW or some other such thing that may as well be made of unobtanium?
Reading the comic, I thought it was funny but I had no idea you were lampooning an actual product until I saw the video. Blown away.
Komrade Wodkeh says, “Arrow Roulette. RUSSIAN Arrow Roulette. This is good idea, da?”
” It both invalidates the point of bows, and firearms, and results in something so much worse than either of them. ”
In other words, it is a spork.
When they showed the exploding-arrow scene in Rambo-whatever-sequel-it-was, in the theater, the audience reaction was
loud guffaws.
Absolutely nobody said out loud, “Ooooh, cool!”
Different times..
” This product will solely be used by dumbass older dudes who want to play Rambo out at a private ranch and blow up watermelons.”
So
when are you going?
*ducks* 😀
The Ranch? Nah, probably the Marital. He likes dumb ass stuff.
Nope, no argument. Stupid is as stupid does.
I haven’t been hog hunting in close to ten years, but I seem to recall you could hunt hogs down here in Florida any way you like. Of course, most of the local boys prefer to use dogs to run the hog down to truss it up and feed it up on grain for a month before slaughtering it. Makes the meat more palatable. But if you’re after a trophy hog, you can go ahead and use throwing knives if you felt like it.
Am I the only one who thinks “it’s big, mean, and refuses to be stopped” sounds kind of silly when coupled with a pig who has clearly stopped of its own volition?
These are obviously for people who want to play Hawkeye from the Avengers movie.
In that vein, IF I already owned a bow ‘n’ arrows I might buy them, then spend a happy afternoon destroying watermelons while pretending to save the Earth from an alien army.
But I don’t, so I won’t.
It’s a stupid, impractical, dangerous and useless item that will be illegal as soon as anyone at the STF realizes these things are technically firearms being sold without tax, FFLs or other such things.
Yet my inner redneck wants me to buy a few before they are gone. . .
Am I the only one creeped out by the video showing her loading the thing by holding her hand over the barrel?
Nope. Not the only one.
I guess pierced hands are in, these days.