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Equipment & Gear => All Other Gear => Topic started by: NOCK NOCK on June 26, 2015, 10:48:25 AM

Title: Homemade gear
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 26, 2015, 10:48:25 AM: Anybody else make some of their own gear? Lets see your ideas. Here are a couple of mine.
Drag ropes with PVC handles, easy on the hands and a good grip.

I am also teaching myself to weld, and getting better, have built several trail cam boxes with hinged lids. Next project, I want to weld a hanging tree stand.
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: luvmystang67 on June 26, 2015, 10:50:06 AM: Tag.

I've built an Ozonics and a meat cooler at my house. Also done some low level gunsmithing on my muzzleloader, nothing too technical. Probably going to make a hitch hoist next and a mobile meat cooler. :tup:

I'll try to post pics if I get around to it.
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: arrowflinger on June 26, 2015, 11:11:05 AM: I've made a couple of deer feeders.
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: Old Man Yager on June 26, 2015, 11:45:51 AM: I McGeyvered a new spring for the shell ejector on my old Enfield 30/06. Used a piece of spring from a pen. Does that count? 😳
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 26, 2015, 12:38:14 PM: Quote from: Old Man Yager on June 26, 2015, 11:45:51 AM
I McGeyvered a new spring for the shell ejector on my old Enfield 30/06. Used a piece of spring from a pen. Does that count? 😳

Sure, The pin that holds the firing mechanism in also works as a a shear pin for some outboards
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: coachcw on June 26, 2015, 12:41:31 PM: I made a sight wedge for my re curve to compensate for bow cant .
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: huntinluva on June 30, 2015, 08:32:26 AM: We made our toilet for camp....old plastic patio end table with the top cut out and toilet seat adhered to it. It is a thing of beauty :chuckle:
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: zike on June 30, 2015, 09:01:03 AM: I made a bunch of stabilizers when I was into target archery. Golf club shafts worked great, and they were longer then standard ones. You could rest the bow on it when you were waiting for you turn to shoot. The range owner wasn't too pleased when i sold a few to some of the shooters.
Title: Re: Homemade gear
Post by: Fl0und3rz on June 30, 2015, 09:11:51 AM: Quote from: huntinluva on June 30, 2015, 08:32:26 AM
We made our toilet for camp....old plastic patio end table with the top cut out and toilet seat adhered to it. It is a thing of beauty :chuckle:

Until it brittle fractures in the subfreezing temperatures and you fall into a pungy pit filled with plastic shards and yesterday's deposits.

:puke:

We went with wood.