wikiHow Revisited: How to ACTUALLY Make a Nerf Gun Out of Household Items 

You are never to old to play with nerf, LEGO, and hot wheels

Brett: making the crossbow knowing he will have to run it in a war now, deludes himself "its not that bad"

Run the functional ones in a war!

The crossbow isn’t half bad... it’s almost war worthy. 🧐 beret effectively running it? Perhaps.

The crossbow one is easy simple and creative. It also easily be improved using chopsticks. Or the main body use a paint stick which would be incredibly long giving you way more room to build up power.

Roses are red The sun is shining My mental health Is rapidly declining

I THOUGHT I WAS WATCHING WIKIHOW, NOT 5 MINUTE CRAFTS, XD

That one dislike is the person who took the “I hate you guys.” seriously.

I'm going to make one that's at least a metre long now. Every Caliburn will whimper at the sight of it.

Brett’s editing is getting to Walcom levels of goodness

Another nerf gun thats easy 1: work until you get 5 dollars. 2: ask mum to take you to walmart. 3: Buy A Jolt

2:51 When you build the first one and it doesn’t work

Someone on Wikihow actually recommended this video to make a crossbow.

Okay that rubber band crossbow is actually pretty awesome. With a slightly more secure firing channel some kinda pistol grip and a doubled up band I think I could actually have some fun with it. Might have to try that now

12:26 I remember one of my friends showing me how to make one of those using pencils, along with a bow. It was short lived, we shot someone and they started bleeding so we couldn’t use it anymore.

If you don't run the bottle-pipe in the first post apocalypse war, I'm unsubbing!

* heh * A nerfing battle where everyone uses one of those rubber-band crossbows..... (All built with the exact same materials.)

Tutorial for the working homemade gun is at 12:37 if any one was wondering. By the way great vid I’m bout to build one of these.

I was wondering when you were gonna make another one of these 😂 these videos are great. 👍

I'm going to have to take this and expand on it even more. I want a full size version!

I made one of these bows, i wrote "nerf paperstrike" on each side, made a sling mount and a hop up out of more paper and hot glue

They have 19 Co-authors. But you have 22K Loyal fans. :)

11 dislikes? The sense of humor train TOTALLY bypassed those stations.

Love how you put all instructions for blasters you have bought up on the wall like it's newspaper clippings

Waiting for the inevitable short-dart mag fed paper crossbow.

stringers are underrated; I cant explain it but my crossbolt has always somehow been the most accurate of my blasters

Am I the only one that could listen to his voice reading instructions all day?

i had this blowgun that was super accurate, and left welts if fired too harshly. i think it was a bit too large of a pvc pipe, because sometimes air would just go out of it with the dart falling out.

Had to hit that notification bell because I missed this one! Great video!

Never thought i would see a return of the wikihow i suggested xD

And I'm glad wiki how Came up with a different instruction of how to make a Nerf gun out of household items

I'm going to get a bayonet for one of my nerf guns and I'm going to charge the enemy yelling. Tennōheika Banzai!

You should run rival mags in a war i have gotten some kills with 12 round mags

Im going to have to make one of those crossbows now. This should be fun!

This was great. I really like the crossbow

An unexpected surprise, but a welcome one

this has given great knowledge to my finite brain. the wisdom is infinite

Hey after a few years I'm back and I tried this and it works! I got alot of use out this.

Once hooked a PVC pipe to an air compressor, shoved darts in the end, and boom, I lost a whole lot of darts.

The instructions on the left of the chronobarrel look like the demon days album cover

The paper one works so well! I just made it and my life is complete.

I just LOVE the way you say need darts

I didn’t have any hot glue so I had to use tape and electrical tape. It came out good though.

i have an idea..... a nerf war using only blasters made with household items....

When you forgot where you put your emergency nerf stash key and your house is being stormed by a stealth squad at night

You can connect the pvc to a stomp rocket tube

I made 4 versions of the crossbow now I have probably the best one yet it’s called the popsicle stick. I made a handle out a popsicle stick and a grip. It has a catch to well catch the rubber band it’s made out of zip ties. I also put barbecue sticks in the front bow arms and glue the ends together. Then, I put popsicle stick on the clothespin.

The first one, not only could you use it as a club. You could use it as an under-barrel shotgun!

My good sir not only does the tape stop the dart from falling into the bottle it also constricts the air to increase pressure

You could replace the pieces of paper in the crossbow with stronger pvc pipe, and then use cardboard binder (you can get this from your nearby Tesco’s, Asda’s, or Walmart if you live in america for around £1-2 ($1-3))

I think what they tried going for was to have a shell around the “ blaster with the card board, Basically just the water bottle a pipe but with the nozzle, probably still wouldn’t work

"The faster you squeeze, the farther it flies" Me: *slams water bottle with my fist*

2 liter bottle dart “blaster”?

you are the goat beret. dont let these things get to you. ppl jus dum sometimes. hope i made your day

The reason it doesn’t work is not because there’s not enough airflow. Those spray nozzles work by putting pressure in the tank/hopper whatever it is. Increased pressure causes the water to get out through that tube you always see in spray bottles. I straight up just taped the whole bottle on and it works perfect.

I am so totally making that paper crossbow tomorrow

Beret for president

The crossbow is actually good if you make it correctly, highly recommend making it yourself.

2:51 dio when jotaro moves in TIme Stop

the homemade nerf crossbow is so awesome i love how you can use the close pin thing to easily shoot the nerf dart instead of manually pulling and realeasing i think thats awesome

BERET IS MY FAVOURITE NERF RU-vidR!!! (after coop)

That last one is coooolll

I hear Macgyver is arranging a funeral for all the ducktape brutally destroyed because of wikihow article!

I made the crossbow and it worked pretty good! It has some range on it and the darts fly in an arch. I also added a little grip beneath the clothespin as a grip for my hand but overall it worked pretty good!

this ACTUALY worked!

if you use a rubber band and a pencil, put one end of the rubber band over one of your thumbs, a pencil on the other end like a slingshot, the pencil travels really far. Also do you have any replacement ideas for the clipper?

The original is like the nerf equivalent to the ether portal in Minecraft. Excitement quickly followed by disappointment.

I liked the 2018 one better because it wasn't 2020 yet

U could use a turkey basted that is preferably round in size and is rubbery all around for the subject#2

Here’s another one. Go in Amazon. Look up “Drain blaster” and buy one it’s ab $20. Then buy a piece of half inch pvc and tape it over the nozzle of the drain blaster. Pump it up ab 12 times and it’ll shoot farther than any stock nerf blaster. The longer the pvc the better it shoots, and the more darts you can use. If you pump it up to 20 times it can go thru cardboard. You’re welcome

I do have to say, I'd love to see the naysayers on your original video make the thing themselves and show us how well it works with videos of their own. Awesome video, Bret!

The wikihow homemade ‘nerf gun’ that Beret made looks like a welrod pistol and a greaser hybrid when finished Like if you agree

i feel like in the group of nerf youtubers i watch, beret is kinda calming to watch btw would you run your homemade nerf gun in a war?

Meet the amazing engineer

Me after running out of Nerf darts while using the bottle PVC: *Ooga Booga*

You want me to make my own variation of the last one? Fair warning, household materials for me isn't the same as household materials for other people. I wonder if I have enough solder to braze 2 copper tubes together instead of using paper tubes for the body. Should have enough bungee cords.

There's this awesome channel I used to watch called "Tubalatudo", it's all in portuguese, but he does some amazing paper guns using the same idea of rolled sheets of paper, definitely worth checking if you have some time, I was never able to build one of those, but I was like 10 or something

I'm pretty sure it still wouldn't work, but I think the dart is supposed to fit snugly in the end so that the pressure pops it off. Still, not enough power I bet.

A party popper gun could work as a cylinder if you make a nerf revolver! Saw a video where someone made a really nice revolver out of a party popper, pvc pipe, some glue, and a piece of scrap wood (carved it into a handle)

I think the way the blaster would work is to pull the nozzle trigger over and over which releases air into the PVC and once the air pressure is strong enough to where there’s too much air in the pvc, the dart will pop out, (essentially a champagne bottle)

"It's not that bad." Ok, but would you run it in a war? Pics or it didn't happen.

FOR REAL this works !!

A updated version by you?

as somebody who has made an artical on wikihow, the reason it sucks, is because you make an article, you get a .1% chance somebody in the wikihow team finds it, and frankensteins it with images and makes it unrecognisable. proof: www.wikihow.com/Make-Instant-Noodles

We love, love this: this IS us making our first and last pumpkin launcher. It was sad. And now we are going to make a nerf launcher. What's going to happen?

I think I might use that last one for my engineering assignment

Can you get bert to do one of these wikihow videos? Also for the water bottle blowgun, don't tape over the tube to stop the dart, use a wire/string across the middle of the tube for better airflow. Not trying to be "that guy", but a super loose barrel fit HAMP needs all the help it can get.

You can find a type of pipe that's about the size of the hole in a nerf dart (I don't have a dart or the pipe on hand to check), but their are s few issues, 1. That type of pipe is called a supply line not a pipe, 2. I's not exactly a household item as they're often replaced with a type of stainless steel tubing, and 3. They aren't PVC and are actually very flexible and not rigid. Another thing is that there are actually two kinds of pipe called "PVC". There's actual PVC pipe, which is white in color, and CPVC pipe which is slightly yellowish in color. They are functionally identical, however CPVC is slightly smaller than PVC, but are listed as the same size (IE a 1/2' PVC pipe would be slightly larger than a 1/2" CPVC pipe). My guess is they where talking about CPVC pipe in the article, which might be just small enough that the dart gets a better seal. Maybe.

The last one is actually good

Looks good bro don’t listen to the haters

Ooh boi the war gameplay is going to be sweeeeet

a 1/2" pvc: 10$ a nerf Triad:9$

I’d love to make an afternoon project out of making one of those crossbows with three pieces of pvc instead of paper. Use two for the dart track and bend one with a heat gun into bow arms, then connect many rubber bands. Maybe even paint it to look like wood? Could be cool!

dive back in, one more time, out of household items, should be fun... what could go wrong?? hold my beer y'all watch this

Those push tube water guns? Attach PVC and instead of bottle, it uses a push mechanism, and it uses a vacuum system to inflate, might be a bit long tho

Couldn't wait for this video! Loved it do much!

I see a blaster challenge at the next world wide mod party with this mod. Could bring everyone together in beret goodness

Dude... if we ever get to have wars again, I want to see you killin fools with both of those. PaNNC in da house!!! 😂

If we're going to make a nerf crossbow, we all know who needs to be in here.... Bret! Can you get Joerg Sprave to collab and show us some features? Would be super insanely awesome!

actually, you should use a soda bottle for better strength on the thing so it doesnt crinkle easily and doesnt make as much sound