Mussy X-BOW attachable - Rhinolectric Pyrotechnic Telegraph for signaling

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**WORK IN PROGRESS Mussy is a prolific designer and he has offered up an outstanding compact survival bow called the X-Bow that is printable. He has started a contest for attachments for his X-Bow and this is my entry. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6717640/files It is a compact flare signal device in the spirit of the Coston Night Signal of 1859 that was used by US naval forces to coordinate night time maneuvers during the Civil War and later by the forerunner of the U.S. Coast Guard in rescue operations. This is not a firearm and cannot be converted to one. It attaches to the X-Bow and uses a tri color flare system as the original Coston signal flare did. With the 3 colors being used to encode one of 10 numbers which could then be correlated in a code book. This X-Bow attachment bolts right on to the picatinny rail and uses commercial pyrotechnic e-matches to launch the color of your choice into the air. Imagine this, you are in the back country of Alaska in late fall hunting moose with your Mussy X-Bow. You hike down the mountainside and into the valley below from the lodge you and friends have rented for the week. You agreed to return in 3 days and to text on your cell phone or satellite phone if you have any trouble. Half a half day into the trek You spot a huge bull moose with a 60 inch spread. As you stealthily approach with your Mussy X-bow you ready your shot. Then, from the alders to your left you hear a chuff and something breaking saplings . Just as you turn a monstrous Grizzly bear breaks out in a rush for you. Jaws open, nostrils flared and in a blink he covers 40 meters and at 10 meters you loose your arrow from your Mussy X-Bow - penetrating the bear's eye, and brain and even as he dies his mass crumples atop you pinning your legs, crushing your electronics and dazing you. When you finally gain your senses you realize that that no one will even start looking for you for another 2 and half days and you have not way to text, call or reach them as all of your electronics were crushed beneath the bruins mass. But wait, you remembered then that you had the foresight to build and outfit your adventure bow with a Rhinolectric Pyrotechnic Telegraph. And so you aim your X-bow skyward and glorious light springs forth from your X-Bow as you signal for help. A minute passes and you see the answering flares signaled from up the mountain. You know that you will be safe and soon enjoying more adventures with your Mussy X-Bow ! There is a readme file within the download with lots more information. And because this is a contest that is judged by likes, be take a second to drop one for me if you like what you see in the project. ***edit 9/6/2024 - removed switch box file v1 and replaced with switch box file v1.1 as and early version was uploaded originally that did not have room for wiring to pass from switches to the main body channel. Please delete v1, and download v1.1 if you previously downloaded.

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