McAirrow ® Classic / junior
Operating instruction

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I wrote this operating instruction for a still young friend of McAirrows. If you are already an adult and you mean, that I should not tell you all these simple things, I give to consider that such operating instructions make a lot of work, two different versions still more than one. Thus:

You have now a genuine McAirrow ® from Hegmans - free inventions . The 'weapon' is not a toy, but a precise sport device, with which you could also hurt yourself or other ones. Therefore be careful and behave in such a way, that nobody will be hurt. Observe the following rules:

  1. Don't be alone for the first time.
  2. Be sure that you do not see any human being or animal (except mosquitoes) in shooting direction.
  3. Turn yourself and the McAirrow ® toward the target
  4. Depending upon distance pump twice or more often. More details on it you can read further down. If you pump too often, something terrible could occur (Classic: Pump never more often than ten times / junior: Pump never more often than three times). Pay attention to pump very uniformly up and down, so that you always have the same quantity of air. When pumping hold the McAirrow ® with the left hand (put your left hand at the pump) and pump with your right hand.
  5. Always put the arrow in the same position on to the blowpipe (e.g. mark your arrow with a red dot, so that you can easily repeat the same position). Make sure that the arrow aims forward and downward, while you 'load the gun'. Do not attempt to plug something else (e.g. grains of rice) into the blowpipe instead of putting an arrow over it. In this case your McAirrow ® will be broken soon.
  6. Hold your the McAirrow ® as long as you aim only directed to the target or to the ground.
  7. If you are outside set up your target at the ground, so that your arrow will always fly diagonally downward. Think of the fact, that your arrow could fly more than 100 yards, if you would aim diagonally upward - then it would be lost!
  8. Always think of the fact, that women (e.g. your mother) are more fearful than other human beings. Therefore take your mother with you occasionally to show her, how carefully you handle your McAirrow.
What you need and how you make it for the first time

On which targets you can aim, if you are inside or in your father's office

Inside you must take an arrow with rubber suction cup ('indoor arrow'). As a target you can use all stable, smooth surfaces, which your mother permits you. In addition, you can paint a target on a white tile (30 x 30 cm). Put a transparent envelope foil from the stationer's shop upon your picture, so that the wet rubber suction cup cannot smear the colour.

If you feel all this to be too complicated and you are already a millionaire, order a target for inside with us.

On which which targets you can aim , if you are outside or in the cellar

For an arrow with softdarttips fasten a piece of carpet with the rubberized side to you on a piece of foam rubber or an ISO mat and put it at a wall in your cellar. You can also go into your garden or to your neighbour's meadow, if you asked him for the permission. Remember, you are a beginner. So do not take a too small piece of carpet in order to hit your target, because if the arrow hits on a wall or a stone, it gets broken.

With pins you can fasten a paper disk or also a balloon on the carpet. Now your target is ready for use. If you shoot outside, you also can take pieces of polystyrene or paperboard, which fall down, if you hit them. Place this kind of targets always down in the grass.

If you feel all this to be too complicated and you are already a millionaire, order a target for outside with us.

Your arrows

Your arrows are made of plastic straws, a layer transparent package tape, a 'point' and two or more 'feathers' for the stable flight. The arrows's weight is approximately two grams (30 grains) or somewhat more (the 'Indoor' arrow is about 60 grains). If a straw breaks, you can get a new one in every subsidiary of the company, which sells Hamburgers. The CEO of this company told me to use the company's brand under no circumstances , so that I should not tell you, that their name also begins with Mc......

Before you make an arrow, test the straw, you want to use. If it is straight (roll it over the desk top) and you can put it onto the blowpipe easily, take it. Some straws are crooked or too thin. For greater durability use a layer transparent package tape (width 50mm) and wrap the straw lengthwise with it. Put the straw over a small rod of wood (6mm diameter) and roll it over the paste side of the package tape. For this work you should use a sm ooth surface, e.g. a pane or a mirror. Please let the rod in the straw for all further work.

To buy feathers go to the archery shop for particular high precision. As feathers you can also cut off seven small sloped (45 degrees) pieces from a plastic straw (length 2cm / diameter 5mm). Paste them at one end of the straw always exactly next to each other. Use adhesive tape (carpet tape) to do so. A little quantity of adhesive at both ends of the 'feathers' prevents loosing them after a few shots. We have stated that such arrows fly better than all other constructions.

If you do not like to use 'do it yourself' points, you can buy softdarttips in a toy shop. You put one centimeter of a suitable transparent plastic tube (diameter 6mm) into the front end of the arrow and then turn the softdarttip inside. The finished arrow then weighs around 30 grain or somewhat more .

Be sure to take arrows with rubber suctions cups for 'Indoor' shooting ('indoor' means that you would use the smooth door of your refrigerator as a target) . A 'Indoor' arrow weighs 60 grains or somewhat more.

More details (pictures included) you find at: http://www.hegmans.de/theo/shop_e/how_to.htm

If you feel all this to be too complicated and you are already a millionaire, order your arrows with us.

Aiming and shooting

Now you must listen very well in order to understand everything: Take your stand five yards away from the target. Make five very large steps or borrow a folding rule from your father. Mark the position and always shoot from there. Pump twice and load, as you read it above. Aim at your target over the rear multi-hole sight and the front eye-bolt.

Pull the trigger always as uniformly as possible. Put the McAirrow ® away and check, where the arrow has hit your target (if you do not find it in the rubber, you just need more exercise). Practice for a while. If the arrow always misses the target even after a longer time of practice, you should change the setting of your rear sight:

arrow is 5 cm higher than center of target: adjust rear sight 2 mm down
arrow is 5 cm lower than center of target: adjust rear sight 2 mm up
arrow is 5 cm left from center of target: adjust rear sight 2 mm to the right
arrow is 5 cm right from center of target: adjust rear sight 2 mm to the left

Adjust the rear sight only if you are sure that you did not totter or move while aiming. When first shooting you can put the McAirrow ® on a chair to prevent tottering while shooting.

If you have enough practice, you hit your target with the model Classic even over larger distances. For a ten meters distance you pump four times (15yards=six times / 20yards=eight times). Use the same hole of the rear sight for distances up to 20 yards. How often you have to pump exactly at a certain distance and whether you must adjust the rear sight or use the next hole of it, you will find out yourself after a time. A lot of practice, experience and in worst case your father can and will help (maybe sometimes also your mother can help). For longer distances (20 - 50 yards) you should note every valid combination of rear-sight-hole (hole spacing 5mm) and number of pumps, which let you hit the center of target. You can fill out a table, as you see beneath this. If you are older and more experienced, you will call all this ballistics.

How the McAirrow Classic shoots with 30 grain arrows
(softdarttips)
 How the McAirrow Classic shoots with 60 grain 'Indoor'-arrows
Distance
(yards) 		Number
of pumps
 Which hole of the rear-sight to use for aiming Number
of pumps 		Which hole of the rear-sight to use
5 2 1 3 1
10 4 1 7 1
15 6 1 too far 'for Indoor'-arrows
20 8 1
25 8 2
30 8 3
35 8 / 9 4
40 9 5
45 11 5
50 too far in many cases

What you still should know
Your arrows are never quite alike.Therefore it is quite probable, that two arrows hit different. If you are already a professional (that is, you shoot 4 inch groups at 10 yards), then take always the same arrow for a certain adjustment of the rear sight. Particularly at longer distances two different arrows fly rather differently. Outside, the wind causes some problems for the light-weight arrows. Take your McAirrow outside for longer distances only at very calm days.

Even the management of HEGMANS-free inventions had a lot of fun, to see bursting an air balloon at a 50 yards distance. If you practice, you can also have the same experience.

Technical data

McAirrow ® , the blowpipe with handpump for plastic straws from Hegmans - free inventions
length: ca. 800 mm arrow weight : 30 grain
('Indoor' -arrow: 60 grain)
weight: ca. 850 Gramm power: ca. 0.5 - 3 Joule
(0,4 - 2,4 ftlb)
diameter
of the blowpipe: 		5.6 mm
air consumption
for one shot: 		150 ccm accuracy: 1 cm at 5 yards / 3 cm at 10 yards / 7 cm at 25 yards (only arrows with softdarttips)
velocity
V1: 		30-60 yards/second
(only arrows with softdarttips) 		largest range: about100 yards
(only arrows with softdarttips)

Accessoires / service

You can make yourself targets, arrows and all other things you ever could need. If you are already a millionaire, you can order this or that with us. But be careful with your millions. You could need them for other useful things.

A word to your (german) parents

In Germany we have very draconic weapon laws. A McAirrow is not a weapon in the sense of german law. Nevertheless all friends of McAirrows should observe the above mentioned rules to avoid accidents. We are not responsible for destructions that result from improper treatment of our products. Therefore, please read our directions carefully.

Other products from Hegmans - free inventions

There are many different types of McAirrows ®, and I will develop new ones forever. If you want, have a look at 'www.hegmans.de'. But these types (e. g. 'McAirrow Soda') have astronomic prices. If you want to tell your individual McAirrow-story to your friends, you can send me an e-mail. I will publish your story at 'www.hegmans.de'.

Reports and tips from the scene

Hegmans - free inventions, International Department
(Julia Hegmans, Minster / Ohio / USA)
Here in the USA in Oak Brook, llinois every year we have the McAirrow Cup with thousands of users and hundreds of millions of spectators. Beside the traditional 'McAirrow target' there are disciplines like 'McAirrow hunting' , 'McAirrow gulf', 'McAirrow gate' as well as 'McAirrow parcours'. All these games are of largest popularity and find great interest even at the TV. In particular 'McAirrow hunting', where a player uses a remote control to move a model car with balloon as a rabbit, is the

I wish you a lot of fun

Theo Hegmans
Dorfstrasse 108
D - 47647 Kerken
-Germany-

phone / fax: 0049 2833 7772
internet: www.hegmans.de




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