Talked with an older cousin today. His dad was a brother to my dad. Uncle Dan was deadly with a slingshot. Dad was a master tool an die maker. Dad made uncle Dan an alumiumn sling shot with surgical tubing tied with string from the newspaper. Uncle Dan went out back and knocked a can all,over the yard. Well today my cousin told me he was giving that slingshot to me. The sling shot is well over 60 years old. I'm making a trip soon to see my cousin.
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carpriver
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As a kid my cousins and I made sling shot from leather thongs a piece of leather. we could hit birds on the electric lines and killed a few rabbits and squirrels. We started shooting at the end of the barns and soon we could knock a can off a fence post. Wrist rockets had nothing on us. A sling, sling is easy to hide in your pocket that a Y sling shot.
Here's a fellow who knows what he is doing with a slingshot: Carolina Camera: The Sling Shot Man - YouTube
30-30remchester
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When I was young and cute I lived 6 miles from town. There was 7 houses near ours and all were filled with boys my age. We all wore cut off levis, black high top Keds, white T shirts and every one of us had a wrist rocket slingshot tucked into the rear pocket. When some of us got caught doing something the adults thought was not conducive to a civilized world, they would take our slingshots away for a week. Who ever was defenseless felt like we had lost a leg. We all pooled our money and bought a spare wrist rocket. This was kept in one of forts to be used secretly by the wrongfully punished.
Fishinfool
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When I was a kid, I had a Wrist Rocket. I used an over sized leather pouch, and used to load #4 lead shot in the pouch. It was deadly on small birds at close range.
I still use a slingshot today, while deer hunting. I use it to toss scent covered rocks downwind of my stand, and to toss rocks into isolated patches of woods to move deer.
Larry
I still use a slingshot today, while deer hunting. I use it to toss scent covered rocks downwind of my stand, and to toss rocks into isolated patches of woods to move deer.
Larry
I started out with home-made sling shots and then moved up to a Wammo and felt like I was on top of the world. Wore out so many bands with that one. Use to be great to go into any filling station in town and ask for old inner tubes and be given all you wanted to cut into bands. Yes kids, car tires all used to have inner tubes just like your bikes. Got pretty deadly with it on. You felt like you could take on the world with a sling shot in your back pocket and a jack knife in your front pocket. Later moved up to the wrist rocket which was good but lacked the grit of the Wammo. Now I am looking at getting a new one from simple shot and setting up a range in the basement to alternate with the air pistol for keeping the eyes sharp in the winter when the wind chill gets down there at the range.
Get a load of this.....
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Rufus Hudson in NC.
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Rufus Hudson in NC.
Anybody ever try...
Anybody ever try the old 'David and Goliath' slingshot? I made one out of an old catchers mitt that I got pretty good with.
Anybody ever try the old 'David and Goliath' slingshot? I made one out of an old catchers mitt that I got pretty good with.
To quote a famous sportsman, hey, it's dejas vu all over again!Rufus Hudson in NC.
(Rufus Hussey. Don't get that guy mad!
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bigwheelzip
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There's a fella named Joerg Sprave who has a lot of fun inventing oddball slingshot concepts.
JoergSprave
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JoergSprave
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As I live in the peoples republic of NY, many of the magnum type singers are not legal here.
Back in the early 60s I had my fathers friend ( a super handy fellow) build me one of his super sling shots. It was made out of 3/8 steel square stock. He also used a special inner tube, which he cut down to make the stretchable part.. He was deadly with that, actually shot a couple rabbits with it. It was very powerful and had a long range. Much better than anything I ever seen.
Of course me being a "rather adventures young kid" I did things with that thing that were not nice and in many cases illegal
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The way the high school I went to was laid out there was a 1 story addition jutting out about 150' and 50' wide, and it divided the parking lot. That slingshot had enough power to lob cherry bombs/ashcans over the addition and into the teachers parking lot on the other side. We did that a few times and they never figured out how it was done or who did it.
We used to take it to the shoreline and lob cherry bombs into the water to bother a curmudgeon that had a camp a 1/4 mile down the road. It tended to look like depth charges going off. That was the last incident and my father confiscated it and his friend was told no more slingshots for me.
Back in the early 60s I had my fathers friend ( a super handy fellow) build me one of his super sling shots. It was made out of 3/8 steel square stock. He also used a special inner tube, which he cut down to make the stretchable part.. He was deadly with that, actually shot a couple rabbits with it. It was very powerful and had a long range. Much better than anything I ever seen.
Of course me being a "rather adventures young kid" I did things with that thing that were not nice and in many cases illegal
.
The way the high school I went to was laid out there was a 1 story addition jutting out about 150' and 50' wide, and it divided the parking lot. That slingshot had enough power to lob cherry bombs/ashcans over the addition and into the teachers parking lot on the other side. We did that a few times and they never figured out how it was done or who did it.
We used to take it to the shoreline and lob cherry bombs into the water to bother a curmudgeon that had a camp a 1/4 mile down the road. It tended to look like depth charges going off. That was the last incident and my father confiscated it and his friend was told no more slingshots for me.
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Old TexMex
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They're illegal to import to Australia! They call them "shanghai's" down there, and they're downright illegal to possess in most states, unless you have a permit issued by some minister of idiocy and anti-fun.
Ask LH: Why Can't I Import A Slingshot? | Lifehacker Australia
Ask LH: Why Can't I Import A Slingshot? | Lifehacker Australia
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Back in the day before wrist rockets, packaged steel balls, surgical tubing, etc. the big thing was finding good inner tubes and good ammunition. Anybody else remember using your plain marbles, looking for good rocks and salvaging stretchable inner tubes that had been patched a million times? The perfect Y sticks, rocks or marbles, salvaged inner tubes, were all items you got on your own or traded for, no parents or money was involved. So if your sling shot was confiscated you went to your stash hiding place, got the parts, or maybe another already made, and stayed away from adults with the new one till the grace period was over !!
I have spent many happy spring mornings on the back porch with a cup of coffee, a sling shot and a pail of acorns chasing squirrels around the yard.
M E Morrison
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I knew these as slings - sling shots had elastic of some type.
I made one, but never got very accurate with it - but I sure could lob a rock a LONG ways!
M E Morrison
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Big Cholla
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I spent a year on Amchitka Island, Alaska as a Construction Engineer. We couldn't have firearms or pellet guns. BUT, we could have wrist rockets. We found that the seaweed covered beaches had lots of Norway Rats. I found the site of the WW II airplane engine rebuild shop and a big pile of rusted steel ball bearings. The vast majority were about 1/4" dia. Absolutely perfect wrist rocket ammo for use on the rats. Of the dedicated 'rat' hunters, I was about in the middle for kills. In a year my total was 38. The best score was by a big fellow that used extra heavy surgical rubber bands. He could kill a good 20 yds. further out than any of the rest of us. His total was right at 60 rats.
To this day a Wrist Rocket hangs at the door of my work shop with a few marbles waiting the appropriate target. .....
To this day a Wrist Rocket hangs at the door of my work shop with a few marbles waiting the appropriate target. .....
MCorps0311
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I made slingshot's as a kid,but truth be told,I never hit what I was tying to hit with them or home made flips. Got a few butt whooping for breaking some neghbors windows that mother had to replace.
CW Spook
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As a kid, I started with a WhamO, then moved up to a Wrist Rocket. Our next door neighbor had a machine shop and he'd cut up bearing races and save the ball bearings for my brother and I to use as ammo. Cherry bombs made good ammo too, but you needed an assistant to light 'em.
