I would like to know how many people here are effecient with wrist rockets (slingshots)? I have two that I use an practice with about once a week. I have practiced with glass marbles, stainless steel ball bearings, 3/!6" to 3/8", I am good out to about 50 to 75 feet. My best is about 3" where I have put 5 balls in a 3" circle but I keep trying. They are very deadly and very silent, like an arrow just have to be closer.This is just for my information since knives you have to be extremely close and are so messy..
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troy fairweather
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I keep one in my hunting pack for them pesky squirrels lol.
armoredman
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I haven't heard it called that since the 80s. Only one I ever had my mother confiscated. 
theotherwaldo
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I use buck shot and used fishing weights in mine.
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I use mine to get the occasional rat in the yard without breaking out my .22 and CB rounds. If I really try, I can keep all the marbles I use in a roughly hand sized group at fifty feet.
https://sausa.com/product-category/wrist-rocket-sling-shots/wrist-rockets/I haven't heard it called that since the 80s. Only one I ever had my mother confiscated.
troy fairweather
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Mine I like 32-36 cal lead balls, it's just the cheap daisy i tried some 440 balls but didn't seem to have the power and dropped quick after 30 feet of so.
I do need to practice but can't were I live I still can get close to a squirrel to scare it off if needed lol.
.308 Norma
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I use glass marbles in mine. I can hit a tin can on or beside the garden fence (about 20 yards) with it almost every time - depending on the size of the tin can. If the “tin can” is the 30 gallon trash can we use as a burn barrel, I seldom miss. But if the “tin can” is Campbell’s soup can that I stuck on top of a garden fence post, I’ll have punched 20-30 holes through it with my Sheridan “Blue Streak” air rifle before I ever hit it once with my “Wrist Rocket” slingshot.
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theotherwaldo
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Yep, but I can't put my Blue Streak in my back pocket... .I use glass marbles in mine. I can hit a tin can on, or beside the garden fence (about 20 yards) with it almost every time - depending on the size of the tin can. If the “tin can” is the 30 gallon trash can we use as a burn barrel, I seldom miss. But if the “tin can” is Campbell’s soup can that I stuck on top of a garden fence post, I’ll have punched 20-30 holes through it with my Sheridan “Blue Streak” air rifle before I ever hit it once with my “Wrist Rocket” slingshot.
Bazoo
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I do decent with one. I can get a coke can at 15-20 yards no problem. I use lead round balls of approximately .311 diameter. I have a mould for it and cast them from ww alloy normally.
The Glockodile
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This got me interested 
What's a really good one with a folding forearm brace?
What's a really good one with a folding forearm brace?
guyfromohio
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Had one as a kid before I was allowed to have a BB gun. I became pretty good with it and often outshot my brother as we walked the tracks.
desmobob
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I had a top-of-the-line model when I was a young teenager. It could be broken down for transport/storage, and had some neat features, like little projecting soft plastic pieces that cushioned the tubes where they were attached to the frame on release, and an ammo pocket that had a self-centering feature. I can't remember the brand, but I really liked it. It got lost in a river.
I tried to order a new one a few years back and I was unable to because they apparently are prohibited in New York State. I have a concealed carry permit, but can't buy a slingshot...
I tried to order a new one a few years back and I was unable to because they apparently are prohibited in New York State. I have a concealed carry permit, but can't buy a slingshot...
Ranger99
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Trumark used to sell the good ones
like what I have here
I think they're out of business.
I don't like the ones with a flexible flap
of rubber for the wrist brace
like what I have here
I think they're out of business.
I don't like the ones with a flexible flap
of rubber for the wrist brace
Ranger99
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I haven't looked lately, but everywhere
here that sells guns has slingshots and
replacement tube/pouch assembly's
and ball bearings, etc.
The last time I needed a replacement,
I bought several. They'll all deteriorate
over time. These last sets came with a
little towelette with 303 Aerospace
Protectant to treat the tubing before use.
That stuff is pretty good and I've used
it before
here that sells guns has slingshots and
replacement tube/pouch assembly's
and ball bearings, etc.
The last time I needed a replacement,
I bought several. They'll all deteriorate
over time. These last sets came with a
little towelette with 303 Aerospace
Protectant to treat the tubing before use.
That stuff is pretty good and I've used
it before
The Glockodile
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Funny - I have the exact same opinions regarding the flexible rubber flap over the forearm brace. That's why I never bought the ones by Barnett or Daisy.
Is the handle on yours solid or hollow (with a pocket for ammunition)?
The older solid ones are the ones to have...
I think I'll settle for this one.
It looks like a non - folder, but it'll do...
The Glockodile
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The problem I had with buying spares was exactly that...
They had a very finite shelf life.
The rubber would rot regardless of what I did.
So I'd end up buying replacements only as I needed them - and hoped that I didn't get some old stock.
Had one just like that growing up. Only difference was mine was black. Found it after my grandparents passed. Packed it up haven’t seen it since. Might be time to dig it out. And gift it to my son.
Ranger99
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I hunt where there's a tattletale crow problem, and an inconsiderate neighbor
hates hunting and lets her large dogs
roam. They get a non lethal marble to
urge them to roam elsewhere.
I have folders and non folders
The folders have the trapdoor for spare
ammo, but I don't utilize it
Too rattlely and noisy
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I have had mine for close to 46 years now. I used it quite often when i worked in Alaska for potting grouse and snow shoe hares. You could get pretty close to those critters, and the sling shot did the trick with no noise or fuss. Had many trail side lunches of fresh grouse roasted on a spit over a fire. As a kid we used to use our sling shots to shoot bull frogs.
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