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Anyone have any recommendations on a decent slingshot? I've recently been playing around with my nephew's :) and remember how fun & useful they can be. I probably wouldn't be doing too much with it other than plinking, but would like to go after the occasional squirrel/rabbit if my aim gets good enough.

I've heard that Barnett makes some decent ones, but then some other people around the 'net don't like them so much.

What say you?
 
Look at anything posted by JoergS here. He's the slingshot guru of slingshot gurus.
 
hso said:
Look at anything posted by JoergS here. He's the slingshot guru of slingshot gurus.
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Thanks for the reminder HSO, I knew I'd read some of JoergS's posts here before, but couldn't remember the name. I've been reading up on some of his posts now :)

Is there a quality slingshot around that incorporates a wrist brace? I've tried a few of the Y designs, but for the life of me can't get the velocity/accuracy that I can with a wrist braced one.
 
I have about a dozen or so slingshots. Wrist rockets, tree branch Ys, a couple of home made steel versions, two of the Dankung style cord wrapped steel pieces, and the three that I like and shoot the best.....a simple flat band over the top wooden sling by Bunny Buster and two of the molded plastic flat band side shooters by Pocket Predator.
I buy 11mm marbles from McGills Warehouse for ammo...$45 for 30 lbs of marbles, something more than 6k marbles.
Pete
 
Thanks RC, that looks really nice! Not too many thingamajigs hooked onto it to make it look fancy....
 
I never thought of using marbles for ammo, always just got some ball bearings if I was going for accuracy. Otherwise, just used rocks....

$45 for several thousand isn't a bad deal though at all.
 
Oh, The Horror!!!!

Those 30 pounds of glass marbles will still be littering the ground 10,000 years from now.

And future archaeologists will ponder and argue for years about what humans were doing with so many round glass spear's found in one oval shaped pattern in the ground (behind your pre-historic target they can no longer find a trace of).

Was it:
* Some Witchcraft / New Age crystal healing ritual?
* Or offerings to an unknown God of Glass Spheres?
* Maybe some form of Chinese Checkers gone awry on a grand scale that doomed civilization in the future??
* Or a crashed alien spacecraft from the Marbleiyon Galaxy???

You don't want to be any part of another scientific controversy 10,000 years from now do you?

Well, Do You??

rc
 
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Oh if I could even hope to be a cause of such confusion in academia my joy would be complete! :neener:
 
When the kids and I fail to recover enough marbles we just swing by a "dollar" store on the way home from wherever and by a bag of marbles....49 regular and a "shooter" for a buck and tax. The kids delight in the fact that a marble from a plain jane "marksman" brand they bought at Tractor Supply at seven yards can pierce an aluminum drink can. BTW thoe are available with a folding wrist brace.

We actually discussed rc's scenario some time ago as The Boy has thoughts of becoming historical dirt digger.

-kBob
 
Hmmm

ashed alien spacecraft from the Marbleiyon Galaxy
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Gasp! You know about the Marbleiyon Galaxy???
I thought that only I.....
Be careful whom you tell.
Pete
PS - what is neat about marbles - I use the frosted ones - is that you can see them after release. Good feedback on learning to shoot straight.
 
I have a Marksman and a old Pocket Rocket using Barrett and Marksman Heavy bands .Glass Marbles will dent soup cans and put nice marks in fence pickets. When I was younger I took rabbits and other small game with them. Waiting to get some flat bands for a Wham-O frame I restored.
 
rcmodel said:
Oh, The Horror!!!!

Those 30 pounds of glass marbles will still be littering the ground 10,000 years from now.

And future archaeologists will ponder and argue for years about what humans were doing with so many round glass spear's found in one oval shaped pattern in the ground (behind your pre-historic target they can no longer find a trace of).

Was it:
* Some Witchcraft / New Age crystal healing ritual?
* Or offerings to an unknown God of Glass Spheres?
* Maybe some form of Chinese Checkers gone awry on a grand scale that doomed civilization in the future??
* Or a crashed alien spacecraft from the Marbleiyon Galaxy???

You don't want to be any part of another scientific controversy 10,000 years from now do you?

Well, Do You??

rc
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Use organic peanuts!!!
 
I use to use a Wrist Rocket and shoot quarter size glass balls that we could pick up from the Owens Corning plant in Amarillo Tx. By the 5 gal buckets full. Most of the guys I worked with had a Wrist Rocket also and we had a lot of Pegions and Jack Rabbits around the trucking company terminal we worked at. We got pretty good with them, and they would just do a Pegion in at any distance we could hit one. The Jackrabbits were a little toughter, but if you could hit them they were usually draging something if they could run off. Which didn`t happen to often. We would put the dead ones in one of the guys Pickup trucks and he would feed them to his hogs. They also shot Cherry Bombs along ways arounf the 4th of July. I don`t know if the Wrist Rocket Company is still even business any more, but we all had a great time with them, back in the late 70`s and early 80`s.
ken
 
I make hardwood board cut slingshots. It's funny but I can make them, I can own them, I can give them away but I cannot shoot one where I live, even in my own garage, due to city law here. Best ammo bar none for me is taconite pellets. 65% iron ore and some clay fired in pellet form. Takes down a rabbit like a ball bearing but breaks up to dust if it hits a hard or really solid object. I make a version that goes into the back pocket of jeans and seems to disappear. For easy free full size patterns go to slingshot channel and download. I make and give away slingshots and canes here locally. This keeps me away from drinking coffee and sitting in McDonalds every morning with all the rest of the retirees.

blindhari
 
Mom used to buy these hangers every couple of years or so from the kids in high school who used to do what I believe was "JC" stuff. Basically, the kids got together to learn how a business worked and generated some product as a project, then manufactured and sold it as part of the process.

Never failed that some group would make these heavy duty hangers out of what I believe was 1/4" aluminum rod in various colors. Mom loved these and always bought a few when they came up.

Man, I found out that if there was one way to p*** Mom off, it was to use her nice hangers to make wrist-rockets! Seems they weren't cheap...

On the good side, they made good wrist-rockets and Mom had one of her own, custom made by her number four son! She was a darn good shot with a slingshot, let me tell you...

I used to buy surgical rubber tubing at a hardware store, or one of the pharmacies downtown. Used leather from old shoes or boots for the leather pouches.

Word to the wise...spend some time doing some decent polishing of the wrist-rocket where the tubing slides over the aluminum rod. It'll go a long way towards extending the life of your tubing.
 
Some really great suggestions here, and some equally great stories :) It's fun to think back to the fun that these things can be.

Is it pretty much a rule that flat bands are better than the tube type bands?
 
When I was in high school my buddies and I spent hours under an old rail bridge shooting rocks at bottles and other shatterables we could find. After the Fourth of July we switched to the occasional fire cracker :D
 
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