Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: 65x55 swedis on June 15, 2010, 09:30:31 pm
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hey has one got a picture of a good slingshot that could be used for hunting? and has any killed anything with a sling shot i have heard it being done but never seen it.
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Any slingshot can be used for hunting. Rabbits don't take much of a knock on the top of the noggin and it's lights out. My dad used to get ruffed grouse quite frequently as a kid; I had to try myself and managed it twice. Anything with surgical tubing and a wrist brace is killer, but they aren't the most accurate contraptions in the world.
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hey has one got a picture of a good slingshot that could be used for hunting? and has any killed anything with a sling shot i have heard it being done but never seen it.
And I beg to differ on the Accuracy of a Sling Shot..... >:D
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Zen- I have to disagree. They are as accurate as any other weapon when practiced. I've seen some amazing videos of how accurate they can be. Ill search and post it...
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Here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0
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OK, but if you have to sell your soul to the devil, it doesn't count! ;D
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A sling shot can be as accurate as a bow if you practice enough. When I was a kid we could buy little wire frame sling shots with rubber bands. That and a pack of BB's reeked havoc and killed many squirrels and birds. The sling shot cost a dime and cellophane pack of 500 BB's were five cents.
I know guys now that make their own and are pretty darn accurate with them shooting .40cal lead balls.
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A sling shot can be as accurate as a bow if you practice enough. When I was a kid we could buy little wire frame sling shots with rubber bands. That and a pack of BB's reeked havoc and killed many squirrels and birds. The sling shot cost a dime and cellophane pack of 500 BB's were five cents.
I know guys now that make their own and are pretty darn accurate with them shooting .40cal lead balls.
Pat your showing your age
even i paid more than that for mine ;)
not much,but still it was more ;D
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Tim, stuff was cheap in the 50 and early 60s. We used to pay $.25 a gallon for gas back then. ;D You could drive all weekend on $2.00!
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Pat, you are showing your age, I couldn't touch the pedals in Dad's car in the 50's. I shot the same slingshots as Pat, though, and Cokes were a nichel with 2 cents deposit. ;D
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Yeah....gas was .34 a gallon...Smokes were .49 a pack...and the ones in the Vending Machines had a Penny in the cellophane pack....because the Machines didn't give change....now thats telling my age too.... :P
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I never bought a slingshot in my life. We used to cut a forked ash branch that we could shape then bake it in the oven to harden it. We used 1/2" wide rubber bands and the shoe from an old shoe and tied them to the stick with string. It takes a lot less practice than a bow to be proficient. I killed lots of birds and small animals with it using marble sized rocks as ammo. I even killed a Canadian goose at the golf course with one.
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here is one i made from european buckthorn, yes that buckthorn, that aweful noxious stuff, but it is a beatuiful wood, might as well utilize it.
Daisy (as in bb guns) sells slingshot bands, in order of weakest to strongest they are: red, cream, yellow, blue, black. I haven't seen black ones for sale but have seen a slingshot with them, I could hardly pull it back. for hunting, the yellow bands are the way to go i think.
A friend of mine is a slingshot guru, he even pours his own lead shot for ammo and hunts rabbits with them (successfully) all the time. we put a lead ball through a chrono with a "blue banded" slingshot and it registered a bit under 200 fps.
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b194/MN_Littles/102_6033.jpg)
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to answer your questions, yes they can be used for hunting small game, rabbits are pretty easy to kill, especially with a lead ball. squirrels are a bit tougher (smaller heads ;D)
lead balls are better than the steel balls (in my opinion).