Has anyone hear harvesyed game with a slingshot?

1Tracker said:
The EXACT DAY after I get photographs of Whitey, the albino deer up the road is the day I move out of this forsaken state:barf: I am in the process of buying a truck, already 90% packed to move. I was leaving last year but contracted a VERY bad case of Lyme Disease and had to stay for treatment, which then killed my finances, which caused me to sell off my knife collection amongst other personal stuff to pay the medical bills,etc. I still have a 'rubber band' and a forked stick somewhere in the woods:confused: and it's coming with me when I leave:cool:
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I went through about three years of unemployment in the early 90s because I had to take care of our Son. I'm sorry you have also had a rough time and I wish you safe escape and soft landing wherever you land. Just check the laws before you go there. :)
 
Not far behind ya 1 Tracker.

Kids will be in College in a couple years.

I'm rolling soon.

BTW we have an "Exit Tax" in NJ. 1% of the selling price of your property goes to the state if you do not buy another property within the state within 1year.

So be it. When the time comes, I'll pay anything to leave.
 
I've posted this before...
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Lizards, the other white meat.

Lizards are easy prey with the slingshot. If you miss they run a bit and then turn to look at you again. You have to hit them in the head. Body shots cause them to scramble down into the rocks and they get away. Yes, I did eat these.

Mac
 
If by Harvest, you mean miss cans all day then yes i harvested all the time with a slingshot, i have no aim with those things. pellet gun on the other hand, i have hit a few squirrels.
 
I hate telling this story. Back when I was 12 or 13, maybe 14, I used to run around my neighborhood shooting cottontails with my wrist rocket. Small stones were my ammunition. Every once in a while I'd actually hit one on the side and it would hop away. Then once, I caught one square beneath the eye and it did not hop off. It hopped in a circle, flipping on to it's side as it went. Then it would right itself and the process would repeat itself. I didn't eat it. Matter of fact, my mother called after me because someone had called me on the telephone and my friend had to put it out of it's misery with a stick. I still feel sick writing about this. It was a senseless killing. It was also a learning experience. If I had to I would take a cottontail out again with whatever means necessary in order to survive. Short of that, a clean safe kill with a small bore rifle would be much preferred. -DT
 
dttomcat said:
I hate telling this story. Back when I was 12 or 13, maybe 14, I used to run around my neighborhood shooting cottontails with my wrist rocket. Small stones were my ammunition. Every once in a while I'd actually hit one on the side and it would hop away. Then once, I caught one square beneath the eye and it did not hop off. It hopped in a circle, flipping on to it's side as it went. Then it would right itself and the process would repeat itself. I didn't eat it. Matter of fact, my mother called after me because someone had called me on the telephone and my friend had to put it out of it's misery with a stick. I still feel sick writing about this. It was a senseless killing. It was also a learning experience. If I had to I would take a cottontail out again with whatever means necessary in order to survive. Short of that, a clean safe kill with a small bore rifle would be much preferred. -DT
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Killing is never pretty and what you described can happen even with a rifle. Rocks are not very good ammo, I don't recall ever hitting a rabbit solid with a lead ball and not recovering it, however even with a shotgun they still might need a sharp rap to the back of the head to finish. Chris
 
Ammo is critical with slingshots, just like it is with a pellet rifle or firearm. I NEVER shot an animal with a .38 cal lead ball or similar sized ball bearinga and had it "hop off".

Wrist rockets with lead or steel ammo are DEADLY and ETHICAL for small game.
 
NJ is THE MOST assinine state I have ever lived in bar none. If you think CT is bad move here. I grew up in SE CT and know it's Liberal Heaven, where my own Mother (God rest her Soul) told me growing up,"Gene, this is a state where they 'test laws' to see if they can get away with them on the unsuspecting taxpayers". I believe her to this day and that was why I moved out of that state. I had a temporary work situation here that evaporated with the bs economy and now can't wait to leave this forsaken place. Yeah, most places are within an hour of the Shore; and there's plenty of wildlands/state forest to go screw around in. But the flip side is all the people from Hell with money that live here and think their lives are more important than your's, "so get the heck out of my way I'm late AS USUAL!'

A slingshot law, can it get any more rediculous?! Yeah why don't they just have everyone walk around wearing bicycle helmets cause you could fall and hit your head too!
 
PrimitiveMan said:
Not far behind ya 1 Tracker.

Kids will be in College in a couple years.

I'm rolling soon.

BTW we have an "Exit Tax" in NJ. 1% of the selling price of your property goes to the state if you do not buy another property within the state within 1year.

So be it. When the time comes, I'll pay anything to leave.
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PrimitiveMan you're welcome to drop by anytime, since you seem to be one of the few people in NJ with a BRAIN!! Maybe go for a walk to see the White Deer...at least then 2 of us here will have seen him and you can tell folks what it was like to see him:D Exit 114...it's a Joisey thing people, it's the only way to know where the heck you are in this state...by exit numbers!

BMB, yes, I know, I'm thinking this state will follow California by June, heck NY is ahead of California in their begging already:barf:
 
I just bought one of these here on the forums. It is a Crosman Firestorm. I cant wait to get and start shooting with it.
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It comes with an extra bag of ammo and I ordered an extra set of bands as well.

Doug
 
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dttomcat said:
I hate telling this story. Back when I was 12 or 13, maybe 14, I used to run around my neighborhood shooting cottontails with my wrist rocket. Small stones were my ammunition. Every once in a while I'd actually hit one on the side and it would hop away. Then once, I caught one square beneath the eye and it did not hop off. It hopped in a circle, flipping on to it's side as it went. Then it would right itself and the process would repeat itself. I didn't eat it. Matter of fact, my mother called after me because someone had called me on the telephone and my friend had to put it out of it's misery with a stick. I still feel sick writing about this. It was a senseless killing. It was also a learning experience. If I had to I would take a cottontail out again with whatever means necessary in order to survive. Short of that, a clean safe kill with a small bore rifle would be much preferred. -DT
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But the fact that you repeat it and explain that you learned in the process is the point. Same happened to me, 12-13 yrs old; messing around with my slingshot in the yard in CT back in the day when coveys of bobwhite quail were everywhere. I saw one and figured what the heck, took the wristrocket and nailed it in the head:thumbup: Only thing I did'nt count on was my father happened to be watching out of the second story office window:thumbdn: He watched me go pick it up and head for the woods with it. he came out, made me show him where I dumped it; then he proceeded to make me clean it in front of him (made a mess never had plucked a bird before:o). He then proceeded to have me bring it in, finish cleaning it, and prepare it for my dinner, all against my pleading:eek: as I was a vegetarian at the time. He told me I had no business killing anything I was'nt going to be eating, and tonight I would be eating that quail. Yep, I had to eat it and never forgot that lesson, so now unless I intend to consume something I target shoot until I 'need food on the table' as he used to say. All in all it was a great lesson that I pass on every chance I get so don't feel bad.
 
Cool looking ammo dispenser on that wrist brace there. Funny how one can drive to PA and buy boxes of slingshots if they 'wanted to', just saying, would'nt know anyone with a box of them.....whistle......whistle.....fell off a truck ocficer....
 
Frog legs done right are pure heaven in my camp fare! I used to used a small fish hook and a grasshopper to yank 'em out of the farm ponds when I was a kid in the Summer. Pretty funny to 'fish for frogs'. Then at night we'd go out and gig 'em along the water's edge with flashlights and spears.
 
I would not be surprised if they are illegal in NY as well but I look at it his way so are snares and if it comes to me making it OH WELL.
 
1Tracker said:
But the fact that you repeat it and explain that you learned in the process is the point. Same happened to me, 12-13 yrs old; messing around with my slingshot in the yard in CT back in the day when coveys of bobwhite quail were everywhere. I saw one and figured what the heck, took the wristrocket and nailed it in the head:thumbup: Only thing I did'nt count on was my father happened to be watching out of the second story office window:thumbdn: He watched me go pick it up and head for the woods with it. he came out, made me show him where I dumped it; then he proceeded to make me clean it in front of him (made a mess never had plucked a bird before:o). He then proceeded to have me bring it in, finish cleaning it, and prepare it for my dinner, all against my pleading:eek: as I was a vegetarian at the time. He told me I had no business killing anything I was'nt going to be eating, and tonight I would be eating that quail. Yep, I had to eat it and never forgot that lesson, so now unless I intend to consume something I target shoot until I 'need food on the table' as he used to say. All in all it was a great lesson that I pass on every chance I get so don't feel bad.
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Wow! I just started hunting deer last year. I'm aware that killing isn't pretty and that animals are rarely dropped in their tracks. I wish my mom or my dad had made me clean and eat that rabbit. Then I wouldn't suffer from the guilt of letting it go to waste. I think a fox or a dog must have got to it because it was gone when I went to the bus stop the next morning. I still feel sick (20+ years after the fact). But if I had to take a rabbit with a slingshot or a snare, I like my chances.
 
DPKnives said:
I would not be surprised if they are illegal in NY as well but I look at it his way so are snares and if it comes to me making it OH WELL.
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New York State Laws are retarded in another way, slingshot are legal unless they have a wrist brace, i.e., the classic wristrocket is illegal. I guess they consider it an "assault slingshot." I guess you could make the Bloomberg-Schumer-Spitzer-Cuomo tyrants bust a nut if you put a bayonet lug on one of them. :D
 
dttomcat said:
Wow! I just started hunting deer last year. I'm aware that killing isn't pretty and that animals are rarely dropped in their tracks. I wish my mom or my dad had made me clean and eat that rabbit. Then I wouldn't suffer from the guilt of letting it go to waste. I think a fox or a dog must have got to it because it was gone when I went to the bus stop the next morning. I still feel sick (20+ years after the fact). But if I had to take a rabbit with a slingshot or a snare, I like my chances.
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I kill squirrels almost every week and i dont feel any quilt at all as long as i make sure i killed it cleanly as possible. I do not take joy in killing animals but it is fun to hunt. I have a similar story. One day i was shooting squirrels and one was on the run and i shot him. And i shot and hit him through the back legs and he was hoping around and i said to my self $h!+ i went out side and finished it of with a golf club yes a golf club and when i ever i intend on killing an animal i make a clean head shot.
 
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