Has anyone hear harvesyed game with a slingshot?

Not MY Freedom, trust me I will fight to the death to protect MY Freedom and the Original US Constitution!

Yeah, isn't that what DPKnives has on his 'assault slingshot'?! Love that 'AS' Don, that should be in someone's sig line GRIN!

Someone I know, hmm, once 'gifted' an aluminum yoke type thingy to someone else in NJ. When I heard the story it was, "How come you are gifting it to me in 2 pieces?" Because it's a 'gift' you numbskull that's why, if you can't assemble it you should'nt own it GRIN! And the guy was a LEO!!!!!!
 
No one but a callous and cruel person takes any pleasure in anything but a quick, clean kill. Killing game for food, we all hope that the kill is quick and clean so the animal doesn't suffer. Even when it comes to rodents in the house, I don't particularly take any joy when an old Victor mouse trap snaps down on the nose instead of the head or neck of the mouse and it has to bleed out and be in pain. Sticky traps as well, cruel devices but I will use them if I have to. They're good for spiders in the house, too. :)

Deer can jump the arrow and you can fully intend on a clean kill and something goes wrong. While they can't jump a bullet, they can get spooked and you could end up gut-shooting them, etc. It's your responsibility to track the animal down and if at all possible, end the suffering and take the meat home.

Even if you wound a rabbit or squirrel with a slingshot and you have to finish it off because it is suffering, it's still more humane than a snare which strangles the animal. Basically, being garrotted is fairly romanticized in movies and it's usually fast and appears to be relatively painless, etc. In the movie "The Godfather," that's a fairly accurate depiction of a garrotting and it's not pretty, it's not quick and it's far from painless. So, anyone that would object to the use of a slingshot or other "exotica" would surely have to discard most primitive traps. Even with a large deadfall, there are no guarantees unless you are talking about a 10 lbs. weight on a mouse.

Added to that...we can never forget that even if we botch a shot or have to use something other than high-powered rifles, unless you are deliberately setting out to be cruel or torture the animal, we are far more merciful than the animal kingdom is on its own.
 
Leave it to Ny to make yet another really dumb law. A bayonet does sonud like fun on a sling shot.
 
1 - 2 OZ round lead fishing weights work GREAT in a wristrocket slingshot for dispatching rabbits and small bird game (quail etc). The 1 to 2 oz lead is a nice balance between speed and knockdown weight. I have used 3 OZ they are slow as heck but if you hit the rabbit it stays down. THUNK!
 
I agree with your post Don, a quick kill is a humane kill. If one has to finish off wounded game they should always be prepared to do so as promptly as possible without exception. It's no time to get squeamish when something you've injured is in agony and pain. The other thing to remember no matter what it is you are hunting for food; it will ALWAYS taste better if instantly killed. A head shot on a deer with a large caliber will drop it where it stands, and the meat will taste NOTICEABLE better than a body shot, if legal where you hunt. I learned this from some friends in Texas on a private ranch, and got to taste the results. I shot a body shot, lung/ heart, they shot a 50cal head shot. Of course it's not a wall mount shot! But if it's food you need then quality comes first.

Ditto on the lead sinkers that's why I mentioned them. Today they sell other type like steel, tungsten, etc because lead is a major health hazard (now they tell us, when I was a kid fishing I used to keep a bunch of split shot in my mouth to put on as needed. Used out teeth to open and close them because what 10 yr old carries pliers!).
 
When I was a kid I ran out of marbles to shoot from my wrist rocket so I wen rummaging around and found a bag of wooden beads. They were about 3/4" in diameter with a good sized hole through the center. They were absolutely NOT appropriate game-getting slingshot ammo, but let me tell you: They whistled like incomming artillery!!! :eek: Scared the hell out of my friends with these.

Along the same lines, there was a kind of firework available overseas we called "cracker balls." They were detonated by throwing them against the ground, or shooting them from a slingshot through an open classroom door as it turns out. :cool:

-- FLIX
 
I have taken both birds (on the ground) and squirrels with your typical wal-mart slingshot. Quite easy with some practice. I use the smaller silver shot they sell or ball bearings around the same size. Birds seem to go down easier than the squirrels..you need to hit them just right.
 
Like others, I've had no problem taking grey squirrels, rabbits & snowshoe hares, and(sitting) grouse and quail with a wrist braced sling shot and either carefully selected rocks or lead fishing weights. (Not too bad with an actual sling either... just takes me more practice before I'm ready.) As with a rifle/pistol on small game... you should be practiced/accurate enough for head shots. (I usually just made a sharpie mark on a soda can.)

As for killing without eating or needlessly wounding... well, sometimes kids have to learn a lesson one time the hard way... but there's no excuse for adults or kids the second time.
 
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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Sounds like a tough lesson learned young.

If you have never heard a wounded snowshoe rabbit wail ghoulishly like a baby you ain't lived... :eek:

Ethical shots and clean kills are best for all players involved. :)
 
I'd say if you're going to use your slingshot to hunt, then you owe it to the animal to build a practice box and learn how to shoot it right. That's what I have, and I'm confident I could hit the animal where I wanted to hit it 8 out of 10 times, if not 9 out of 10.

It also helps to have a hunting slingshot. I shoot a Double Eagle with 16 pound draw weight flat bands. There is nothing but kill shots with that thing. If it hits something, that something is dead.
 
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