sling shot

Trumark sells their slingshots, bands, and ammo on their website for reasonable prices.

I came across a site a while back run by a German guy IIRC, with a decent forum and links to several different novel slingshot makers. Unfortunately I can't seem to find it now.
 
I meant it is illegal to hunt in nys with a slingshot, sorry, anyway I have a trumark slingshot and it reallylacks the power of other slingshots I've owned such as the marksman... it's fine for targets though.
 
Games laws, like most laws, always have people who will wail to the heavens that they are necessary and the world will come to an end if the law is not passed...or if the law is passed.

It's disgusting actually. It doesn't have to be this way. I mean, yeah, I don't want to see people hunting in the woods in an unsafe manner, but after the safety issue is addressed - I don't really care what they use as long as it won't just cripple game...

But there is a caveat in there as well. I have hunted enough to know that a man with a fully functional .30-06 can cripple game as well...but the law does not really address the more-money-than-brains owner of this imaginary .30-06 who is not skilled but only seems to address the lesser people who are generally more skilled with more primitive weapons.

Kentucky is a real pickle! Check this out...well, when I lived in lower Virginia... for almost a year anyway... You don't need a Handicap Permit for a Crossbow in Kentucky. Where I was living was only a short distance to Kentucky. A very short distance. If you cross the line into Kentucky, all of the sudden, your slingshot is illegal to hunt with.

Crossbow and Slingshot Hunting Laws have always baffled me for the most part. One State like Maryland considers the Crossbow some type of exotica that only someone with a shoulder, or other injury, should be able to hunt with and in Kentucky, it's no big deal! Yet Kan-Tuck-E gets its legal panties in an uncomfortable wad over Slingshots.
 
RescueRiley said:
I meant it is illegal to hunt in nys with a slingshot, sorry, anyway I have a trumark slingshot and it reallylacks the power of other slingshots I've owned such as the marksman... it's fine for targets though.
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Tell it to all the squirrel and rabbits I've killed with mine. Hahahaha...
 
Paintballs

They take a gentle touch to launch them but they are loads of fun without damaging anything. Especially when the alarm on your neighbours effing car keeps going off in the middle of the night....
 
Don Rearic said:
Games laws, like most laws, always have people who will wail to the heavens that they are necessary and the world will come to an end if the law is not passed...or if the law is passed.
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For survival stuff, I'm not even worried about game laws. If I'm lost and hungry, I'm eating what I can catch. If a game warden finds me, I'll be tickled pink. It does make it hard to practice real skills.

I do think hunting should be as humane as possible. IMHO, a lot of the crossbow issues are over poaching and kids running around with them. You could run around the subject of bow hunting seasons and crossbows and the rest forever. It's all politics.
 
Actually, the thing about Crossbows ALWAYS makes me shake my head, the things people say about them. They are great tools but it seems as though there are the lovers and haters and the lovers think they can do anything and the haters just hate them, i.e., "Oh, they're just like a rifle." B-S. :)

Personally, any State that has some sort of retarded prejudice about Crossbows should perhaps ban mechanical releases and peep sights on Compound Bows. The laws, like most game laws, are designed to give the animals a break. Nevermind the fact that they can run like hell and have almost supernatural abilities when it comes to leaping over things...I have watched Whitetail Deer just about damned near jump straight up in the air like a housecat and go over fences or up embankments next to roads, etc. Amazing animals!

The Crossbow is somehow viewed as an "unfair advantage" and that's where the prejudice came in long, long ago. But they then allowed mechanical releases and various sighting systems on Recurves and Compounds which take all of the excellent attributes of the Crossbow and leave behind the negative (limited range due to bolt or in the case of PSE - arrow size...but the PSE Crossbows are closer to conventional Compound attributes because it uses an arrow and not a bolt.).

I'm not saying I want mechanical releases or peep sights on bows banned, I'm saying that if you want to be fair about it, that would have to happen in order to make the prohibitions against Crossbows "reasonable."

But, the law is oftentimes unreasonable. :)

I've killed deer with a rifle, I don't hunt anymore too expensive a sport for what I personally get out of it... I have to say that if they allowed Crossbow hunting during Firearms Season, I'd probably be interested in doing that, for those that think the damned thing looks like a rifle so it somehow is, through some strange osmosis, a rifle. :)

More skill to it than a .30-30.
 
More sites where you can buy catapults please!

Used to wreck the neigbours' roof tiles when a teenie terrorist, but they could be a good basic survival tool:silent, cheap,non maintenance and free ammo!
 
You have to read the thread Dude. Not necessarily free ammo! One guy early on said his Dad used one with rocks, but he used smooth, round river stones. Big difference. Any projection or abnormality on the rock will grab wind and interesting things happen with accuracy when that happens.

Yet, for short range shots, I've hunted with some gnarly rocks and nailed rabbits and squirrels with them, no problem whatsoever. Some of the best times of my youth were spent hunting with a Slingshot or a Sheridan Air Rifle.

I still have my old Trumark Wrist-Rocket, I have since found another one as well and I have a folding Slingshot from Marksman, if I remember correctly. I tend to like the angle of the forks to brace on the old Trumarks more than the others which are more straight up and down, etc.

ANY Slingshot that uses modern bands, as well as the breakdowns from other people earlier in the thread with the old Whamo flatbanders...they will all kill small game.

The slap of the bands can make aware game jump, not totally unlike Bowhunting when animals jump the string...

I have spent a lot of time with Slingshots in the woods. There are so many tricks I learned from my Dad and from old Stackpole Books he had in on the bookshelf, etc.

If you have a length of cord, and you should have, you can tie that off to a bush near an Oak tree and then go sit on the opposite side of the tree. When the squirrel goes around the tree, you shake the bush and they will come back to your side and you can kill them. Or, with squirrels and rabbits, you can buy a Hawk Call and have that in the opposite side of your mouth, from your anchor point (unless you like losing teeth...) and blow the Call and make a rabbit or squirrel sometimes freeze out of fear...kill them immediately.

Rabbits are creatures of habit. You jump one in a field with cover, they will run in a semi-circle and stop, press them a little bit more and they will run back almost exactly where you originally jumped them. If you are even remotely familiar with the terrain in any given area you can predict where they will be. Only when hard pressed will they haul ass totally out of the area.

All of these things are things you need to know and get used to through experimentation in order to hunt with primitive weapons like Slingshots.
 
When I was a kid, a flat tire on a bike meant Slingshots For Everybody. We would have that innertube cut down & all of my friends & I would be off in search of the last Y-shaped stick we used or scrounge up another. I never killed anything w/ any of mine, but sure as hell could have. A couple of hours of practice & you're consistently knocking soda cans off of the woodpile at 20 paces.
 
Thanks guys- I just bought a f-ing slingshot online :rolleyes:
Like I need more toys...
 
Cheers Don, I'll do my best. ;)
Off to the dollar store to buy some marbles...
 
Try to get white, make nice tracers. Really work too! Once you get used to them then start using lead and steel balls, the trajectories will be a bit diff from the marbles but you will get the idea.

Have fun and remember what Hetfield he say... :D
 
I don't recall how or why, but I've got a wrist-rocket that I bought in NYS several years ago. I don't carry it in the car or on my person. I like to use it to sling driveway gravel at the local squirrels hanging around our birdfeeder (cat-feeder).
 
Another good resource (perhaps the best), for information on slingshots is a German sight (In English)...
http://melchiormenzel.de/index.html
Lots of old timers on there with great advice! Check out the "links" section for different brands/dealers, etc. This is an awesome sight...
 
Don rearic are yopu referring to a trumark slingshot. cause i was....I used to have an old marksman wrist rocket, and a marksman slingshot without the a brace I would have no problem ethically hunting with either of them if it were legal, I however also have a baisic trumar model which just doesn't seem to have the zip...but too each his own.
 
RR,

This one here:

http://slingshots.com/html/sling-shots-ws1.html

That's the one. Works so good I got me another one used for a steal!

It's no telling why you had a failure, assuming that is the one you used. Different types of ammunition, Gray Squirrels are hardheaded little sonsabitches but I've killed plenty of them with rocks, steel ball bearings, steel cylinder bearings, .50 Cal. lead balls, as well as .30 Cal., .45(-70), .38 Spec. Wadcutter (like a cylinder bearing in shape), and oddball bullets like 7mm and bullets for reloading the 6.5X54 Mannlicher Schoener. I think I spelled it right, been a long time. My Dad used to reload but he died and left a bunch of stuff I didn't know how to use and my mother was selling it off piecemeal, anyway...so I used a lot of his reloading components for slingshot ammo.

It's strange, I've never hit a squirrel or rabbit and not killed it outright with steel or lead. Rocks left some of them twitching and you had to rack'em up again...just that common Wristrocket from Trumark is plenty powerful enough as long as you are using lead or steel and if you're not too concerned with a little bit of anguish on the part of the animal, and you wouldn't be in a survival situation, relatively smooth rocks as well. Rocks and marbles are incredibly light projectiles compared with the other stuff.
 
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