Slingshot anyone?

Oh my air rifle was a BSA METEOR british made. The only place i didnt take it with me was school. We would shoot matches in half at 20 paces. Used to bring down jack rabbits and Lots of Patridge ( not sure how to spell the name ).
 
caustichumor said:
While a knife is one of the most usefull tools to have in your possesion in a survival situation, an edged weapon has obvious limitations (such as hunting) I don't think that there are too many animals that will let a human get within a good stabbing distance. I keep a survival pack stocked that will get me through most survival situations, but don't want the added weight of carrying a rifle or compound bow, Handguns are not an option in my country (Australia)
Does anyone use a slingshot / shanghi for hunting, I would assume that they would only be effective on birds and smaller animals, (Shanghis are also illegal to use in Australia, but in a survival situation i'll take the risk!)
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Get this... In my town, slingshots and bb guns are illegal and are NOT sold. However, you can go 3 miles down the road from walmart and buy an AK47, 1000 rounds of ammo, and or an HK MP5. Ironic?
 
sasha said:
Where i grow up which is Israel we used green oranges. We used to to throw them at each other.
Sasha
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Hey Sasha,

I've never been to Israel, but sometimes on the news, when they were portraying conflict between the Israeli soldiers and Palestinians, I would see some Palestinian youths throwing rocks at the soldiers using slings (think David and Goliath slings). Were these common when you were growing up?

Doc
 
Well, Sasha! I'm glad to see you guys have fun too :D Crikey, you shot guys with river rocks ? :D In my worst fantasy, I would never shoot somebody with a river rock :D Just kidding...
 
On a more serious note, archaeologists have found lead projecticles, shaped like small double-ended torpedoes, that were slung out of slings...they would go through a mud-walled house, split skulls and bones...these things were used in Biblical times and the good ol' days of classical Roman and Greek literature...
 
Hi Doc, when i left israel about 24 years ago. We realy didnt have as much trouble. But in school we were always told dont pick up anything that you dont know who left it in the first place. The palestinians used to leave toys that would look like someone forgot and it would be boobytraped so when a kid pick it up it would blow his hand off. At that time they could go anywhere in the country. There werent all the security blocking the roads.

Hi Coldwood the reason we shoot him with rocks was cause he used to harress us younger kids. The green oranges were used on friends They were the size of Golf balls and very hard. Cant but smile now just thinking about the walk from school. The best part was when you find an over ripe orange that started to rot. I got hit with one on the side of the head. Not only that i were laughed at the all way home but my mom made me take a shower again. Oh the good days of being a kid.

Sasha
 
Those slings were used mostly by sheperds. Im sure if someone learned how to use it as a kid would be very good at it with daily practice.

Sasha
 
have you ever seen a baseball slingshot? those things take your whole arm muscles and the distance to shoot it. I can shoot on at over 75+ mph and over the home-run fence. if you drilled a big hole all the way through a baseball you can kill a deer with a shot to the head. easily.
 
Sasha...you shot yourself in the foot? Cool...I did that to my thumb, right after I got my first BB gun, wanted to see what it felt like. It hurt, swelled up.
 
Ok guys, since we have entered the childhood arms race....

My other hobby besides paintball is Spudguns. I build pneumatic Spudguns.
My current best performer is 6 feet long, 2 inch bore.
We fire the mini-Nerf Footballs. I have chronoed them at 450 FPS leaving the bore. We shot one (foam football) through a safety net at 50 feet, clean round hole. Then we shot tube of caulk through 1/2" plywood.
Luckily we were NOT smart enough to build them as youths, surely some of us would have been hospitalized.

Tennis Ball Cannons:
We did go thru a phase building tennis ball cannons out of soup cans as kids.
Lighter fluid was the propellant. Tape the cans together with electrical tape.
BOOM, tennis balls would go hundreds of feet in the air.
Then my best friend built a shoulder stock out of a 2x4. Since someone had to light it, thru the tiny hole in the breach, we resembled a Bazooka team, one kid holding the cannon, the other touching off the thing.
Of course, more-lighter-fluid is better, so we kept upping the amount, until we were blowing the cans apart.
Then came the day we doused a tennis ball in lighterfluid and launched it.
It was summer, it was very dry out, and when it came to earth it bounced several times, each time lighting a small circle of fire in my buddies yard.
We looked like chickens out there scratching the dry grass with our feet to put out the mini-fires.

OK, fastforward, so I tried to build one to show my son a few years back.
Cannot get them to go BOOM with the current available lighterfluid. ???
It seems they have found a less explosive form, and have changed it without our knowing it!
It must be a gov't conspiracy.
 
Skunk i think we are going into the child arm race. Like i said i grow up in Israel, we always found old ammo laying around in the hill from all the wars. My turn on was making rockets and anything that blow up. One of my heros was James Bond so you know i loved gagets. At that time my parents would make water infused with CO2. We took the 12oz CO2 bottle and removed the stop. ( Most of the time we turn them in for refill ) If you got enough bullets you can open them and take all the gun powder out. We would stick it into the CO2 cly make a fuse install it in a large pipe and light it. There were two things that would happen. First most common it would blow up and take the pip with it. Second it would shoot out of the pipe. It would go all the way to the other side of the corn field. One time i went to pee in the bushes. Open my pants start peeing and guess what im peeing on. Hand graneds that were old and rusted. We ran home called the police and they blow them up. Should i tell you guys about me almost setting a fire to a 4 story building lol. Or how about having my dog save my friends and me some beating from an arab with a big stick lol. We were the trouble makers in the small town. damn i wish i were 13 or 15 again.
The funny thing no matter where you grow up some boys are same As kids im sure we all would have gotten along something great. Unless they would have send the army to stop us all lol.
Sasha
 
LMAO...LMAO...now I'm going to have to get into exploding arrows. This is totally illegal shit, anybody want to ask why?
 
A long time ago, in a legal jurisdiction far, far, away I knew a guy who would take .223 cal cartridge cases, pour in nitroglycerine, add a black powder squib/primer and Bondo in a short piece of canon fuse. He would pull one of these back in his Wrist Rocket and have a friend light the stubby fuse. He timed this for air burst. When I met him he was 25 and still had all his digits. He was a very lucky guy.

I knew another guy who would fill a primed rifle cartridge with black powder and glue it on the end of an arrow. He would glue a nail that he cut down to 1/8-inch long over the primer. This would detonate when fired at almost anything. I don't think he ever tried it on a window, but we sure talked about it.

One of the better things to make if you had surgical tubing is a spear gun. The only complicated part of the whole design is to come up with a reasonable trigger.
 
I used to make guns that fired .22 cartridges from 2x4s with holes drilled in them. Didnt work to well, buckled the wood and sent the thing like 20 feet.
I would set up a bunch of firecrackers somewhere so all the fuses were bundled togethor and put a stolen lit cigarette with a hole in it on 1 main fuse. worked like a time bomb. Many great uses for that one.

I mada an exploding arrow out of a shotgun shell with a bb taped to the primer and facing the target. Loud but not explosive, an empty co2 would have been better.

Every year there would be a big celtic music festival in Nova Scotia called the broad cove concert, and every year we would have a huge crab apple fight, us against the out of town kids.
There were hundreds of people there and we were whipping crab apples in every direction, but noone ever got hit with a stray that I can remember
 
I love you guys..LMAO...

(WARNING...THE FOLLOWING IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PERPOSES ONLY...DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME)

'kay, 'kay, you take an aluminum arrow and pull the field point off...you back fill the tube with the powder of your choice...now epoxy a large shotgun shell primer on the end of the arrow tubing....then epoxy a steel BB on the primer point...the thing is now in battery, do NOT drop the MF point down on your marble kitchen floor...in fact you can cover the head with a piece of automotive rubber tubing until the moment when you are ready to launch.

(WARNING - THE PREVIOUS INFORMATION WAS FOR EDUCATIONAL PORPOISES ONLY, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME...UNLESS UNDER THE IMMEDIATE SUPERVISION OF A RESPONSIBLE ADULT!)
 
O.K O.K how about we all get togher out in the desert bring your best stuff. Im sure now when we are all older we can get better stuff. Maybe even think of more things........ Would you guys think it would be as much fun when you older as it was when we were kids...... As a kid we never thought what might happen it just seemed like fun at the time lol. Im lucky to have my hands from all the things that blow up. I do have some marks on them still but looking back i would do it all over again and even more if i could. Just thinking about this thread makes me smile. I keep remembering more and more. I must thank you as my day at work is soo much better.


Sasha
 
lol Coldwood i love the idea.......... now the $64 Q is .... which one of us is the RESPONSIBLE ADULT that you are talking about lol. Im the guy that took an 8 year old kid gave him a razor sharp Mora and set him loose in the woods in the summer time. We also build snares but didnt catch anything. He made fire with firesteel. Hiking and i played around like we are lost. He was happy that we would sleep in the hills. Five months later and he still talks about Knifes Bows and arrows. He was so excited that he never complained once about being tired.
My sister called me and gave me a lecture about how could i give him a knife. she also wanted to know what that the hell is he talking about, making fire with no matches...

He thinks im the best there ever was

Sasha
 
Sasha, I'm glad to hear you had a good experience with that youngster. I apologize to anybody else who thinks I was out of line for the exploding arrow story. It was intended as a spoof. I should really keep my mouth shut. Can't :D
 
Coldwood dont let me stop you. We are all adults here...... just not the responsible ones lol.
The real sad thing is that so many kids just never have as much fun as we did.
Sasha
 
Wow, apple fights...BB gun fights...rock fights...I would go running home crying with my scalp split open (we used to sling pieces of slate at each other), my mother would cut the hair away and put iodine on it and then send me outside to "play" again..."Don't get your eye put out!" I still have scalp scars.
 
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