Who hunts and uses a slingshot for survival?

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I'm getting back into shooting my slingshot I've had for over 20 years. I plan to small game hunt with it and pack one as part of my gear. Anyone else use these as part of your survival gear? Madison Parker is big on the slingshot as a survival tool. I know he guides squirrel hunts using a slingshot.
Scott
 
I've got one in my truck BOB. I've never hunted with it, but I do love to plink.

Jeff
 
i have been wanting to start shooting my slingshot more... i really like the looks of all of these custom wooden ones i am seeing online, as apposed to my basic old wrist rocket...:o i might have to try making one one of these days..
i have been checking out Madison Parkers slingshots and bows for many years now, i wish i lived closer to Florida, so i can take a few of his classes..
 
Nothin fancy but shoots pretty well !

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By pitdog2010 at 2010-08-05
 
I enjoy shooting them and practice with them frequently. My favorite is a basic crossman without the wrist support and with the black extra pull bands. I ordered a Bells of the Hythe "catapult" and like it but still prefer my economy brand. Cutting and whittling my own is a new pasttime too. On the last advanced I made a small one out of hop hornbeam. Haven't put bands on it yet but it feels good in the hand.


Here is a tip for consistency. Most pouches are leather. You can lightly wet mould a depression in the pouch for your ball bearings or marbles. This will ensure it is placed in the same spot everytime.
 
I recently got me a Dankung Jungle Hunter to carry in my pack on hikes. Haven't used it for hunting yet, but have done a lot of plinking along the trails. Awesome little slingshot!

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For New York I believe the issue is you can not have a wrist braced sling shot. To the best of my knowledge an "unbraced" sling shot is fine.

My local hardware store sells braced sling shot which I find kind of funny. They also sell OC spray and SA matches.
 
About 33 years with them. I think I got my first one in 1977.

I have taken a lot of cottontails and grays with them and dusted off more than my fair share of pests. Including nailing dogs and cats in trash cans using superballs so I didn't cripple or kill them. Just scared the snot out of them.

There have been many of these threads over the years in here and you can always tell the people who just post to be negative, they always say they don't work. :D

Wristrockets are illegal in New York. Meaning a wrist-braced slingshot. Just another reason not to go there! Look at all of the stuff you can't do and can't own. Driveby slingshottings! Oh my!

Don't know about Jersey, but that wouldn't surprise me either.

Trumark Wrist-Rockets are just about the best you can get. I want to try the folding model because the folder I do have is a Marksman Brand, IIRC.
 
We used to have a poacher here that jack-lighted deer with a slingshot ! The game warden showed us a trunk load of stuff used to poach deer !!
Regular slingshot is ok in NY but a wrist braced one isn't.
 
I live in NY and I'm not a slingshot expert by any means, so by wrist braced I'm assuming you mean that it has a strap that rests on your wrist so the slingshot can't tip backwards? If so then I have an illegal weapon my aunt purchased from a dollar store a couple years ago. :eek:

Pics maybe when I get home... workin' at the deli, woooo! Gotta fund that knife obsession somehow. :grumpy:
 
What do you guys use for shot? I got one about a year ago and bought the little steel ball bearings and have a hard time seating them in the pouch because they're so dang small. Does it just take practice?
 
Lead balls and steel ball bearings .50 cal. / 1/2" Diam. or larger. I would like to be able to get .68 Cal. lead balls. :D

The smallish ball bearings commonly sold as slingshot ammo is a non-starter for me. :)

Steel is faster, being lighter. So for cagey animules that can jump the bands like animals jump a bow string, you might want to use steel. Lead hits like, well, lead. :D
 
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