Sling Shot Stories!

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mellow_c

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I thought it would be nice to hear if anyone has any interesting stories involving sling shots. Anyone ever done any hunting with one? Or Should I just expect alot of "broken window" stories:D?

I hit my GF in the face with a paint ball with mine. Right between the eyes. But it's ok, She was wearing a paint ball mask;)

I like the idea of hunting with it. Maybe a Rabbit if I get a great head shot with a big steel ball. But I really really doubt I could make a shot like that. I was lucky to even hit my GF at 20 yards, let alone in the face!

Lets hear em!:)
 
I used to use a Wrist Rocket when I was a kid. I was good enough to kill squirrels with it. My hunting partner and I were thinking about getting some slingshots for this year's deer season. We hunt on a cattle ranch and we frequently get cows that like to hang out around our stands ruining any chance of hearing a deer that is sneaking up on us. A slingshot should shoo them away without doing any other harm.
 
I got a squirrel with a wristrocket & a rock. Knocked him right off the tree branch, he hit the ground and was unconscious, then a finishing shot in the head with a Nike. Hey, Mastiffs gotta eat too...
 
When I was about 7 or 8, I had one of those cheapie slingshots with the square edge wood handles - just a little kid "toy", not a wrist rocket or anything fancy.

Me and the neighborhood crew were wandering around on the back 40 shooting things. There was a crow on a fence post that had to be 20 yds away. I picked up a rock and announce I was going to hit that crow and actually did it - BAM right in the chest. Knocked it off the post, it then hopped up and flew away.

No one ever questioned my slingshot ability after that, even though I doubt I could have done it again in 10 years....
 
As a kid, I started my instinctive shooting on a sling shot. From there, evolved to instrinctive archery shooting and the rest is history. I still take mine out when the wife and I go canoing and this year I shot a water snake off the side of a tree, on the first try. Sure impressed the wife and surprised me as well. :eek:

Be Safe
 
I used a wrist-rocket for paintball backup for the frequent ball-chopping tendencies of my used Tippman ProLite. Got a few kills with it, and just generally had a blast with it.
 
i was maybe 15, bought a wooden cheapo one in the luray caverns gift shop. broke 3 windows and wounded 1 squirrel with it. paid for the windows:), but not the squirrel. dad almost broke my butt,( he tried) took the slingshot away. locked it up somewhere.

my grandad when he was a teen was pretty with one. could hit the glass insulators on the utility pole lines. got a few frogs, squirrels. i don't know if they still use glass insulators anymore. but he was living in wisconsin back then.
 
There is a place I can go and sit on the edge of a cliff. about 50 feet down. And about 100 yards out (maybe further) from the cliff there is an old barn. I've found if I use a nice round rock, or medium steel ball. I can use my wrist rocket to lob the ball and hit the barn. Cant see if I hit it, but I can hear it:D It's fun to just sit on the cliff with a buddy and see who can get the most hits on the barn. :D
 
My brother and I use to shoot arrows out of ours and play yard darts with them since they took my damn lawn darts from me.
 
Thats a great idea, if you have a huge yard! I remember Lawn darts... I think we still have them hidden in the basement somewhere?!?!
 
Survival Sling

I was a student pilot in the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) course in FL in the late 60s. Instructor had a wrist-rocket, using .45 ball that he had dug out of the backstop at a gun range.

I (unfortunately) spotted a skunk that the instructor engaged. His shot disabled, but did not kill. The response from the skunk was predictable and, although out of spray range, the massive smell had a gag/retch response from the shooter. The skunk was killed with a long stick to the head.

I got to carry the carcass (at end of same long stick) and clean it for dinner. The trick was to skin it under water at a stream. The resultant meat was thrown into the pot of boiling poke salad.

Autopsy showed that the .45 slug had broken the front leg pretty close to the body and the skunk was pretty badly injured (hence the ability to get close enough for the stick kill). Head shot probably would have been instantly effective.


Tasted just like chicken.......


that got sprayed by a skunk!!



We weren't hungry enough to eat any of it.
 
Hit a horse in the a@# w/ one. At 100yds no less. also killed a couple rabbits w/ one. Mostly have used one to scare deer out of pockets where they are holed up during the day.
elkman
 
I hit my female cousin in the right cheek of her semi-big butt from across the room when I was about 8 or 9 with a toy slingshot and a plastic letter A fridge magnet for ammo. She was about 16 or 17. I never imagined the letter would fly that straight and true and flat. Never tumbled nor pitched nor yawed in flight - just a straight A that got smaller and smaller till WHACK!!

I felt bad but understandably could not control my laughter out of sheer surprise. :D

She was not quite as amused...

Oh, wait, on further recollection, it was an H, not an A. LOL
 
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