wrist rocket

The place for general talk about gun, shooting, loading, camping, survival, and preparedness related tools and gear, as well as gear technology discussion, gear reviews, and gear specific "range reports" (all other types of gear should be on the back porch).
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workinwifdakids
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Re: wrist rocket

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randy wrote:
workinwifdakids wrote:And as far as breaking windows, I wouldn't know anything about that. I've heard some folks talking about that, but sometimes these things go right over my head.
I think it's for times when you have to extract a person from a burning building or a wrecked vehicle and the doors don't work. 8-)
Yes. That's exactly what I had in mind. We seem... like-minded.
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workinwifdakids wrote:
randy wrote:
workinwifdakids wrote:And as far as breaking windows, I wouldn't know anything about that. I've heard some folks talking about that, but sometimes these things go right over my head.
I think it's for times when you have to extract a person from a burning building or a wrecked vehicle and the doors don't work. 8-)
Yes. That's exactly what I had in mind. We seem... like-minded.
ESPECIALLY when they're heavy safety-glass.
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Aren't a lot of storefronts tempered glass?

ETA: Nevermind, I just learned that "tempered" and "safety" are interchangeable when it comes to glass.... :)
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They're really fun if you use a 1/2" nut as 'fodder', it screams as it goes downrange.

And they have several uses in the hunting field, not just small game (if you're good) but for spooking game out of the brush, just shoot on the other side of the patch you think the critter is in and they tend to come right to you.

And here's a bit of local color for those back 'east'.

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Whirlibird wrote:And here's a bit of local color for those back 'east'.

Beanshooter
That is exactly how my father makes his catapults, except he uses a forked stick from an ash tree.
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a wrist rocket, a pair of safety glasses, 100 paint balls. $20 at wal mart.
Whole afternoon in the woods playing poor man's paint ball, priceless
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Fifty caliber round ball. And that is all I have to say.
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