I was at Wally World today and saw a Crossman slingshot for $5. I don't know anything about the subject; my only slingshot was one I found as a boy and carried around in my back pocket. They should be good for mice, gophers, and feral animals, right?
Anyway, I'm not interested in Olympic class competitive slingshotting here, but I don't want to get something that's going to break in 5 or 10 shots, either. Ideas?
wrist rocket
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workinwifdakids
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wrist rocket
And may I say, from a moral point of view, I think there can be no justification for shoving snack cakes up your action.
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308Mike
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Re: wrist rocket
You didn't look very hard, did you? 
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Re: wrist rocket
good for windows in most local Stamp Tax agent offices/homes too.
not enough energy for traffic light cameras though. prolly need tar for that.
not enough energy for traffic light cameras though. prolly need tar for that.
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308Mike
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Re: wrist rocket
I understand good ol' marbles are decent for hunting with, cheap and readily available, and they shatter when hitting a hard surface (but I'd want to test that one first, just to see how frangible they are in reality).
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What do you know, here's a laser-aimed wrist-rocket. They sure didn't have these when I was a kid!!
EDIT:
What do you know, here's a laser-aimed wrist-rocket. They sure didn't have these when I was a kid!!
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Re: wrist rocket
Big bully, Mike!
Of course I looked, I just don't know enough to know what I'm looking at.
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.
Of course I looked, I just don't know enough to know what I'm looking at.
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.
And may I say, from a moral point of view, I think there can be no justification for shoving snack cakes up your action.
--Weetabix
--Weetabix
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workinwifdakids
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Re: wrist rocket
Oh, duh! Because my title was wrist rocket! Errr, this is going to sound stupid as the day is long, but I thought it was a nickname. I didn't even know there was a brand called that!
Kind of like Kleenex, Popsicle, and the rest are just names but also specific...
Kind of like Kleenex, Popsicle, and the rest are just names but also specific...
And may I say, from a moral point of view, I think there can be no justification for shoving snack cakes up your action.
--Weetabix
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308Mike
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Re: wrist rocket
Hell, we used to nail squirrels from a significant distance with these things - and since my dad brought us back a Pachinko machine from overseas when we were kids, we learned to use the balls as almost PERFECT ammo for our wrist rockets.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Denis
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Re: wrist rocket
Seeing as how slingshots/catapults are illegal in these here parts, I wouldn't know anything about them.
My father, however, is a deadly shot with one. He used to make them for me as a kid out of a notched piece of floorboard, some bicycle inner-tube, baler twine and a bit of shoe leather.
My father, however, is a deadly shot with one. He used to make them for me as a kid out of a notched piece of floorboard, some bicycle inner-tube, baler twine and a bit of shoe leather.
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Re: wrist rocket
I bought one when I first got back into bowhunting, ( I shoot longbows, without sights) because the techniques for one carry over into the other. Then discovered that they are a lot of fun in there own right, not just a neat training tool.
I need to get mine out again.
I need to get mine out again.
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Re: wrist rocket
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.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.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".