I had a bunch of slingshots and wrist rockets. From homemade to dime store ones and the Crossman ones.
Same as Rem260 I killed a lot more birds with my Crossman 760 but I loved the slingshot’s too. I was an 80’s kid. Cheap Chinese stars, butterfly knives, paintball guns, Milsurp army jackets, quilt canteen’s, BB guns, homemade spears, bows, pellet rifles all that good stuff.
It was a few more years before I got to play with the double barreled slingshots😃
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Several. Wrist rocket and wooden ones but the most effective one I had, I made out of a coat hanger and doubled up rubber bands with a pocket of denim. With four or five lead shot it was tough on sparrows and starlings.
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had a wham-o long before a wrist rocket. i killed 11 squirrels in yellowstone park with it. also shot 2 bears in the nuts with it. dad thought it was hilarious.
I had all three types and indeed some red rubber. The wrist rockets were the best and marbles the best ammo. We used sandstone sort of rounds on lizards and the effects were of a fragmentation round. F01
Yeah - first we made them from tree branch forks and red inner tube strips, had fun "hunting" but couldn't hit much. Finally got a Wham O when I was a teen and could hit stuff. Later got a wrist rocket with surg tubing and used ball bearings - that would kill things. Used it a lot when we lived in central AZ and had Javelina come rooting around the house - most of them took those hits seriously. Then again, whacked a big boar right on top of his skull - shooting from deck about 10 ft above - and he just blinked and kept rooting.
Grandmom bought me and my cousin a pair of hard plastic ones that looked like they were made of dinosaur bones or something. We were about 6-7 years old I guess.
We were on the driveway shooting little pea sized rocks with them when Grandad came out and said, “you boys better not shoot my yard lamps with them things”. Said yard lamps were approximately 20 yards away and we’d not even thought of shooting at them, until then. Cousin says, “ I don’t think you could hit one if you even tried”. At which point I loaded a rock and took aim, let fly and blew the glass out of it on the first shot!
We received a joint asswhooping and had our shooters confiscated. I had a wrist rocket or two later on but I was a BB, Pellet, and 22 aficionado for the most part.
Bout 1/2- in diameter and could find schit tons of them along the tracks,
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Who in the heck didn’t!😀 Yeah, had one cut from a forked branch with heavy rubber band and a leather pouch. Later on got one of those Wrist Rockets with surgical tube. A fellow could shoot an M-80 quite a ways!😎 Pull in back a good ways, have a buddy light it, watch the fuse burn down a ways, and let fly. Terrorize the neighborhood!😀 I was goofing around and Hit a transformer with a lugnut, and the sparks flew and the lights went out! I put the thing away and played dumb! 😳😀 Lotta fun. Reon
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Still have one. And I carry a leather sling when I am hunting in canyons because you can toss rocks a long ways into canyons to get game moving out of thick brush. This was useful when I grew up in CO and was hunting hillsides with thick scrub oak. Some rocks flung down hillsides helped me get quite a few mulies and elk.
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