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Had a "wrist rocket" with silicone tubing, shot marbles or ball bearing....was deadly accurate with it. Lol, there is a certain satisfaction you get when you hear that THUD!
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"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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From wooden to wrist rocket...
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Had a "wrist rocket" with silicone tubing, shot marbles or ball bearing....was deadly accurate with it. I too had a Wrist Rocket, but was never deadly accurate with it. I did better with a Crossman 760 and then a 140. Always wanted a Crossman 99 lever action, but opted to spend my allowance on .22 ammo instead of CO2 cartridges. I had a wrist rocket and a Crossman 622 Pell Clip .22.I spent many happy hours in the woods with them.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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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. Made my share of coat hanger ones, but usually cut up a pouch from an old piece of leather if available. Mostly we shot them at each other in my buddy's backyard. Would turn over the redwood patio furniture for barriers and use eugenia berries or some sort of ornamental cherry type things his mom had growing there. There may have been a bird or three removed from his peach tree. china berries.
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I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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My first sling shot was made with the old red innertube strips.
Then I move up to a wrist rocket.
Later on, I bought the surgical tube "rubbers" and hooked them on a forked willow branch.
I'm 71, and still have one I made, for keeping the Deer out of my Wife's flowers. (GRIN!)
Mostly use marbles for ammo now.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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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. Made my share of coat hanger ones, but usually cut up a pouch from an old piece of leather if available. Mostly we shot them at each other in my buddy's backyard. Would turn over the redwood patio furniture for barriers and use eugenia berries or some sort of ornamental cherry type things his mom had growing there. There may have been a bird or three removed from his peach tree. china berries. That might be Roger, gonna look them up, see if the tree looks similar Looks close, but not the same. Berries are different, leaves too I think, but I haven't seen that tree in prolly 30 years. Seems chinaberries are toxic to critters and my friend's guinea pig and all the birds around ate them, the guinea pig would get drunk on the fermenting ones.
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The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Yeppers! Pop made me one!
Except we didn't call them "slingshot" back in the 50's! 😉!
Pop showed me how to use it. I immediately shot the back of my left hand with a rock.
About a week later, I picked it back up and figured out how to NOT shoot the back of my hand!
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Yup -
Forget the brand but aluminum with good bands. Molded and shot 44 caliber lead balls. Shot lots of pheasants, rabbits, ducks, squirrels and a few geese. Very effective where hunting with firearms was not allowed but hunting was.
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I had a sling shot and a wrist rocket .
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Why do I have to press 1, for English?
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Yes, several but the one I still have is a folding Wrist Rocket that rode in my back pocket.
It was easier to sneak around with, concealed carry...
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You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
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Heck ya, then a wrist rocket.
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I did, but that wasn't what we called them back then...  Yep. GrandDad carved me my first one. He called them something else. Not a slingshot. 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Is the pope Catholic ? Used to build my own....
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
GeoW, The "Unwoke" ...Let's go Brandon!
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I did, but that wasn't what we called them back then... Yep. GrandDad carved me my first one. He called them something else. Not a slingshot. 🤠 Catapult? Shangai? Ballista?
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Just use 1/2” grade 2 nuts, $2.99 a pound from the Rural King
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Rural King is the only place to shop.
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