How to use a slingshot catapult

[NorthernRaider]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43478117@N00/7982452091/

[bigpaul]

(13 September 2012, 14:16)NorthernRaider Wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43478117@N00/7982452091/

i always thought a slingshot was your good old David and Goliath type not your Y shaped bog standard (what we all had as kids..and what i've got now) sort

[Tigs]

i think the americans call a catapult a sling shot

[Hrusai]

(14 September 2012, 05:40)Tigs Wrote: i think the americans call a catapult a sling shot

and like all american words they slowly trickle into england

[Tigs]

wel sling shot is english but it used to just mean the David and Goliath type its the meaning thats changed to mean catapult too!!!

[Hrusai]

(14 September 2012, 06:07)Tigs Wrote: wel sling shot is english but it used to just mean the David and Goliath type its the meaning thats changed to mean catapult too!!!

thats what i mean!

[Tigs]

lol ok

[Paul]

But how many of you actually use one?

I use one on pigeon. Works a treat.
A simple black widow with half strength power bands.
Ammo is 1/2" clay 'dough balls' in warehouses or grain silos.
If it doesn't kill them, it puts them down long enough for me to get to them and dispatch them.

[bigpaul]

i got a wooden catapult at a car boot for 50p, took off the old knackered elastic and replaced it with a double strength shop bought one, now its really powerful

[Tigs]

i use a diablo catapult for scaring / shooting birds