Slingshots/Catapults?

[Holy Herb]

(16 June 2013, 12:56)bigpaul Wrote:

(16 June 2013, 12:40)Holy Herb Wrote:

(16 June 2013, 12:19)bigpaul Wrote:

(16 June 2013, 12:08)Holy Herb Wrote:

(16 June 2013, 12:01)bigpaul Wrote: OH YES! like everything you need to practise.

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have a look at Dave Canterbury videos on "wilderness outfitters", he does a good video on the subject, also check out his other videos..this guy talks sense!

Yeah the video I saw the guy talked about him I'm going to check that out thanks, I need to get a Whisker Biscuit then I'll make one since my slingshot arives in a few days

you don't need an expensive whisker biscuit, all you need is a one and a quarter inch split ring..same as a key ring and 2 small cable ties...

Can you explain how that would work? o.o

you use the split ring in between the Y of the catapult, the 2 cable ties are to hold it in place..they need to be fairly tight or the ring will jump when you fire the arrow, the split ring is simply an arrow rest, the arrow should be a couple of inches longer than the distance you can pull back the elastic, in my case that's 20 inches, this is so it protrudes through the split ring.

Thanks a lot BP

(16 June 2013, 15:26)Hex Wrote: I love my slingshot picked it up a couple of weeks ago. carry it in my bag most days and a packet of mint imperials (they dissolve in rain leaving little to no trace and they're cheap), actually starting to get a bit more accurate with it now but haven't tried taking any game with it yet.

(And I wouldn't use mint imperialism if I did lol)

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*imperials

Stupid auto correct

I've never heard of mint imperials either but I guess they're all roughly the same size and weight, whatever floats your boat

(16 June 2013, 16:36)Highlander Wrote: I have a catapult, but I am not very good at it,... I keep meaning to try out BPs adaption and try a couple of arrows,.. maybe I will be better with that

Let us know how that goes, I'm going to be making one after I get another catapult

(16 June 2013, 19:41)Mortblanc Wrote: If you keep a catapult in our preps remember that the life span of the latex is only about 6 months due to decomposition.

Ozone in the exhaust fumes gets too them as do the UV rays in sun light.

I have one hanging useless on the wall of the shop right now. I have also seen whole rolls of the rubber tubing rot away on the shelf at the local hardware store.

I did not know that so thank you

(16 June 2013, 20:09)Prepper1 Wrote: Anybody got one of the old slings?
the ones that one end is attached around your wrist or finger and you swing it around, there very accurate apparently.

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Some guy from Israel is the Israeli olympic slingshot champion and on the program ancient weapons they did a review and they were mint!!













Plus no rubber to rot...

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SORRY BALAERIC ISLANDS CHAMPION NOT ISRAELI< WHOOPS HOPE HE@S NOT READING THIS>>>>

This is what I was thinking they look pretty hard to be accurate with?