Catapult for hunting post SHTF

[CharlesHarris]

As a kid I have used a catapult to dispatch animals caught on my trapline, muskrat, beaver, fox, raccoon, coyote and bobcat.

A US 00 (.33 inch) or SSG buckshot in the head from about 10 feet is more effective than an air rifle or even a .22 LR bullet.

Quieter too!

It only takes a velocity of about 60 m/s (200 fps) for a 3.85 gram (60 grain) lead 00 buckshot to perforate a human skull (5.3 ft.-lbs) This has been well documented in police forensic literature and is quite within the capability of a home-made catapult constructed using 7mm diameter latex surgical tubing. You could do as every bit as well within the 6 ft.-lb. legal limits for an air pistol and at some distance with a legal-limit air rifle.