Newest interest

[illmade2]

Ok I guess they can only loosely be considered a traditional weapon but they have become my latest interest or maybe I'm just going through my second childhood, but it seems I'm not alone. Slingshots aka. catapults to the Brits seem to be making a comeback, and while not as deadly as a sword they are a whole lot cheaper and a lot of fun.:)
http://talk.slingshots.com/forums/index.php

http://slingshotforum.com/

The first is a 40 yr old Victor 20 and the second is a natural fork I made myself.
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[bobO]

Great links. I always have a wrist rocket or two laying around. What ever happened to our sling guy?

[illmade2]

There was a break in the weather yesterday, we had a bright mild winter day. I had given my Girlfriend the natural fork I had made and she wanted to go try it out, so off into the woods we go a small pouch of marbles for each of us. So her new slingshot tucked into her back pocket and with German Shepard in tow we headed out. Our target was a 6 in tree truck at 15 yards after the first couple of shots she was hitting the trunk 8 out of 10 times while I was hitting about 6 out of 10 with my Victor. Had a lot of fun, but the German Shepard didn't seem to be to excited about someone else playing with sticks.
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[Stephen Foster]

I grew up hunting with primative weapons for food. My dad was 83rd infantry rangers and a total $%%hole.If we ate meat ....family of eight..,I killed it. One tool I would use was a Bollo made from clothes line and old spark plugs.The clothes line is like the Mercedes three point star with a spark plug (more heavy than rock) attached to each end. I got good at this and more often than not took my prey,....not much more often but still..we had meat .

[bobO]

Two weapons I've yet to try and have always wanted to, A bolo and that spear throwing thing begins with an A... We do alot of hunting here in NE PA. Well not me any more but dang near everyone I know. They shut down darn near everything on the first day of deer season, even the highschools!

[illmade2]

Two weapons I've yet to try and have always wanted to, A bolo and that spear throwing thing begins with an A... We do alot of hunting here in NE PA. Well not me any more but dang near everyone I know. They shut down darn near everything on the first day of deer season, even the highschools!
I assume you mean the atlatl Bobo, Here's a pretty good site on them, I haven't looked at it more than in passing since they really aren't my thing.
http://www.atlatls-n-more.com/

[zentredi]

Two weapons I've yet to try and have always wanted to, A bolo and that spear throwing thing begins with an A... We do alot of hunting here in NE PA. Well not me any more but dang near everyone I know. They shut down darn near everything on the first day of deer season, even the highschools!tried a bolo once... on my foster-brother, boy did i get an ***-whuppin for that. BobO i grew up in W.V. there they do shut down everything and i mean EVERYTHING on the first day of deer season. by the way Illmade did you try a wrist-rocket? those things are BAD ! you can actually hunt with them. as for the atlatl never got the hang of them easier to shoot an arrow out of a bow than sling one from a stick.

[zentredi]

glad to see some one is no longer with us, as bugs use to say what a maroon.

[Firehand10k]

I had a nice slingshot when I was in college. It had the forearm brace but could be folded to slip into a pocket. It was so much more concealable than the BB guns my buddies were running around with and less likely to get me kicked off campus if it was found on me. Only down side was that I always had to wait to shoot targets until we were about done. Even after I dropped from 1/2 inch to 1/4 inch shot I usually destroyed the target ,while the BBs made their cute little pinging sound as they bounced off. (maybe I really sound have found something better to shoot than empty glass bottles)

[illmade2]

You could have shoot the guys with the BB guns....

[Firehand10k]

I could have shot them with that but I actually had a bb gun too for that purpose. They didn't like it though because they had pump ones but i had a CO2 repeater with a 50 bb reservoir. They tried to talk me into using my single shot pellet gun when we went to play war but once i demonstrated that it was competition grade and would penetrate 1/2 in dry wall and imbed in a wodden brace behind it they dropped that idea.
I was never mean enough to shoot them with the slingshot. I knew how much more it would really hurt.