Those first two pictures look like something Fred Flintstone would take to the range. I may have to try and build one.
For funsies, I did a Giggle search on DIY slingshot rifles: THAT is a serious rabbit hole!
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OK I've been into slingshots since I was 8 years old and my mother wouldn't let me have a BB gun cuz she was afraid I'd get into trouble with it? She bought me a Whamo Sling Shot one Saturday for $1.50. I still have it!
The thing came with instructions on how to shoot it accurately, and I killed more birds shooting marbles than I ever did with my BB gun that came a few years later. I was banned from the Slingshot/Beer Bottle shoot at Circus Circus in Vegas when we went there for vacay in 1962. You had to shoot beer bottles from 15 feet away with marbles and Whamo Slingshots. Not a tough shot!
I won Three Mega Bears before they shut me out. Gave them all to pretty girls, I was 12 at the time!
The kicker on all sling shots or devices of a similar nature is that when drawn the bands must be "Exactly the Same Length," or the shot will be Skewed one way or another. The best way to hold the yoke is sideways so differences in draw length only affect elevation and not windage. The optimum draw length on bands is 6:1
I have had a Slingshot Rifle on the drawing board for many years always looking for a decent Trigger Mechanism to copy. Mine will use 1/2" Surgical Tubing and will be built to shoot my .662 12 ga. 1 oz. round balls or 1/2-5/8" ball bearings.
The "Shot Car" itself, AKA the "Pouch," will be on a track and will be made of Hard Plastic and have a Tapered hole in the front face that the ball rides in. This will insure a "Perfect Release" for every shot.
The whole Idea here is to make something that will actually do some damage. I figure if I can get 250-300 fps out of it I will have something useful out to 50+ yards.
Like mentioned above You tube has lots of these devices shown and some are pretty ingenious. All of them work better than a Hand Held Sling Shot.
Also had visions of a Golf Ball Gun using butane for propellant. I already have targets in mind for that gun! (AssClowns?)
Randy
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Honestly my skin crawls when I think about what one of those broken bands would feel like on the face.
Thanks, but I'll stick with safer activities - like loading Blue Dot in .308Win.
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A gentleman never tells, but can you define "lucky" a little more? I'm jealous already...
Tony
I just noticed in the one pic - he’s shooting a kitchen knife. Things just got serious….
Think you can, or think you can't. Either way your right.
I have two of these - one with a red dot and the other with open sights. Next time I am at the range I will be chronographing stuff and I'll bring these along to see what they actually do. This one is a single flat band mine use four round bands. I typically fire .36 round ball made with contaminated lead.
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I have two of these - one with a red dot and the other with open sights. This one is a single flat band mine use four round bands. I typically fire .36 round ball made with contaminated lead.
As I can actually chronograph these in my own yard I may have numbers for you in the next couple of days
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This reminds me of the time I was up in the cheap seats at RFK stadium watching Edie Brickell open for the Dead and way down in the grass all the way across the field on the sidelines these people had a giant slingshot made of surgical tubing and a funnel. A person each held an end of the tubing and functioned as the frame for the slingshot, and the third guy cocked and fired it. The pouch was a big funnel. They fired a water balloon however far that is and scored a direct hit on me and my buddy. I was mightily impressed with that shot and glad to get wet to beat the heat that day.
The little seeds (balls) from a Linden tree are about 0.36 to 0.38" in diameter. I won a cork pistol at a carnival that shot them about 60' or so.
One of the guys in my gun Club has a Bowling Mall Mortar. With 3 oz. of Black Powder it will shoot a 16 lb ball nearly out of sight strait up. He proof tested it at Coalinga with 1 lb of Black Powder and it shot the ball 1 1/8 Miles. The thing is made out of a 2 ft long piece of Cro-Moly Tubing, with a 3/4" wall thickness. Pretty sure it would survive a pound of Bullseye.
That's me pulling the String of the Blasting Cap he uses to set it off.
Lots of the balls fired end up on the backside of the hill in the background, that is about 400 yards to get past the top of the hill.
Randy
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Regards the broken band concerns… as long as your face is farther from the release mechanism than the relaxed band length, it can’t hit you. You might take a whip to your arm, perhaps some crazy things might happen with the bolt or ball, but your face is out of range.
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My Straight Shooters thread:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...raight-shooter
The Pewter Pictures and Hallmarks thread:
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-and-hallmarks
I once had the pouch of a slingshot snap where the band was fastened. The now uneven pull rotated the fork in my hand and caused me to lose my grip, sending the fork flying right back and splitting my upper lip. I had to come up with a story of a wrench slipping when the doc asked me what had happened. He then gave me two stitches (without anesthesia, as they were fresh out of the stuff) According to science, the lips are the most sensible part of our body - I can attest to that!
Cap'n Morgan
Wayne you need a net to protect your blueberrys. I hae not gotten any thing off my backyard plants. Some thing/some one eats them an they ripen. Neoghbor lady's family raises blueberrys comerciaqlly. They use nets to protect their plants.
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