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Post by woodyz on Aug 31, 2014 20:03:34 GMT -7
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Post by orly152 on Sept 3, 2014 17:11:30 GMT -7
So which one did you get woodman ?
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Post by woodyz on Sept 3, 2014 19:29:24 GMT -7
I got a gray scout, 3 3 packs of band sets in nitro-sealed packages and two extra sets of flip clips. I wanted to get the red/white/blue model but managed to talk myself out of that bright white. To easy to see.
I want to see how the flip clips work/last and if I can use inter tube bands on them. Getting a good attachment of the bands when using inter tube cuts has always been an issue. I want to see if I can make a composite plywood base and use the flip clips to hold the bands. If it works I will just buy more flip clips for a kit.
I must have 10 of the things around.
Remember putting the Whisker Biscuit on one and shooting crossbow bolts and shooting deer/rabbits/tree-rats with them?
I like to use white marbles so I can watch them travel.
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Post by garret on Sept 4, 2014 2:01:54 GMT -7
i do like the flipkung, minimalist is always good in my book
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Post by geron on Sept 4, 2014 4:05:10 GMT -7
I use forks I find in the woods. Dogwood and Rhododendron make good ones. Make a pouch from the tongue off an old leather boot. Use No. 107 alliance rubber bands (buy'em by the pound) and use string off a feed sack to tie'em together. Rufus Hussey style (modified). I make the pouches smaller and the forks a bit shorter. No two ever alike though. No. 105 rubber bands work well for shorter armed folks. Yep. I was raise poor next door to a Grandmother that survived the depression. Reckon she saved everything she got her hands on. She showed me how to unravel the string on a feed sack and wind it on a ball. Caveat: I really do like these fancy flips though!!!
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Post by missasip on Sept 13, 2014 20:08:45 GMT -7
Well I have two Marksman brand slingshots and I love 'em! Cheap, accurite, quiet and powerful. I too like to use the white marbles. I also use regular marbles as they seem to offer the best ammo for the money. I use some 3/8" ball bearings from time to time. I have taken 3 grays and a red from my 3 pecan trees...(nut bandits)
I have spare bands and maybe 1000 marbles. It may come in handy some day.
Jimmy
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Post by angelhelp on Sept 14, 2014 5:50:31 GMT -7
They can work well when dropped too
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Post by offtrail on Oct 12, 2016 15:04:31 GMT -7
One draw back for using slingshots in cold climates...they don't work. Some may argue but here in Ohio when the cold weather hits, you might as well hang up that slingshot. I like hunting with a slingshot, it's quiet hard hitting and very accurate. Ammo for most of us lays on the ground, free for the picken. Just though i'd bring up about the cold weather effecting the elasticity of the bands...just don't have the snap that's needed for a hard hitting shot.
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Post by offtrail on Oct 12, 2016 15:19:37 GMT -7
Well I have two Marksman brand slingshots and I love 'em! Cheap, accurite, quiet and powerful. I too like to use the white marbles. I also use regular marbles as they seem to offer the best ammo for the money. I use some 3/8" ball bearings from time to time. I have taken 3 grays and a red from my 3 pecan trees...(nut bandits) I have spare bands and maybe 1000 marbles. It may come in handy some day. Jimmy My dad worked in a steel mill for some 30 years, both ends of the mill were opened at all times and rats would come in the building as well as pigeons.The rats were bad enough but the pigeons would perch above and rain crap on the workers. They tried all kinds of ammo and they all worked but nothing worked like short pieces of wire...that's right wire. Not sure of the gauge but something stiff, cut at both ends...very sharp. Any rat or pigeon hit with a piece of wire shot from a slingshot never got away. Now I've never tried this myself so not sure how it will fly but you know it has to be deadly.
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