Originally posted by Mintwithahole.
The only people here in the UK who use slingshots are anglers! They use them to throw maggots out to the centre of a lake or stream before casting off. Personally I'd still rather have gun, bow or crossbow than a slingshot or catapault.

Never fished in my life and my Barnett Diablo is the obligatory mutts.

Utterly amazed (and giggled like a girl) to discover they're illegal in NY. I honestly thought us Brits were the castrated masses.

Oh Mint. Given your location your view might be be jaded. I'm under the impression that most scousers carry illegal firearms.

Not a good choice of weaponry

takes to much effort and reloading takes to long

My friends and I payted with air rifles and slingshots when we were in our early teens, 12/13 yeasrs old. A local harware store sold them..this was going intot he late 80's. SO my friend bought one. One day, their was a squirell on a fence. He shot a metal ball at it..and it wnet right throught the squirell! I wasnt present, he was telling me about it. About 2 or 3 minutes later, the squirell jsut keeled over and died. That how we found out, they aint toys like grandpa played with when they were kids! these things are lethal weapons!
I do agree with with one of the other members here...it would make you an easy target, as yuode have to stand up..unless yuo were in fact, quick enough to manuever and duck in time, to reload and repaet the entire process, making sure each hit was a heart, lung, liver or headshot.
Slinghot sniper come to mind lol. but thier is noise form the backlash of the sling releasing the ball....but it does seem to give off a noise tha knida echos, so it would totaly give away yuor direct position. YEs they are Illegal in NY,a nd here in CT too.

Wristrockets are illegal in many if not most states. HOWEVER, they are pretty easy to make and/or order in parts.

One advantage of them though is you can shoot almost anything in them. Darts, arrows, rocks, bullets, really anything.

Far as questioning their ability to kill something at range, when I was young I used to have one. There is still an arrow sticking in a tree 30 feet up that I shot with my wristrocket many many years ago. Not as accurate as a bow but it definately does work.

I find it bizarre that in certain US states the slingshot is banned...whats that all about?Has there been a glut of injuries through their use or something?
Surely guns are more dangerous-are they banned in the same states?
What about bows and arrows-are they banned in the same states?

I used to own a Black Widow catapult/wrist rocket when I was a kid in the UK.
It was properly badass with a bit of practice-me and my buddies used to use small throwing stars as ammo...before they were banned.

Great fun shooting at my old shed door,not so great when the ammo hits your hand on the way out!!!

Now I'm curious. I wonder what damage a frozen paintball used with an ordinary slingshot can do? Would it be more powerful than with a paintball rifle? Just thinking, my parents gave me and my brother sling shots when we were little kids and we happened to have a loose stone driveway. Our target practice was knocking pine cones out of very tall pine trees. You just didn't want to shoot straight up. If you did, then you better run.

Originally posted by SlasherOfVeils
Wristrockets are illegal in many if not most states. HOWEVER, they are pretty easy to make and/or order in parts.

I think you are mistaken on the legality issue. I have yet to visit a stae where they are illegal.



[edit on 29 PMu1 09 by jameslewin]

for those of you who want to put your lives on the line with a slingshot feel free

my first choice will always be a gun
my second choice will always be a gun
my third choice will always be a gun

and my last choice will always be a gun.

When I was young I made a 6 foot wide sling shot from weaving elastic bands together into an elastic rope. It rested on top of a pole pounded into the ground. I fired rocks the size of gulf balls so far away that I never knew where they landed. It was also good for arrows made from wooden broom handles. I also shot off some home made gasoline filled soda bottles with stick matches extending from the point of impact. You should have seen those go off. In all, with one of those I could have done some real damage at more than a football field's distance.

I also experimented with hand slings as well using different types of rubber. Now that I think of it, I'm wondering how some bunji cords would work.

there's no doubt that a slingshot and a bow gun are the best survival tools to consider, before wasting your money on a bb or pellet gun. you cant make bbs or pellets in the field very easily, where as you can make everything for your slingshot and blow gun from scratch. any ole tire innerliner/tube will make you a slingshot band.