Slingshot marksmanship

[Dave Gray]

Saved his sister and drove off the bad guy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/14-year-old-boy-slingshot-saves-sister-kidnapping-michigan-woods-alpena/

[Jimmy W]

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[Nicholas Carey]

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Good thing for the bad guy that the 14 year old brother wasn't kicking old school and using a Roman-style sling. Figure 60g projectiles at 75 m/s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmU5tWqmoR0&t=17s

[Tom from Rubicon]

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Jimmy brought up a good one. I love that video.

In the OP that girls brother made some fine hits.

I used to have a Wrist Rocket. Launched a raccoon sideways off a garbage can with a .50 cal lead ball.

I got a forked branch that I saved for such a shooter.

[Breakaway]

A good guy with a gun in the making!


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[skuthorp]

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See also breaking news on that feed
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/14-year...-woods-alpena/

No wonder out visitor is anxious about returning home.

[Canoeyawl]

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I was an ace with a slingshot as a kid. With a bag of marbles I was deadly

[lupussonic]

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I had a black widow wrist mount when I was a kid. I used to fire ball bearings with it and became pretty good.

I played down at a small stream most days splashing about in it and building rock pools and such. I always brought my sling shot and hit leaves high up in trees and old stumps etc. One day I saw a small yellow frog sitting on the bank about 30 feet away just minding it's own business. I aimed and fired, hit it square in the back, instantly dead. I was horrified with myself, and from that day on I understood, once the bullet leaves it's never coming back.

[Gerarddm]

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^ Same with me with a canary, but with a .22.

[The Q]

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Used to make our own catapults. They are legal in the UK as long as they aren't used against people. You have to be 18 to buy a commercial one though.