My constant companion as a lad. If I had my Wrist Rocket with me I was packing big heat. I always packed! I crafted a finger less glove for my right hand to protect the back of it from hits if I messed up my shot. I'd spend hours shooting small pebbles at a board laid out at around 15 to 20 or so degrees so I could here the ricochet and dream of owning a real gun. I shot a lot of little green apples out of it, experimented with triangular tungsten inserts in my teens, and used a few marbles here and there Still have a couple around the house. Haven't used mine since the drunken melee July 4 1988. Lighting M80s at full draw with a cigar.....God loves stupid people....

My favorite ammo was .451" lead balls. Later, I learned they were more accurate in the wrist rocket than my ASM 1858 Remington.

I was Wrist Rocket equipped as a kid and still have one! I kept mine on the handlebar of my bike and could ride no hands while I shot. Ammo of choice was marbles and green acorns.
Top 3 WR shots of my youth:
Green acorn to the chest of a local scrote who dared to fling green walnuts at me while he was on his roof. While escaping my follow up shot, he fell off the roof.
Shot marble into hornets nest from safe distance while stupid neighbor kids stood under it. Many stings then occurred.
Green acorn to bridge of nose of suspected neighborhood bike thief. The resulting blood flow scared me to the point I thought I killed him.
These incidents caused me widespread infamy in my neighborhood and really caused me to sweat out my pre-hire background check.
What a great childhood I had! Found out early in life that there are just some people who need to be shot.
The RR Tracks near my house now supply me with an endless amount of Taconite pellets for ammo. Free.

Oh yea! I loved my wrist rocket as a kid.

I actually just bought a new one last month. I was feeling nostalgic. They’re really cheap on Amazon and I bought a couple packs of 3/8” steel balls to shoot with it.

It’s a lotta fun. It’s pretty damn accurate and packs a surprising punch. It’s been years.

Lucky not to be arrested as a vandal and delinquent.

Oh yeah. I had one along on most of my adventures in the woods as a kid. I had to use rocks for ammo most of the time.

I bought a couple of new ones a few years back. Marbles are my ammo of choice these days.

My dad does. He was really appreciative the day I picked crab apples off the tree to shoot down the wasp nest that was being built at the peak of the gable soffit in front of the house.

I have had a couple of them. Still have one floating around the garage.

Did not have them when I was a kid, so I made my own version. Put a number of tasty critters on the family dinner table with it. Mostly used rocks as "fuel". We had a rock quarry about half a mile from our house. Whole mountain consisted of river rocks in various sizes from a couple inches down to sand grains. Harvested a bunch of them in about half inch size.

As a matter of fact, if memory serves, I still have a packet or 2 of ball bearings.

I watched my brother and his best friend completely disassemble a watermelon sized bald faced hornets nest from a safe distance with a pair of them. Every rock that hit was a complete pass through and it was reduced to grey tatters.

Wrist rocket and cherry bombs were always fun....I'm talking about the real cherry bombs from back in the 60's and 70's....$5.00 for a half a gross box back then.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
The RR Tracks near my house now supply me with an endless amount of Taconite pellets for ammo. Free.

That was my source of ammo as well. Bigger than the packs of ball bearings, fairly round, and free.

I also fondly (I think) remember the exquisite sensation produced when one of the tubes would break and snap you with the fury of Hellfire.

I have the one that belonged to my grandfather. I believe I also have his yellow plastic tub of ball bearings. He was an ace with that thing, sitting on the back porch and pegging "targets" from what seemed like a mile away.

As I look at the yard behind that house now, it's nowhere near as big as it seemed way back then.

That Wrist Rocket provided us a ton of entertainment.

I cannot see one of those things without thinking of the classic Andy Griffith/bird episode.

I had one and enjoyed it right up until the tube snapped where it met the metal ... fully drawn.

Even in SE Wisconsin we used taconite pellets. We had to ride our bikes 4 miles to a particular spot on the tracks that always had them.

I remember getting in trouble for shooting my brother in the thigh with an HTH chlorine tablet.

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Originally posted by Copefree:
Oh yea! I loved my wrist rocket as a kid.

I actually just bought a new one last month. I was feeling nostalgic. They’re really cheap on Amazon and I bought a couple packs of 3/8” steel balls to shoot with it.

The Amazon description says that they won't ship to FL. WTF?

Aha! I can ship to my friend and he will bring it to me next trip. Nope. Won't ship to VA either.

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From the Amazon web page:

This item ships only within the U.S. excluding certain locales such as DE, FL, MA, NJ, IL, MN, NC, SC, TN, VA, and UT.

Enormous fun, until one of the tubes comes loose and whacks you across the cheek.

After that, didn't really trust mine and fell into dis-use.

Though, recently just bought one from "Chinese Freight" in a sale bin.

Now, I can relive my former delinquent youth phase.

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Originally posted by SummersAtTheLake:
Wrist rocket and cherry bombs were always fun....I'm talking about the real cherry bombs from back in the 60's and 70's....$5.00 for a half a gross box back then.

Absolutely the best combination! What a blast!

Lots of memories. I would like to share some of them, but I'm not sure it the statute of limitations has expired.

I shoot my slingshot every day, it seems like a skill to maintain. Metamucil container on a pole about sixty feet, I'm compelled to hit it twice in a row, record fifteen straight.

The most comfortable sling I've used, works with bands or tubes.



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