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posted May 25, 2023 03:58 PMHide Post
We used to take tissue paper and make a ball with some #8 shot and shoot doves off the wires with our wrist rockets. The old man used to wonder why his bags of shot were always light and why we had so many doves in the freezer. We used to shoot carp also with ball bearing balls, he worked for a bearing manufacturer so we always had an endless supply. When the carp were spawning, the wrist rocket was a formidable weapon on them
 
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posted May 25, 2023 04:24 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Thanks.. Did not realize we had a Biblical scholar on board!


Well, there wasn't a lot of surgical tubing available in the Levant in 1000 B.C.




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posted May 25, 2023 07:57 PMHide Post
what can I say the good nuns skimmed over the weapons used and emphasized the triumph of good over evil. The cool priest in the parish would have played it straight.
 
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posted May 26, 2023 12:36 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by 1s1k:
I had the wrist rocket when I was a kid. I remember seeing a bird on a branch probably 30 yards away so I decide to fire a marble at the bird. The bird never flinched and dropped dead straight off that branch. I don’t know if it was from astonishment from the miraculous shot or the fact that I didn’t really want to kill this bird.

I have hunted many times over the course of my life and for whatever reason that little bird still bothers me. I suppose because it was a waste and no need to do it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0TRinK4ZLA

The above classic episode is of Opie Taylor slingshotting a bird.


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posted May 26, 2023 02:05 PMHide Post
As a mean little kid in South MS, my wrist rocket was used to shoot a plethora of birds and squirrels. My brother and I got good enough to (occasionally) shoot birds in mid flight, and a perched bird in my grandmother's bird bath was a goner...


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posted May 26, 2023 03:03 PMHide Post
All you Wrist Rocket fans, go to about 6:20 in the vid I posted at the bottom of page one and look at Alien clamps. These can mount to Wrist Rockets and give you a lot more band/tube options, very easy to use. You would still have to fit a pouch to whatever band/tube you choose but the Aliens hugely expand the WW's versatility. There are many YouTubes on bandset making.




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posted May 26, 2023 07:05 PMHide Post
I had an Opie sling shot when I was a kid.
Easily made.



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posted May 26, 2023 07:44 PMHide Post
Marksman one worked fine until the plastic end cap wore through then sliced the tube. Watch them for wear.
 
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posted May 27, 2023 06:55 AMHide Post
Had a few wristrockets as a kid. We used to use the ball bearings we would find on the train tracks.


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