Looks good.

Chris

I got some marbles and have only shot it a few times.  Yes it seems that shooting like a bow would be the ticket, but I have not yet quite figured it out.

The sights are quite difficult to get used to for me.  They make me anchor much higher than I'm used to with a slingshot.

I'll let you know later how this all works out.

jeff <><

I used to get the best hand catapults and rubbers from the Fred's COP ("Catalog Order plan", not a policeman! ) catalogue.  They offered "Magnum" bands made of great surgical tubing that made the rocks "twang" loudly nearly every time after impact with the target!  They were load s of fun, and then the Fred's store discontinued their excellent calalogue order program, and I had to look elsewhere.  I even bought a couple of these sighted "high tech" catapults for personal protection at a sports shop in Saudi Arabia  after hearing some pretty disturbing stories just in the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy.  Fortunately, the Kingdom is usually pretty quiet, even in the worst of times, and I never had to use one of these little jewels except on rubble piles in the desert.  I agree that an instinctive shooting technique works best for me.  Snap hip-shooting can even be very useful with a hand cat.  I also think that steel ball bearings (around .30 cal. up to a half-inch or so in diameter) tend to be among the best choices for ammo, although a good hard rock of the right size is always also a workable option.

Dear NWMANITOU,

Thanks for your concern, but don't worry!   I'm no longer there in the desert.  I chose to stay within the bounds of the law, which allowed me to purchase and carry a catapult, sling, improvised bola weapon, etc., so that's what i did.  Besides, they are quieter, and less conspicuous, and just as potentially useful against the types of situations I was likely to run into there in the Kingdom at the time.

Now, I'm in Indonesia on holiday 8), and the low intensity threat is pretty much of a similar nature, but not quite as urgent and with a little more legal leeway, to say the least!

Of course, I agree with you that, given a choice and a likelihood of a specific encouter with a conventional threat, the firearm approach would be preferable.  With a more nebulous and infrequent type of threat, awareness, planning, improvisation combined with maintaining a low profile and high mobility tend to be more useful than hardware.

Wild slingshot there, TechStuff.  Be careful it does not pull you thru the forks.

jeff <><

hey techstuff i have the same sling shot put a second band on it got even more power
I modified mine slightly so it fires arrows
two bands give me a 45 pound pull. HMMM looks like there room for a third band to me

How fast do they go? releatively?