Maybe not quite as bad as it sounds...  the stadium had one end open back then and we could see the playing field and whether or not it had anyone standing on it..They were leaving a few lights on by then so we could see...  an American sized football field is pretty large so we were confident there was little chance of us not landing a strike near its middle and we also timed the fuses so we would achieve an air burst.   We were lucky no one got hurt and you are right in assuming were were young and stupid... former's not longer true... not so sure about the latter.  Evrything went well in the stadium but while shooting our last arrow we lost the nock off the shaft, it dropped on the ground in front of us and we found out first hand about how much energy we were packaging... "up close and personal".  Our location was immediately disclosed and we were both a percussion shocked and flash blinded for a couple minutes.  We got out and yes again... were very lucky no one got seriously hurt.  ABOVE IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR ANYONE UNDER ANY CONDITIONS.   DUMB MISTAKES BY OTHERS HAVE NO NEED OF REPEATING BY ANY WHO HAVE BEEN WARNED... AND YOU HAVE BEEN.

Every Easter Sunday we throw our eggs we colored the night before.

During winter, an ice ball.

slingbadger wrote on Apr 10^th, 2007 at 10:51am:

I make my own. Pretty fun to shoot but easy to lose living in the woods and all...need to wear a filter mask so you dont get screwed with lead poisoning.

Did it survive? And wouldn't it jump out of the pouch the moment you put it in?

Dravonk wrote on Apr 30^th, 2007 at 8:02am:

not if you stun it...It was a while back and I dont remember going to look...were in drought season here in Georgia so I wont be able to try that again for quite some time

i love fire crackers. we have these waterproof ones that can tip a loaded canoe over. my dad wont let me near em though.

[quote]we have these waterproof ones that can tip a loaded canoe over. my dad wont let me near em though.  [/quote]

lmao -  I can't imagine why - umm I'm not sure I'd call those firecrackers I'd call them 'fishing aids' or thunder flashes :-)

I was in Guantanoma bay cuba many years ago and we made some slings out of the webbing of an old dragshoot, which is used to slow airplanes down when they land. The webbing was about 3 or 4" wide and we doubled it and used the loop at the bottom for a sling pocket.  I guess the length doubled was about 4' (120mm).  You had to throw a pretty big rock in order to be able to feel it in the sling.  Memory grows dim after all of the years but I think we were throwing those big stones over 400 feet.  There was a big ravine with a road on the other side and we were all eventually able to hit the road.  The road made a bend around a hill and there had been no traffic on it all morning.

I launched a big stone and while it was enroute to the road an officer in a jeep appeared from around the hill.  The stone landed about 20 feet in front of him.  He slammed on the brakes and jumped out to see where the stone had come from.  We were so far away I don't think he ever considered the possibility that it may have come from our location.  We were all amazed at the power and range of the sling.  After almost hitting the officer we quit using slings.  I haven't thought about in years until I blundered on this site.  My grandsons and I were out slinging pine cones awhile ago.  It's still fun.  The male pine cones are pretty dense and sort of oval shaped.  They go pretty good, (Better than sand).