Very informative. I like that you had slinging to watch while giving the info. I have the attention span of a goldfish these days so that helped keep me interested.

I also enjoy seeing all the different variations of the figure-8. Yours is a bit different than many of the others I've seen.

If you ever feel like posting more about the style you prefer I would be very interested.

Cute video. I like your experiment with the melon , I have shattered bones , punched holes in skulls, snapped wood , the List goes on really. I have no doubt there is enough to power.
Accuracy is probally the biggest problem . You need space to throw and a line of sight.
I have heard only a few accounts of hunting with slings but varied size game and damage. Birds, fish(tesla) ,rodents and even fox and deer. Ammo is another problem because to really get good accuracy you need a nice matching set of ammo.

Really happy to have you onboard I am one of the few that has hunting as my main drive to sling. Most people sling targets or distance not damage

I've been living in Finland for the past 5 years but I'm originally from England. I'm personally not interested in hunting with any weapon (I don't really have anything against it it's just not of interest) but I was wondering what the laws for hunting with a slingshot are in the UK. Just curious really

slingshot/catapult hunting is legal.

Hunting with a sling should not be allowed. The video pretty much ephasises why.

The style might be accurate, but it's almost impossible to generate any real power with that style.

So in the unlikely event you ever hit an animal, all you will do is injure it.
Given that in the uk all you'll be hunting is rabbits and squirrels anyway. What you will do is leave a trail of injured animals behind you.

Any sling style that includes a windup, is not overly suitable for hunting - that's expecting a lot of an animal to not notice all that lead up movement. One reason you need to be a fair distance away.
Hitting a moving animal at 40 yards is extremely difficult.
But it is far more practical than expecting it to stand still while you windmill 10 yards away.

I can think of only two people I know in the slinging world who i would expect to be able to survive by hunting with a sling. Luis and jaegoor.
I've never seen anyone else with their kind of pinpoint accuracy and power at random distance targets.
Both practice obsessively and it shows.

I could do it - but I'd cheat
Exploding glandes, bolas glandes, baiting the killing ground with drugged food etc

Here's a challenge. Go to a clay pigeon range. And if you can hit 50% of the targets with your sling - then you might be good enough to hunt with a sling.

If not, don't even try it - all you'll be doing is pointlessly injuring animals.

I'm not anti hunting. I process a lot of game my dad shoots.
I am against treating it as a game and doing it in a manner where you are 90% likely to injure rather than kill. 


For survival purposes, pack a decent catapult with non-degradable silicon bands and a bag of .38 calibre ball bearings.  When the bearings run out, fit the whisker biscuit you also put in the pack and make short arrows.

Get your sling (paracord if you've got any sense) Make fishing line from the core and use the main cord for a snare. For almost every sling user on the planet, it's probably the best use for a sling in  survival situation  

Kick wrote on Jul 13^th, 2018 at 6:58am:


Hunting with a slingshot is legal provided you use either lead or steel ammo and not stones

Ya I agree. Based on my own experience it really is surprising how much wind up you can get away with when slinging at game.

Another really surprising thing for me was the fact that the Apache throw was actually no less likely to startle game than the figure-8.

Are you planning on making many more videos rebel? I will go ahead and subscribe if so. I need to live vicariously through other slingers at the moment. 

I've subscribed. I try to subscribe to all the active slinging channels.