Welcome Rebelprepping!
Good slinging, but prefer to hunt lifeless.

Mersa wrote on Jul 13^th, 2018 at 5:26pm:


I agree all hunting should be as humane as possible. Personally i'm developing it for a shtf or survival situation where i need the protein and am not doing it for pleasure. I will be testing different types of ammo

I personally feel that using the sling nowadays is not the most humane way of dispatching an animal (Without a head shot), now that there are firearms or bows/crossbows, where accuracy and also killing potential are much higher. Nor is it the most effective... and In my opinion it should probably be banned except maybe for water-fowl or small bird hunting.

However, if you are not so inclined towards humane animal treatment, such as in the 'Ancient days', Sling users probably were much more effective in that even a leg shot against small game would likely disable them enough that a hunter could get-up close with a cudgel and beat the crap out of said animal. It wouldn't surprise me if you could take a deer out with a leg or chest shot enough that you might be able to get close and club it/spear it, though I've never hunted before and could be totally wrong. I wouldn't use one for boar hunting, though!

These are just my thoughts, anyway.

Jaegoor’s right. Even with a hunting rifle and ammo that’s made specifically for what you’re hunting, you may still have to stalk a wounded animal.

As far as pigs go... The only way to boar hunt with a sling is to use hand grenades as ammo

SHTF... It would be far better to stockpile some food than rely on slinging to feed you in a shtf scenario. One injury and you’d go hungry... plus exposure to the elements when you are already calorie limited may lead to sickness, so it’s better to avoid the need to go out hunting or at least keep enough stockpiles to choose your timing for when the weather is good. I would use a sling if it was my only option, but it wouldn’t be part of any plan, and I wouldn’t want to bet my life on it unless I had practiced for an hour a day with rocks for a few years like wannabebushcrafter has been doing.

In a survival situation, I guess it depends on the target. You would probably do better with a sling and handfuls of gravel for dove/pigeon hunting, even without a lot of practice, but the pointy stick might be better for small mammals. If I had my choice, I would take a shotgun or a .22 with a suppressor, but if I really had a choice, I’d rather not need to hunt at all to survive. So far, that’s been a very successful strategy, so I don’t have much experience with the other