How big animals is it possible to hunt with a sling?

Gard

Very interesting question... I hope anyone having experience about it and would answer it...Sounds like a cool thing to do in summer... Running around in the bush and shooting moose and other animals :D

I think deer and such would be out of the question, unless  you have a very large sling. Might be possible to temporarily stun them though.
 It sounds feasible to take out fox and yotes with them. Distance would be a determining factor in the strength of the shot.
 Rabbits and such, go for it.

When I was in Scotland this summer, there were rabbits, hundreds, everywhere!
Oh, if I just had my sling then...

Gard

I'm going to try that when I get a little bit better :D

Has anyone ever tried hunting penguins with a sling before? And was that a good expirience?

Yeah, I did once. You wouldn't believe the fuss the guys at the Aquarium put up! Sheeesh!

I was in walmart today and they started playing Christmas music, which is one of the three things in this world that can send me off into a rabid fit without delay, and I started patting my pockets, looking around for my sling, which I remembered I had left in my truck. Bad time to be without a sling, I thought.

Coulda picked up some egg sinkers and made the agony worth while!

Ive hit  killed a goose targets in the water are easier

What type of ammo did you use to kill a goose? Where did you hit it?
I've also noticed it's easier to hit targets in water, when trying to hit ducks.

Gard

just a rock I picked up it was a very lucky shot. only problem is now someone is going to yell at us or hittin gamebirds on the ground ::)

Just check your laws and make sure it's legal to hunt.

I took aim for a goose on a lake once. I missed by about a foot, and managed to splash it. I would've tried again, but then I realized that I probably would've killed it and I had no intention of taking it home with me, so I stopped.

wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2005 at 6:34pm:

Just check your laws and make sure it's legal to hunt.

It's not

Just curious. What did the penguin taste like? :P

Average rocks could take stuff out easily and I've heard of some people hunting deer with slings. I'm guessing they used larger stones, but if they can get the big rocks to hum when they leave the sling like my little rocks do, it seems more possible.

As long as you can get the rock out fast enough to either brain or stun the deer, you should be able to finish it off with either a spear or a knife. Personally, you wouldn't find me getting within 10 feet of a stunned deer, but if I thought I could kill it outright, a sling might do it. Your accuracy, though, would have to be nothing short of godly.

Yes, a head shot should be able to instantly kill a deer, but accuracy would be tough!

my dad told me many warriors along time ago destroyed great hordes of troop by using slings so if it could kill humans it could probably kill deers if... your good inaf

Do you guys have any idea of making a sling with homemade materials???

Yesterday I was hunting pidgeons, me slinging stones, my father with shotgun. We didn't get anything, we didn't even see any pidgeons, but wee saw six woodcocks (the dictionary's fault if the name's wrong ::)), but you don't see them untill they suddently fly up 2 meters in front of you, and they're so fast, so you've got no chance taking them with sling.

Gard

Edit: A friend of me says they're called quails...

this subject has been covered a few times before I shall bring up the old line in a moment.  mean while check out the article on the apache slinghttp://www.slinging.org/22.html

wrote on Nov 6^th, 2005 at 8:10am:

Do you guys have any idea of making a sling with homemade materials???

Sure, you can make a sling out of something as simple as a couple of shoelaces and a rectangle cut from an old pair of jeans, or the leather uppers from a shoe, preferably a leather one, like a boot. I used a couple of shoelaces and a rectangular cut of fabric from an old pair of curtains, for mine. I just cut the rectangle twice as long as I wanted it, folded it over, and superglued (okay, yes, I should have SEWN it, but I was in a hurry to make a sling) the end, punched a couple of holes in the end, put the shoelaces through, made a knot in one lace and a loop in the other, and put a tennis ball in the pouch and launched it. Worked just fine. Of course, it looked like crap, but it was enough to get me hooked.

But what does the Penguin taste like? :P

Like a really weird mixture of chicken, fish, and ostrich with slight bouquet of tender beef and the tiniest hint of dodo bird if roasted. LOL ;)

And you came by this knowledge how, exactly? :D

hey asl im male   14 male tennessee

When I was about six years old, I accidentally got seperated from my parents and our party on a group trip to antarctica. I survived three days in a blowing snowstorm by huddling in with a group of penguins, eating several of the smaller ones to keep me warm. I would then decorate myself in their skins to look like another penguin. And that, ladies and gents, is how I came about that info! ;)

MammothHunter you DA MAN! ;D

Do you still have the penguin skins? Pictures...? ;D

Gard

Hey I had penguin skins! Actually, I had whole penguins - a freezer full of them. Frozen into "lifelike" swimming postures and "mounted" on stainless steel probes...

I was working on a project to investigate the hydrodynamic properties of diving birds, and we scanned the birds using a laser profiling system, generating patterns that were used to cut 3d models that we tested in a towing tank (think 100m long single lane pool).

Hey look! One of the papers is online: The Journal of Experimental Biology

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/mhborstad/Guim.jpg
Ok, that's a picture of the development of one of the Guillemot models, but I had penguins too, honest!

Those birds stunk. Still, I wish I still had a couple of the models kicking around. They were really cool. I was (in)famous as "that penguin guy" around my department, a reputation not toned down at all when my next project saw me bringing whole muskox hides into the lab...

I'm guessing that penguin wouldn't be a vary tasty treat. One of the reasons that my birds smelled so bad is that they are all fish eaters, and the oily fishyness flavours them nicely. "Grain fed" poultry is common for a reason! :D

Matthias

hey this is jt again

I bet those frozen penguins would make great ammo though. ;D

Hey badgerdude... I'm not so god at jokes. so i ask for to be sure...Did you actually shot at penguins?

Hey maybe we could write a New paper on the Aerodynamic Properties of Frozen Diving Birds. What do you think Mattias?

Sorry, I meant Matthias. :-[

I don't think he cares realy much... ::)

I'd love to have a sling large enough to sling a whole, frozen chicken, just so I could truthfully say I have. I mean, in a list of weirdest things slung, that would have to be up there. Looking back on it, at one time, we did have a list like that. Now where did that list get off to?

I think Matthias penguins beat your chickens in the weird dept. :D

LOL ;D what about slinging computer parts? maybe not so wild that slinging penguins,but....

wrote on Nov 17^th, 2005 at 8:31pm:

Hey maybe we could write a New paper on the Aerodynamic Properties of Frozen Diving Birds. What do you think Mattias?

It's actually much the same thing (aero/hydro). The only real difference when you are working with fluids are their density and viscosity (how "thick" they are) - when we test different objects, and particularily when working with scale models, we need to adjust the speed as well. For instance, I've tested submarines in a wind tunnel. You need to run the windspeed faster than water, but otherwise the results are comparable to testing in water, which tends to be more difficult.

Heh, you could add some nice fletching to the mounting rods and play a wicked game of illegal lawn darts. I think by the time I was finished, those models cost upward of 1500$ each though, not to mention being the only set in existence, so we tried to take pretty good care of them. One of the profs used to borrow the penguin for his lectures though, and tended to get carried away and start using him as a pointer.

No worries on spelling either - a good tip though for everyone is to take advantage of the "modify" button on your own posts if you want to correct something. If you look back through my posts, you'll see how often I get one right first try! :)

Matthias

This gets better and better. A illegal game of Lawn Penguins with a one of a kind set costing over $1500. Now thats something for the man who has everything. You ought to put that on Ebay! Just in time for the holidays........HAHAHA ;D ;D ;D  Or maybe the holiday cover of Neiman-Marcus ;D ;D ;D

LOL bighakuna ;D

just bringing this to the front for those interested in the topic

actuly rereading this thread I relize a lot has changed
In this thread it is mentioned that acuracy is a problem
But now There are many of us who will admit we could hit the vitals area of a deer say at twenty yards