Chris, Where were you standing that you got hit with 1" diameter pellets!???!  ???    

Yeah, although never having tried it, I really can't imagine buckshot doing any real damage to anything.  Let me know if you get that squirrel though Brent.  I'd love to hear what affect it had.

Rob

As I'm bored and have currently got bugger all to repair or build and can't go out in case I miss the delivery man I'm going through some old posts.

We don't hear much from chris these days (or me for that matter lol) but check out his slinging game post just above this one.

The man is mad :-) bless him
I love the idea of exploding safety glasses, could this man be a member of jackass ?
:-)

I've never done any serious hunting with a sling, although I have slung in the directions of some animals to see how close I could get and to date, not a single one of them was fast enough to get out of the way until after the projectile was in the air, or had impacted the ground next to them. One bird, don't know the species, but looked to be somewhat meaty(!) actually didn't take off until after the rock passed right in front of it and threw up a shower of leaves. It was looking at me as I whirled the sling around and was staring at me when I released at it,and it was very close to me (a few yards, at most) but just stood there until the rock came almost on top of it, and then exploded off into the air. Some of the area starlings which insist on using our yard and trees as bathrooms don't take off until the tennis ball is right in the middle of them, and my cat used to take off when he see me whirl the sling around, but now that he knows I won't hurt/hunt him with it, he doesn't even flinch when the tennis balls start flying around the yard.

I wonder if a sheep's thick wool would be any form of protection against a shepherd's ceramic bullets tossed at it to get it back in the flock? I don't know. I'm on a computer at work right now working a split shift later on and I'm bored right now on my break so it's just a random thought that occured to me.

Yesterday when I was walking, I saw a flock of geese and had an overwhelming urge to just sling stones at them to see what would happen.
But I didnt have my sling.

Theyre lazy, unnmovable and brazen, they'd be easy targets.
Hmmm.

Well, you can eat a turkey, you don't want to eat the geese I thought about annihilating
Cook those turkeys for dinner!

I say that we slingers hire ourselves out to the cities, as pigeon slayers. Think about it. We get all the practice we want, and the cities get rid of the rats with wings.

Pigeon is rather tasty!
But it might be hard to hit them is such way we can retrieve and use the critters.
If you slay them when in the air they are likely to fall on roofs or behind fences.

Willeke