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LukeWebb Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 801 New Brunswick Canada Gender:	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #15 - May 24^th, 2010 at 2:09am I have some slingshots, but I have never hunted with them, (should try for some squirrels I guess...) but you can also make them if you can get ahold of any surgical tubing. That is really what the bands are made of anyway. What else do you guys use to make a good elastic on them?
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danny Junior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 57	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #16 - May 24^th, 2010 at 5:32am surgical tube is too thick which leads to inaccurate shooting. much air inside in it and will lead to inaccurate shooting with loud sound. now i will teach you a way to get rid of air inside. http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjI4MTExMjA=.html
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Reply #17 - May 24^th, 2010 at 6:36am

LukeWebb wrote on May 24^th, 2010 at 2:09am:

I have some slingshots, but I have never hunted with them, (should try for some squirrels I guess...) but you can also make them if you can get ahold of any surgical tubing. That is really what the bands are made of anyway. What else do you guys use to make a good elastic on them?

I was looking over slingshot forum the other day and most of them cut up this and use it for a slingshots: http://www.yogaaccessories.com/Thera-Band-Exercise-Band--Gold-25-mils_p_121448.h...

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Reply #18 - May 24^th, 2010 at 11:27am

I can't decide if "Danny" is a commercial spammer or just enthusiastic....He did send me an e-mail to the effect that he was a dealer in the mechanical slingshots.

I read a book on the mechanics/science of slingshots recently (actually, on "human powered" projectiles generally) and the guy went into considerable detail. He found that there were no real standards on "surgical" tubing, as it was not made for this purpose. One lot might be good, another might have considerably less velocity and strength.
He also found that holding the weapon fully drawn for more than a second or so seriously decreased the power. Seems the latex rubber "adjusts" to it's stretched condition.

I see the current rage in commercial slingshots is flat-band rubber material, specially made for the industry.

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Reply #19 - May 24^th, 2010 at 4:17pm

Bikewer wrote on May 24^th, 2010 at 11:27am:

I can't decide if "Danny" is a commercial spammer or just enthusiastic....He did send me an e-mail to the effect that he was a dealer in the mechanical slingshots.

I read a book on the mechanics/science of slingshots recently (actually, on "human powered" projectiles generally) and the guy went into considerable detail. He found that there were no real standards on "surgical" tubing, as it was not made for this purpose. One lot might be good, another might have considerably less velocity and strength.
He also found that holding the weapon fully drawn for more than a second or so seriously decreased the power. Seems the latex rubber "adjusts" to it's stretched condition.

I see the current rage in commercial slingshots is flat-band rubber material, specially made for the industry.

flat bands are nice because they last longer, and are just as good, you can also make flat bands have a shootover style, which makes the slingshot more accurate.

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Reply #20 - May 24^th, 2010 at 7:17pm

Bikewer wrote on May 24^th, 2010 at 11:27am:

I can't decide if "Danny" is a commercial spammer or just enthusiastic....He did send me an e-mail to the effect that he was a dealer in the mechanical slingshots.

Yeah... Me too. The dankung thing i said before must have aggravateded him, cause he sent me something about how his western customers emailed him because dankung botched up their slingshots.

On the other hand, Danny just seems to be trying to really sell some stuff. Spam is repeatedly bombarding the forum with the same posts, like the kim kardashian sex tape or the russian post.

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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #21 - May 24^th, 2010 at 7:28pm i assume he's angry about the Dakung comparison because they are reknowned for selling cheap and bad quality slingshots. it's like asking this forum why it has nothing to do with slingshots, since the name depicts that.
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Kjev Senior Member Offline Limits exist only in your mind Posts: 299	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #22 - May 25^th, 2010 at 12:25am I'm glad you all were able to get more out of what he wrote than I did. I couldn't quite make out what he was saying other than Dankung was in there somewhere, and apparently he sold something. I chalked it up to an illiterate spammer.
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HurlinThom Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Leverage artillerist Posts: 1458	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #23 - May 25^th, 2010 at 3:02pm Not quite spam in my opinion, but commercial posts anyhow. His English is better than my Chinese, for whatever that's worth. Thom
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Re: pistol slingshot
Reply #24 - May 26^th, 2010 at 12:02am

Here's mine. Made of a 2 dollar slingshot band from wammalart
And a peice of mulberry i cut in my yard. She's a daisy lemme
Tell ya. Great for runnin off strays in the yard if i don't want to
Seriously hurt em. One good pop in the flank that danged
Pit bull won't come back around for a while. I can hit a half
Dollar about 3 of 5 times at 15 yards with it. Grew up with
One in my pocket. For huntin i think i'll stick to my bow though.

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leadrocks Senior Member Offline stay simple. serve god. live free. Posts: 337 custer city, oklahoma Gender:	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #25 - May 26^th, 2010 at 12:12am Whoops forgot somethin:)
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: pistol slingshot Reply #26 - May 26^th, 2010 at 3:55pm nice. i would make one if i had some good slingshot bands, but since i don't i can't. give it a few more days and it might be 4 out of 5. i find that within six hours of shooting i can be good enough to hunt rabbits.
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Re: pistol slingshot
Reply #27 - May 28^th, 2010 at 3:06pm

we're currently taking the side that he's not an actual spammer. He engages in dialogue and answers questions.

Can't knock him for wanting to sell his gear, paleoarts does, and as long as the forum isn't turned into a shopfront as such - ratman and I are happy to keep him around.

It's a fine line but at the moment we think he's on the right side of it.

Anyone feels otherwise let us know

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