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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #45 - May 3rd, 2021 at 9:08am
 
Staffsling. Why has nobody said that?
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Reply #46 - May 4th, 2021 at 6:27am
 
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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #47 - May 4th, 2021 at 8:30am
 
MikeG wrote on May 3rd, 2021 at 9:08am:
Staffsling. Why has nobody said that?

Check the first page Cheesy
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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #48 - May 4th, 2021 at 9:37am
 
The other weapon I have the most experience with is the bow.  So that would be near the top of my list.  But for my favorite I might go with bolas, even though I've never used one to date.  Love watching videos of them.  Some experimentation with bolas is definitely something I have to make sure I do this summer.
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Reply #49 - May 4th, 2021 at 11:59am
 
Bow of course would be my second but throwing sticks are awesome. I also have to admit staff slings could be really awesome deer killers so long as it was quartering away.

Especially Albion Slingers take on it which was wickedly powerful. Really the best primitive weapon though is the one most likely to work so I guess that means a holy noodle and enchanted quartz rocks.
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Reply #50 - May 4th, 2021 at 2:12pm
 
I have a bow and an atlatl, and I gotta go with the atlatl. The bow is probably more practical in most cases, but the atlatl is more fun. I guess throwing stuff is more familiar.
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Reply #51 - May 4th, 2021 at 2:42pm
 
joe_meadmaker wrote on May 4th, 2021 at 9:37am:
Some experimentation with bolas is definitely something I have to make sure I do this summer.

I'm going to make a request for an ice bolas now Cheesy Should be doable though perhaps not all that reusable...
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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #52 - May 4th, 2021 at 3:24pm
 
Kick wrote on May 4th, 2021 at 2:42pm:
joe_meadmaker wrote on May 4th, 2021 at 9:37am:
Some experimentation with bolas is definitely something I have to make sure I do this summer.

I'm going to make a request for an ice bolas now Cheesy Should be doable though perhaps not all that reusable...

Shocked  YES!!!

Great idea!  That could be a fun contest too.  A point for each ice ball you break when the bolas wrap around the target.

But yeah.  Pretty much a one throw weapon most likely.
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Reply #53 - May 4th, 2021 at 4:06pm
 
Curious Aardvark wrote on May 14th, 2020 at 2:55pm:
well as gut isn't very suitable for making slingshots - although I have seen one made with torsion bars and gut instead of rubber - and rubber bands are a fairly new invention. I'd have to say that slingshots are not primitive weapons.

You can have a stone bow Smiley
Those are fairly old.
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Running the grave risk of boring everyone with a history lesson, CA is correct.  Slingshots rely on Vulcanized rubber, which was invented in 1839.  Rubber bands were invented in 1845.  Hodges catapult gun was designed in 1849.  The first commercially produced slingshot (the Zip-Zip) was offered in 1918.  The first mass marketed wrist rocket was 1953 (Saunders Archery - which continues to offer some modern takes on this vintage design).

The slingshot was invented centuries after gunpowder and centuries after airguns were invented.  To put his in perspective, the steam engine was invented in 1698, the oldest known photograph is from 1826 or 1827, the telegraph was developed in the 1830’s, and the fax machine (which relies on telegraph technology and not telephone technology) was invented in 1843.

Slingshots are human powered, a common trait with the primitive weapons discussed here.
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Reply #54 - May 5th, 2021 at 3:41pm
 
Slingshots aren’t primitive? Oh, you’ll see. Soon enough.
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Reply #55 - May 5th, 2021 at 9:20pm
 
Slyngorm wrote on May 5th, 2021 at 3:41pm:
Slingshots aren’t primitive? Oh, you’ll see. Soon enough.

My curiosity is piqued.
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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #56 - May 6th, 2021 at 7:52am
 
joe_meadmaker wrote on May 5th, 2021 at 9:20pm:
Slyngorm wrote on May 5th, 2021 at 3:41pm:
Slingshots aren’t primitive? Oh, you’ll see. Soon enough.

My curiosity is piqued.


Likewise. Slyngorm is one of the most dedicated primitive weapons researchers we have here. If he says it, it definitely makes me wonder.
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Reply #57 - May 6th, 2021 at 11:44am
 
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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #58 - May 6th, 2021 at 8:52pm
 
Love slings, but love bows and throwing sticks more  Huh
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Re: Your favorite primitive weapon after the sling?
Reply #59 - May 7th, 2021 at 7:42am
 
A really nicely shaped club Smiley

And you don't get much more primitive that that.
Well unless you've got a femur bone from a pretty large beast.

I don't have one Sad
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