Hunting Small Game With A Slingshot?

[sawbill]

Do whatever you feel is right but I bet you wound far more animals than you actually kill quickly and humanely. But then again I don't expect any "Dennis the Menace" wannabes to actually admit that.

Where do wingshooters fit in with this thought process when it comes to cripples? My money is on the slingshot .

[Fox]

Actually no. First I don't kill songbirds and secondly find 3" works perfectly on ducks and turkey although I fail to see how this "spin" comes anywhere near to wounding grouse with a very inaccurate tool. Do you still put cats in the microwave? Stupid comment eh? Hmmmmm....

Barn sparrows are considered along the same lines as crows and starlings in Ontario, just an FYI.

So 2 3/4" is no good for ducks, gotcha.

[Snowwalker]

That's an interesting tool. David even beat off Goliath with one. Definitely could have used you when we had to fight off rats back on the turkey farm.

You know that David did NOT in fact kill Goliath with a sling right?

[Snowwalker]

Yes, a nice little story for children. Don't see many Goliaths around much I guess slingshots wiped them out. In real life how many people will bust wings, ribs and cause internal damage to grouse with poor body hits on grouse as was the original question in this post. I see that as intentionally or at least knowingly torturing game and this is what gives hunting a bad name.
I have no doubt you can stone grouse dead right there with head shot from a sling shot. My point is I doubt many people can shoot that accurately.

Well all the rabbits I shot in the chest area with a slingshot as a kid had a good hole in them from the ballbearing. I can't see a chicken being able to withstand a ballbearing that can PUNCH holes in jackrabbits.

Looks to me that either you failed grade 10 physics, or you did not think it thru. Maybe run it thru a ballistic calculator. You would be surprised.

By the way a 1/2" steel ballbearing has about 8.4 grams or 129.6 grains of weight. Lead is much heavier and is the best....just like birdshot........go figure

[werner.reiche]

You know that David did NOT in fact kill Goliath with a sling right?

Well, given the only reference for the story says he did, I'd go with that.

1 Samuel 17
New International Version (NIV)

48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.

[MikePal]

Slingshots can be and are very accurate in the hands of a skilled shooter. Slingshots are recognized more as a legitimate sport in Europe, as is hunting with pellet guns. Lots of video on Youtube showing guys with remarkable aim and accuracy.

My cousins and I killed a whack of varmints with them during the summer on the farm. We used to create quit a pile of dead rats and squirrels. We also killed a pile of bull frogs in the pond with the slingshot and then have Aunty do up the legs for dinner.

That guy in the video makes it look very natural and he's not missing very often...there is a commentor on youtube that says :

the nice thing about shooting for the head, if you miss your target, its hitting either the neck(also an insta kill) or its a miss. if your a real hunter and need a head shot to kill with the weapon your using you will wait until you have such a shot.

Sums it up nicely..the same principle we used when we got enough money to buy a pellet gun and then the .22.

Thanks for the posting the thread Max-4....bought back a lot of good memories for me. I hope you pursue the sport.

[Snowwalker]

Well, given the only reference for the story says he did, I'd go with that.

1 Samuel 17
New International Version (NIV)

48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.

The wording of the translation says that after he killed him he cut off his head. The original Hebrew and Greek do not say that. It is written in the old texts so as to mean that the stone crippled goliath so as to lay on the ground at David's mercy. Goliath died when David cut of him head with his own sword. It is a important point that is being made by saying that Goliath was killed by his OWN sword. Not only was he defeated by a "Boy" but that the "boy" David killed Goliath with his own sword. For if a mere child of the people of God could do that to their greatest warrior, what hope did they have against God's chosen people.

[jlmorgan]

I don't think the slingshot being discussed here is anything like the sling shot that David used! The original slingshot was a length of cloth a couple of inches wide and maybe four feet long, the ends were gripped together in hand of throwing arm and a rock was placed in the pouch, this was then swung around several times to get momentum and released with a snap, modern slingshots are powered by surgical tubing mounted on a Y with a leather pouch to hold the projectile (or the homemade ones we had made from the crotch of a hazelnut bush and strips cut from an inner tube and pouch made from the tongue of an old boot or shoe.

[werner.reiche]

The wording of the translation says that after he killed him he cut off his head. The original Hebrew and Greek do not say that. It is written in the old texts so as to mean that the stone crippled goliath so as to lay on the ground at David's mercy. Goliath died when David cut of him head with his own sword. It is a important point that is being made by saying that Goliath was killed by his OWN sword. Not only was he defeated by a "Boy" but that the "boy" David killed Goliath with his own sword. For if a mere child of the people of God could do that to their greatest warrior, what hope did they have against God's chosen people.

Hebrew version

וַתִּטְבַּע הָאֶבֶן בְּמִצְחוֹ, וַיִּפֹּל עַל-פָּנָיו אָרְצָה. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
נ וַיֶּחֱזַק דָּוִד מִן-הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי בַּקֶּלַע וּבָאֶבֶן, וַיַּךְ אֶת-הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי וַיְמִתֵהוּ; וְחֶרֶב, אֵין בְּיַד-דָּוִד. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
נא וַיָּרָץ דָּוִד וַיַּעֲמֹד אֶל-הַפְּלִשְׁתִּי וַיִּקַּח אֶת-חַרְבּוֹ וַיִּשְׁלְפָהּ מִתַּעְרָהּ, וַיְמֹתְתֵהוּ, וַיִּכְרָת-בָּהּ, אֶת-רֹאשׁוֹ; וַיִּרְאוּ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּים כִּי-מֵת גִּבּוֹרָם, וַיָּנֻסוּ. 51 And David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their mighty man was dead, they fled.

[udderbrudder]

Do whatever you feel is right but I bet you wound far more animals than you actually kill quickly and humanely. But then again I don't expect any "Dennis the Menace" wannabes to actually admit that.

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