This would be considered an assault style slingshot in CA. You would need to carve a serial number in it and register it.The "starship" style wrist rocket extends your draw length, then some real damage can happen.
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Vine maple would be a good acquisition. I'll have to grab some next time I'm in the woods looking for the elusive yew.Made sling shots and bows out of Vine Maples all the time as a kid! Yeah we did some stupid things every day.
Thats why it was so much fun!
That's funny, there's a thread going on about legality in CA. Slingshots are legal to own. But... they cannot be capable of shooting metalic shot... wrap your head around that one.This would be considered an assault style slingshot in CA. You would need to carve a serial number in it and register it.
Flat bands are the powerhouse these days. Lots of specialized products and tapers. It's almost getting as specialized and complex(or simple) as fly fishing.Nice project, TicTokCroc!
When my brother and I were kids, we lived beside a heavily-forested coastal B.C. ravine. There were a very few vine maples growing on the slopes, and they yielded a few nice slingshot crotches (or "forks"). Those are very rare trees, at least I've very rarely seen any since.
We just cut the three ends to length, cut the bark off, then cut a groove around the two ends, around which we attached surgical tubing, using thin twine. And just a leather patch to hold the ammo. Other kids used inner tube rubber, but surgical tubing was way, way more powerful. We mostly used marbles for ammo, and also "steelies" (ball bearings) that we found in the mud at the auto wreckers. Thankfully, we never injured or killed anybody, because we never fired at humans. I'm not sure why not, because we sure did a lot of stupid things back then. (like drop rocks on .38 or .44 rounds that we found down the ravine! Did I say that? Didn't happen!)