• Win an RIX Storm S3 Thermal Imaging Scope!

    To enter, all you need to do is add an image of yourself at the range below! Subscribers get more entries, check out the plans below for a better chance of winning!

    Join the contest Subscribe

Something fun

Trigger Monkey

Ronin
Full Member
Minuteman
  • Apr 29, 2005
    4,513
    5,617
    Winchester Virginia
    I didn't know where this would fit in so I felt like the Armory was as good a place as any. Rewind to the summer and I get it in my head to make a sling shot and although I've never made a sling shot, how complicated could it be? Turns out I didn't know what I didn't know and neither bungee cords or bicycle inner tube make for a good sling shot. I found some forums for sling shots and read that exercise bands are a decent alternative for making slingshots so I picked one up, cut it up, and made this contraption. I know I could've bought a sling shot band or hell a whole slingshot for what I paid for the exercise band but I wanted to make one from scratch, it was fun.

    IMG_2486.jpg


    It'll send one of those glass balls through a cardboard box and dent the other side at about 10' or so, which I'm happy with.
     
    I didn't know where this would fit in so I felt like the Armory was as good a place as any. Rewind to the summer and I get it in my head to make a sling shot and although I've never made a sling shot, how complicated could it be? Turns out I didn't know what I didn't know and neither bungee cords or bicycle inner tube make for a good sling shot. I found some forums for sling shots and read that exercise bands are a decent alternative for making slingshots so I picked one up, cut it up, and made this contraption. I know I could've bought a sling shot band or hell a whole slingshot for what I paid for the exercise band but I wanted to make one from scratch, it was fun.

    View attachment 8583652

    It'll send one of those glass balls through a cardboard box and dent the other side at about 10' or so, which I'm happy with.

    Harry Reid does not approve (if you believe his "story").
    1736093243756.png
     
    • Haha
    Reactions: MO Fugga
    I grew up with home made slingshots. I still have the Y from my grandfather’s. He could keep a pop can on a string dancing. .
    I keep the ball bearings from work. Oldest is 8 .