Re: [RBW] Re: Slingshots!

2012-01-16 Thread PATRICK MOORE
I love home made weapons -- they are crude enough not to pose any real danger unless the user is insane or a monster. In high school I made a few slings (the David versus Goliath type) that would hurl an unripe avocado over 200 yards (I think the world record, but with something denser than avocad

[RBW] Re: Slingshots!

2012-01-16 Thread Rob
Here in Seattle, we've been using a slingshot lately, armed with chick peas, to scare the raccoons away from our chicken coop. One solid connection seems to have gotten the message across. They haven't been back. Seems to work for discouraging feral cats from using the garden as a litter box to

[RBW] Re: Slingshots!

2012-01-07 Thread Montclair BobbyB
Wrist-Rocket, baby!!! THOSE were precision slingshots, and which technically they were illegal in NJ (back in the 70s, don't know about now), we had a way of... "aquiring" them... They were awesome. On Jan 7, 9:25 pm, Leslie wrote: > On Saturday, January 7, 2012 6:34:01 PM UTC-5, Patrick Moor