Catapult
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Freeforester
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Catapult carnage are lovely and effective for hunting or plinking:
See also Gamekeeper John’s videos and Tim Oran who makes good ones also.
Bill Hayes in USA makes great slingshots also.
Got several from all the above.
Great fun!
See also Gamekeeper John’s videos and Tim Oran who makes good ones also.
Bill Hayes in USA makes great slingshots also.
Got several from all the above.
Great fun!
Danhfromwales
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I have a wasp uniphoxx and a catty shack Evo pro field v2, both fork fit on left fork, I shoot OTT and hold 90 degrees tilted (i.e. gangster). I haven't used either in a while but might pick it back up.
I've only ever practiced at targets and the intention was to practice until fairly confident I could dispatch a pigeon or grey instantly with one shot.
Their pocketability and quietness is what drew me, take the dog for a walk and no ones around and in a safe area, have a quick practice / dispatch quarry.
Their reputation is getting tarnished due to bad actors and I wont be surprised if they get restricted especially being caught carrying one.
I've only ever practiced at targets and the intention was to practice until fairly confident I could dispatch a pigeon or grey instantly with one shot.
Their pocketability and quietness is what drew me, take the dog for a walk and no ones around and in a safe area, have a quick practice / dispatch quarry.
Their reputation is getting tarnished due to bad actors and I wont be surprised if they get restricted especially being caught carrying one.
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Rake Aboot
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Young lads round my way are amazing with them and quite happily fill a bag
Morkai
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Christ. My first experience of a commercially made catapult.
A friend of mine had one of those along with a Barnett Cobra and Nitro .177.
These things basically got me into shooting as a child.
Starting a few months ago. Its quite addictive. Only plinking at tins and not quarry yet. Like @Danhfromwales said, I like the stealth aspect. I have happened upon some dubious forums and there are shed loads of poachers out there!
Rake Aboot
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You should list the forums here, so that I can avoid them,,,,,ahem! 
Exactly this, My father hated shooting so I had to draw the line with a Blackwidow, We had loads of open land to practice on, great memories.
billy_boyle_2010
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Even the best shots cause a shed load of woundings and injuries- often doing it illegally- poaching or killing for the sake of it.
Rake Aboot
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Oh here we go.
Using 8mm lead balls, they are quite effective but no adult should use one for hunting.
I remember my mother buying a new kitchen when I was a boy, that she saved up long and hard for - we were as poor as mites. As soon as she put that anthracite burning stove in, I thought of how it can be used to smelt metal. A week later she went out for an hour, and I had a two part plaster of paris mould waiting with two pounds of aluminium to make an even stronger catapult. Alas, in the rush to get it done before she got back, I did not bake the plaster of paris to drive out the remaining moisture, so no sooner than I had poured this monster load of aluminium into it, it exploded, putting molten ali all over the new vinyl floor (in vogue then), and embedding it into the new kitchen units.
That memory is more painful than the welts on my fingers and wrist from when balls shot in a hurry hit the yoke on the catapult.
Putting that aside, catapults are poor for hunting and I would not use one as an adult for that as it is unethical. Even lead balls cause more injuries more than they kill, as whatever the Youtube can mislead you to thinking is possible, catapults are not consistently accurate and do not have enough power: an air rifle does better, or far better still a .17HMR. If killing animals to remove pests or to eat, do it humanely.
I remember my mother buying a new kitchen when I was a boy, that she saved up long and hard for - we were as poor as mites. As soon as she put that anthracite burning stove in, I thought of how it can be used to smelt metal. A week later she went out for an hour, and I had a two part plaster of paris mould waiting with two pounds of aluminium to make an even stronger catapult. Alas, in the rush to get it done before she got back, I did not bake the plaster of paris to drive out the remaining moisture, so no sooner than I had poured this monster load of aluminium into it, it exploded, putting molten ali all over the new vinyl floor (in vogue then), and embedding it into the new kitchen units.
That memory is more painful than the welts on my fingers and wrist from when balls shot in a hurry hit the yoke on the catapult.
Putting that aside, catapults are poor for hunting and I would not use one as an adult for that as it is unethical. Even lead balls cause more injuries more than they kill, as whatever the Youtube can mislead you to thinking is possible, catapults are not consistently accurate and do not have enough power: an air rifle does better, or far better still a .17HMR. If killing animals to remove pests or to eat, do it humanely.
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