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is slings powerful enough for small gam hunting?
Jun 24th, 2010 at 1:54am
 


I get used to small game hunting with slingshots.

The slinging is more simple and attractive.

I just wonder is slings powerful enough for small game hunting?
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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #1 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 2:07am
 
Slingshots are a lot of fun but comparing the power of an average slingshot to that of a sling would be like comparing the power of a 45 mag vs a cannon. Slings are very deadly in capable hands. Easily capable of launching rocks the size of a large egg 200-400 yards. Getting hit in the head by a decent slinger and fair size rock would mean almost certain death to a human, let alone small game. Something to keep in mind as you go out to practice.  Wink
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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #2 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 4:39am
 
Funny how slings and slingshots are often lumped together. In fact they are completely different weapons with only the superficial similarity of a pouch which propels the projectile. A slingshot is an energy storage devive much more like a bow in use.

I'm an absolutely dedicated slinger; a weapon with millenia of history, and a real challenge. But I do also enjoy slingshots. They can be real fun and are much easier to achieve accuracy with, but the power is much less, still fine for small game like rabbits etc.
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Reply #3 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 5:08am
 
Powerful enough, yes, accurate enough, for the large majority of people that can sling at all, no way. That´s the reason I consider a sling an unacceptable weapon for hunting. Making a clean kill depends too much on a lucky shot, therefor the chances are imo too high you just wound/hurt the animal.
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Reply #4 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 7:18am
 
Even if one meets an animal up to a size of a small roe deer, not cleanly in the doing in, only the shock effect is deadly in 90% of the cases. The hunting on animals is a real challenge for a Slinger. But she is absolutely unnecessary, because our life of it does not take down an animal to kill.
A good 10 years ago I might accompany in Kazakhstan two old experienced hunters with on a traditional Bogenjagt. I had to demonstrate to opportunity my Sling. Though the Kasachen know the Sling, but for them a Sling is rather toys.
(Although I never saw a child with a Sling) after 3 shot hares, foxes and a small roe deer, they changed her opinion about this weapon basically. They called me from then on also hunter.
Today I shoot only at rats. These are a real challenge for a Slinger.
Otherwise I very often train in the wood. There I have tangled a small Parcour. From soft toys and folding discs from metal. Also Balearic Diane is suited very well to practice. I shoot at this aim from a distance from up to 60 m. And this is quite rather wide.
Does to me a favour. If this kills no animals if to her not have to go. Kill from pure sport I hold for extremely perverted.

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Reply #5 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 7:37am
 
You shot a deer with a sling ?
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Reply #6 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 7:37am
 
Are slings powerful enough?  Huh You're kidding, right?

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Reply #7 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 7:56am
 
Hi Tharos,

I shot a roe deer. I met it in the neck. The animal much simply around and was dead immediately. The distance amounted about to 30 m.

Hi Tint,

I joke only seldom if it to myself around slingen acts.
I have smashed with a Sling already 12 lagige Shilds.
What you believe why Slings in Palestina are used. To knock?? They want to kill with it and hard injure. They also manage this over and over again.

Spaniards reported them with the conquest of the new world on natives bumped who were to be killed in the situation a horse with only one hit in the head.

A Sling is really no toys. I experienced some situations which I do not remember with pleasure.
Often I read here article where I in comes being astonished. About technologies et cetera.
The Sling is definitively a dangerous weapon. And thus one should also handle with her.
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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #8 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 8:24am
 
Yes. Slings have 5x more power than you need for small game but the rest depends on you               ( accuracy, shot placement and stalking skills are all vital) . However for hunting rabbits I would take a throwing stick over a sling anyday.
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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #9 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 10:45am
 
Hi, crazysling;
    Welcome to slinging.org!  It's great to have you aboard.  Slings are more than powerful enough for small game.  Any weapon that can fire a stone the size of an large egg 200+ yards can certainly kill small game.  The challenge is in achieving the accuracy necessary.  To me and many others trophy hunting isn't hunting at all.. it's just killing.  Eat what you kill, please.  Good luck!
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Reply #10 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 11:01am
 
Hi, thank you all for kind replies.

I think I am stepping into the wonderful slings world.

We also have a slingshot forum where many slignshots shooters discuss there

www.slingshotforum.com

just share ideas , no intention to Spam since I am neither the owner of that forum , nor the moderator.

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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #11 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 11:14am
 
crazysling wrote on Jun 24th, 2010 at 11:01am:
Hi, thank you all for kind replies.

I think I am stepping into the wonderful slings world.

We also have a slingshot forum where many slignshots shooters discuss there

www.slingshotforum.com

just share ideas , no intention to Spam since I am neither the owner of that forum , nor the moderator.



hehe, nope as long as you show interest in slinging, no matter how remote, we're generally fine. however, we did have a spammer who was really crazy about slingshots, and kept on spamming our emails.
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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #12 - Jun 24th, 2010 at 12:21pm
 
The big issue here is accuracy. It will take a while to get good enough for small game, heck it will take a while to get good enough for large game. But the power is there, once you get a decent form.
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Reply #13 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 2:01pm
 
People have been feeding themselves with slings for a very long time.
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Re: is slings powerful enough for small gam huntin
Reply #14 - Jul 1st, 2010 at 5:45pm
 
People have been surviving and thriving in most brutal environments on Earth imaginable, but none says it's easy, or that they all make it! Tongue
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