[Tombo]

Hey guys! First time poster, but have used this forum to research a variety of things. I'll save my story for the introduction forum, but wanted to share this guy. I have a bunch of wood for handle material, as I am a payed hobbyist knife maker - I had a nice chunk of Bubinga wood left over from a recent handle/Saya combo, so I carved it out with a portaband table, and my 2x72, and filed in tie ins. Tied in with simple shot black, what I have labeled "1/4" +p", which is 10mm x 13mm X 8" .4 thickness. Bought this cute little carry pouch, and can't be happier with how it turns out. It's shooting high for me for some reason, but I have noticed that trend with a few OTT slingshots I have, so I'm not surprised no persay. I even re-tied to try to recenter the pouch, but it really wasn't all that off center to begin with and so my adjustment yielded no change.

This is the first I've made, so wondering if it could have been something about my build? I'm thinking it could be in my bands, so I might just swap them with a known set of bands from a different shooter, any other suggestions, critiques, etc appreciated!

 

[dogcatchersito]

Hey guys! First time poster, but have used this forum to research a variety of things. I'll save my story for the introduction forum, but wanted to share this guy. I have a bunch of wood for handle material, as I am a payed hobbyist knife maker - I had a nice chunk of Bubinga wood left over from a recent handle/Saya combo, so I carved it out with a portaband table, and my 2x72, and filed in tie ins. Tied in with simple shot black, what I have labeled "1/4" +p", which is 10mm x 13mm X 8" .4 thickness. Bought this cute little carry pouch, and can't be happier with how it turns out. It's shooting high for me for some reason, but I have noticed that trend with a few OTT slingshots I have, so I'm not surprised no persay. I even re-tied to try to recenter the pouch, but it really wasn't all that off center to begin with and so my adjustment yielded no change.

This is the first I've made, so wondering if it could have been something about my build? I'm thinking it could be in my bands, so I might just swap them with a known set of bands from a different shooter, any other suggestions, critiques, etc appreciated!

I think it may be your reference point. I don't think anything is wrong with your design, it looks fine. Are you using the corner of your top fork (that's assuming you're holding it 90 degrees out gangsta). If you are I would push the reference point out a few mm to the right of that corner, left if your RHH.

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[Tombo]

Thanks for your response. Yes, holding top corner, but my left/right is totally fine, it's shooting high, meaning I have to hold low (move my reference lower than my intended target), does that make sense? If I moved my reference point to the right from perfectly in line with my bands (like it is now), that would move my shot to the left, not what I need, right?. As it is, from about 20 feet, instead of holding just under the bull, I hold it about 2-3 inches below the bull to hit it. But yeah, left right is totally solid

 

[SJAaz]

Raise your anchor point.

 

[Tombo]

Raise your anchor point.

Thanks for your reply! I thought the same thing, and some search research here and the other slingshot forum has a lot of this same advise. Unfortunately, I'm bumping into my cheek bone, and I'm right under my eye - so I can't raise it any further - though that is sage advice, thanks.

These replies are making me think the sling is sound, and that it must be my bands. To reiterate, I have 3 other slingshot, and have been shooting them both TTF and OTT - and they hit right where they "should" - meaning just above the center of the bands in TTf, and right above the edge of the bands in OTT, and I am successfully shooting those consistently.

I'll probably take the same bands that are shooting and hitting properly on my scout lt and move them to the bubinga blaster. I think I just named my new rig!

 

[dogcatchersito]

Thanks for your response. Yes, holding top corner, but my left/right is totally fine, it's shooting high, meaning I have to hold low (move my reference lower than my intended target), does that make sense? If I moved my reference point to the right from perfectly in line with my bands (like it is now), that would move my shot to the left, not what I need, right?. As it is, from about 20 feet, instead of holding just under the bull, I hold it about 2-3 inches below the bull to hit it. But yeah, left right is totally solid

Sorry I meant move your reference point down. Got it in my head you said it was flying in a different direction. It also could be your physical anchor point is too lie in relation to where you are holding the catty. I would practice your anchor in front of a mirror or video record it. To see if your bands are making a fairly straight line. Minor tweaks is all it needs that's the beauty of home-made cattys we have to discover their quirks.

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[Tree Man]

I promise you, theres nothing wrong with that frame. Its a beauty. Great work my friend. Usually when I run into accuracy problems( most days) I can trace it directly back to my release. Seems like that's the root of most of my shooting issues. Keep at it buddy.

 

[Tombo]

I promise you, theres nothing wrong with that frame. Its a beauty. Great work my friend. Usually when I run into accuracy problems( most days) I can trace it directly back to my release. Seems like that's the root of most of my shooting issues. Keep at it buddy.

Thank you tree, as well as to everyone else who has offered compliments, advice, etc. I definitely feel the love, and happy even more pumped to be getting into slingshots!

maybe this is not the right spot for this, I know there's a whole section on templates, but I'm interested in making another frame to shoot. I'm sort of more interested in the actual shooting and the new ergos of a different slingshot. I'm looking for a suggestions from all you guys that have a lot more experience with slingshots than I do, can you recommend templates either available here, or ones that are available elsewhere that you would recommend I use to make another style of slingshot then what I already have? obviously, this one is styled after the scout LT, I also have a scout XT, torque, axiom ocularis, and my wrist rocket, now with flap bands. I see a lot of talk about the SPS, but I've also seen threads about how the SPS isn't everything it's cracked up to be, but I'm a little intrigued by that frame. I also think on the other hand that my next homemade slingshot should be a TTF style, so that I can have experience making both.

Again, thanks to all you guys, what a great community. I look forward to your suggestions!