[Ibojoe]

I was working in the city yesterday and had lunch on the back patio with the home owners and had my slingshot in my lunch box and showed it off when the Mrs. Excused herself. She soon returned with what appears to be an ash cup with peg heads on top.
I snapped a couple of quick pictures and sent them to our resident flatland expert Flatband Miller he said the rubber was probably inter tube. It was cut perfectly and still stretched.
What was the most impressive to me was that the pouch was completely worn out from rocks and there was NO fork his at all. Pulling against the ties? That's amazing.
Hope you guys enjoy it. She inherited it in the 50's. So this is a really old beautiful frame.

 

[mattwalt]

Thats an amazing artefact - very cool to have got some pics.

 

[Ibojoe]

It kinda shocked me when I first saw it. Most of the old ones I’ve seen tied to pull against the ties, the forks are much wider. Every the ones we carried as kids. He was evidently a pretty good shot taking squirrels with rocks.

 

[Hulla Baloo]

Character piled on character in that piece. Now I have to fashion my own rock chucker.

Never understood the "against the ties" method. Hussey did the same thing. Why? Was it just to lessen the lever effect?

 

[devils son in law]

Its great that she held on to it!!

 

[crypter27]

A beautiful classic U shaped frame!

 

[KawKan]

Wow. That is an amazing find. Thanks for sharing the photos!

 

[31610]

That’s awesome!

 

[MakoPat]

Holy Moley! Someone was a dead eye.

 

[Tag]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Joey Jfive Lujan]

Wow that's a classic!! .. super cool man .. a piece of history ! I enjoy shooting against the ties with old school rubber .. Nico turned me into that !

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[flipgun]

I have a similar one (not as nice) that I got at an estate sale from the early '60's and it is pocket knife all the way.

All I have done to it is to rub it down with beeswax/mineral oil to feed as it is Really dry..

 

[Ibojoe]

It was a real treat to hold a piece of history like that. Sure wish I would have hung on to mine that my Dad made me in ‘63.

 

[gunslingster]

No fork hits, must have been owned by a fine shooter!