[robirt55]

He guys,

I am sure some of you know by now that I am really new to slingshots. I am planning on taking my slingshot to my girlfriends house to a family gathering to get brownie some points and let her cousins play with it(highly supervised of course(they are kind of young)).

The house is out in the woods and I am not sure if we can build a place to shoot and catch steel rounds. This would mean that steel rounds would be lost forever also that we would only have less that 120 shots. So I did some thinking and came up with the idea of trying peanut M&M's. I say trying because I am writing this late at night and can't give it a shot now.... I will tomorrow morning. The M&Ms will have to be frozen for this to work best I would think.

Does anyone know of any other cheep food product that can be bought in bulk and used as organic slingshot ammo??

Robirt55

 

[robirt55]

should have posted this into general Discussion...

 

[JLS:Survival]

skittles work great, and rocks, the more round the better, bio-degradable air soft rounds

 

[newconvert]

He guys,

I am sure some of you know by now that I am really new to slingshots. I am planning on taking my slingshot to my girlfriends house to a family gathering to get brownie some points and let her cousins play with it(highly supervised of course(they are kind of young)).

The house is out in the woods and I am not sure if we can build a place to shoot and catch steel rounds. This would mean that steel rounds would be lost forever also that we would only have less that 120 shots. So I did some thinking and came up with the idea of trying peanut M&M's. I say trying because I am writing this late at night and can't give it a shot now.... I will tomorrow morning. The M&Ms will have to be frozen for this to work best I would think.

Does anyone know of any other cheep food product that can be bought in bulk and used as organic slingshot ammo??

Robirt55

i will both move it for you and suggest dried peas, seeds, be environmentally friendly. have fun, band it light for the younguns!

 

[lightgeoduck]

Gumballs!

check out member Dgui's vid

lgd

 

[newconvert]

looks like Dgui's going bareback in that vid

 

[lightgeoduck]

looks like Dgui's going bareback in that vid

yes, but he has used gumballs with shooters as well.. there are more vids, but that was the first one I saw

 

[newconvert]

i've made alot of his shooter types, i havent done bareback yet? maybe tomorrow?

 

[LBurnett]

How about mint imperials? perfect size and shape and plenty hard enough! also if you get hungry..

 

[treefork]

lemom heads, gum balls, river rock, iron taconite pellets, clay balls........

 

[Bostradamus]

i use sixlets from time to time.. they are a little soft, so i freeze them and they work great!! welcome to the obsession, from now on everything you see will be a slingshot or ammo

 

[Bostradamus]

also, if you have limited ammo, try building a catch box, similar to this one

catch

• Bostradamus
• May 25, 2012
• 3

my 15 minute fix to losing all my ammo!!

it took about $15 dollars and 15 minute to build

 

[melvin]

I've heard that dried garbanzo beans work well.
Melvin

 

[Charles]

Hard, round candy ... buy in bulk. It is cheap and biodegradable. And it has enough mass to give you a reasonable range without going wonky in the air. But rocks are very cheap and pretty easy to come by.

Hang a sheet or blanket over a clothes line or rope between a couple of trees as a backstop.

Cheers ..... Charles

 

[robirt55]

I wanted to avoid building a catch and therefore was wondering about biodegratable ammo, I have a pretty intence catch setup in my basement ill get somepics up when i get home.