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Here's a couple of homemade jobbies that use solid rubber bands. The smaller one uses 4mm rubber and the bigger one uses 5mm.
I bought some solid 4mm a couple of years ago from Aliexpress and tried double looped but it didn't work so well for one reason or another, then I discovered the easy way was to just make one big loop and it works really well. Very easy to quickly change bands so I can always have a couple of spares along and I find the solid rubber holds up very well, much longer than my flats or tubes.
They seem to be more suited for slightly heavier ammo than what I use with my flats. For flat bands I generally like 8-9.5 but these solid bands seem happy with 10-12mm.
I actually tried using the bigger one with the pinky ring as a slingbow using a long band and it sort of worked OK but I couldn't get more than about 15 pounds pull out of it. Could be used in a pinch for fishing maybe. But I've got bows for flinging arrows so it's more use as a slingshot.
I bought some solid 4mm a couple of years ago from Aliexpress and tried double looped but it didn't work so well for one reason or another, then I discovered the easy way was to just make one big loop and it works really well. Very easy to quickly change bands so I can always have a couple of spares along and I find the solid rubber holds up very well, much longer than my flats or tubes.
They seem to be more suited for slightly heavier ammo than what I use with my flats. For flat bands I generally like 8-9.5 but these solid bands seem happy with 10-12mm.
I actually tried using the bigger one with the pinky ring as a slingbow using a long band and it sort of worked OK but I couldn't get more than about 15 pounds pull out of it. Could be used in a pinch for fishing maybe. But I've got bows for flinging arrows so it's more use as a slingshot.
