[whipcrackdeadbunny]

I've noticed it's not the catapult, homemade wooden ones can kill just like the professional metal ones, it's all in knowing your bands to ammo ratio and knowing your equipment well. I suggest you just have fun at first, playing around with what you can get hold of and don't try killing until you have a good target hit percentage ... say 6/7 out of 10 at about 20-30 ft, this should be good enough to get good shots off under pressure, after some practice, you should be able to tell a strong hit from a soft one.

 

[whipcrackdeadbunny]

Hi folks, love the hunting; some info I've learnt studying bush-craft (like Ray Mears) carrion eating animals should be avoided as food (crows, gulls, foxes) but rats are actually edible, as though they seem to eat almost anything, I believe they are only wearing down their teeth, which grow at an extra-ordinary rate. The trouble with eating rats is, they can have things like rabies and TB. I'd be happy to be corrected though, if anyone knows otherwise.
On a personal note, hunting is one of those things; brutal, yet beautiful. A perfect skull shot, kills the animal instantly (a wild animal mind you, living as it should) and you get to live another day, wheras a body shot, may maim and the animal escapes, or has to be put down after a short amount of suffering; but this is the nature of nature, I feel. Does this mean we should not hunt and kill, beacuse we might cause a painful death? do you think the rabbit, thinks about the grass and it's seeds?
And if not for man killing man, what would keep us in check?