What's the minimum number of slingshots can you live with?

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Heifereye

Discussion Starter · May 5, 2021

I get super interested in all the hobbies that I ever participate in. I also live an apartment in NYC with my wife and 2 teens. During this time of covid home period, everyone is piled on top of each other. My wife has caught on about my slingshot "obsession". She would like me to reduced my "collection" and especially if I want to get into a new sport, fly fishing. I admit the closets are at capacity and a Marie Kondo intervention may be needed. I ask myself if I need another slingshot and the answer is no. I ask myself if it's funner to have another, well you know the answer.

If you guys have to choose, what will be your criterion? I'm not a collector and have just a few customs. I mostly have stock frames.

Just curious of what you guys think.

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High Desert Flipper

· #2 · May 5, 2021

Going back to my bicycle racing days we had a similar conjecture on the appropriate number of bikes that an enthusiast needed to have. I think the same cold calculus applies to slings. The correct number of bikes, or slings, can be precisely calculated using the formula N+1, with N being the number currently owned. And yes, spouses love the math, be it bikes, slings, or whatever.

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Pebble Shooter

· #3 · May 5, 2021

Well, I suppose in the worst case scenario, one large frame for heavy duty flat bands, and a small frame to shoot BB's. The reality is that I have a few too many slingshots myself, and only tend to use 2 or 3 of them regularly.

That said, I now and then enjoy looking at the different designs I have, whether purchased or homemade. It's a very cost effective hobby. unlike many other alternatives out there. There was a time when I would spend significant money on .357 cal. ammo shot with a S&W 686...don't see the point anymore.

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cromag

· #4 · May 5, 2021

Zero. Life existed before slingshots , life would exist without one.

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Ordo

· #5 · May 5, 2021

-One. It took me like two years to design, refine and finally build my own custom slingshot. That's the only one, the preferred, the favorite.

-You're such a liar...

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SLING-N-SHOT

· #6 · May 5, 2021

If I had to narrow it down to just one......it would be a FUG, no doubt about it, love that frame. [mention]you'llshootyereyeout [/mention]

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David D

· #7 · May 5, 2021

High Desert Flipper said:
Going back to my bicycle racing days we had a similar conjecture on the appropriate number of bikes that an enthusiast needed to have. I think the same cold calculus applies to slings. The correct number of bikes, or slings, can be precisely calculated using the formula N+1, with N being the number currently owned. And yes, spouses love the math, be it bikes, slings, or whatever.

I like the N+1 idea. I don't need any more but I certainly want more on top of what I have which is about 8 so I could do with one more. I have been resisting the urge to get another but I will probably give in sooner or later.

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Island made

· #8 · May 5, 2021

Well I have about a hundred and fifty frames, and I love them all and have most of them hanging on the wall in my man cave. But if I had to I could live with one. A few years ago I would say about 10. One for butterfly, short draw, ttf, Pfs, tube shooter, speed shooter, ring shooter, and so on.......but now I only shoot full butterfly and I know what style frame I like so ya, I could live with one, just DONT ask me which one!!!

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Sandstorm

· #9 · May 5, 2021

SLING-N-SHOT said:
If I had to narrow it down to just one......it would be a FUG, no doubt about it, love that frame. [mention]you'llshootyereyeout [/mention]

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Darrell Allen

What's this FUG you speak of?

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Stankard757

· #10 · May 5, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)

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Sandstorm said:
SLING-N-SHOT said:

If I had to narrow it down to just one......it would be a FUG, no doubt about it, love that frame. [mention]you'llshootyereyeout [/mention]

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Darrell Allen

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What's this FUG you speak of?

The "Fuggetaboutit" from Youllshootyereyeout

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Sandstorm

· #11 · May 5, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)

I could be buying guns (and maybe someday again ammo

) so to answer your question from a financial comparison standpoint: As many as I want

.
Nah I figure I could get away with one, as long as it had wide forks both horizontally and vertically. Or was the Hammer modular system from Simpleshot. Then I could shoot arrows!!! (Some day...Some day...)

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Sandstorm

· #12 · May 5, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)

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Stankard757 said:
Sandstorm said:

SLING-N-SHOT said:

If I had to narrow it down to just one......it would be a FUG, no doubt about it, love that frame. [mention]you'llshootyereyeout [/mention]

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Darrell Allen

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What's this FUG you speak of?

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The "Fuggetaboutit" from Youllshootyereyeout

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Holy

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Ibojoe

· #13 · May 6, 2021 (Edited by Moderator)

What's the maximum number of frames you can't live without? lol
Favorite? The Island Made Halbert.

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Tree Man

· #14 · May 6, 2021

Ibojoe said:
What's the maximum number of frames you can't live without? lol
Favorite? The Island Made Halbert.

dude!?! Whaaat?!?!? Is that?!

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MOJAVE MO

· #15 · May 6, 2021

There is only one real answer. 2 frames. Frame number 1 is either your absolute, without question, your most comfortable all-day slingshot--OR any frame that you can choose to shoot flats, or tubes in TTF or OTT, a universal if you will. Frame number 2 is your concealable small ammo shooter in your favorite configuration. Adding a natural in the mix does not affect your TFA factoring (total frames allowed), because naturals often become gifts or loaners to new shooters. I bought a lot of extra time with my wife on my own sling-journey by telling her that the 'pretty wooden forks' were actually meditative spinal acupressure tools carved out of sustainable exotic hardwoods from East Jersey.

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High Desert Flipper

· #16 · May 6, 2021

All N+1 joking aside, I love many of the answers above. And while I agree life would go on without slingshots I think two is a good minimum. A light and heavy rig, both comfy, would do it for me. And I could get by with one. Cut me down to zero though and I have a lot of isolation hours to fill over the past year and have no idea how I would have done that.

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skarrd

· #17 · May 6, 2021

i could probably live with 3, OPFS,heavy forked frame,and i would have to have a Natty,just because thats where i started as a kid

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MakoPat

· #18 · May 6, 2021

I, too, am an apartment dweller. I live with my wife and 3 teens and 2 small dogs. My wife is very supportive of my hobby/lifestyle... Maybe due the past hobbies were were.more expensive and required more 'stuff'.

However I suspect a NYC apartment is quite different than a small town Tennessee apartment based on the few visits I made to NYC.

I could live with a Scout LT, PFS 60, my customs, a handful of natties from friends, my makery gear which is a scroll saw, a tabletop drill press, a bucket of files and sanding drums. But I work outside in a breezeway.

So the trick is to be very organized and store out of sight. If you do display or store openly try to use space that is dead already.

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MakoPat

· #19 · May 6, 2021

I, too, am an apartment dweller. I live with my wife and 3 teens and 2 small dogs. My wife is very supportive of my hobby/lifestyle... Maybe due the past hobbies were were.more expensive and required more 'stuff'.

However I suspect a NYC apartment is quite different than a small town Tennessee apartment based on the few visits I made to NYC.

I could live with a Scout LT, PFS 60, my customs, a handful of natties from friends, my makery gear which is a scroll saw, a tabletop drill press, a bucket of files and sanding drums. But I work outside in a breezeway.

So the trick is to be very organized and store out of sight. If you do display or store openly try to use space that is dead already.

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vince4242

· #20 · May 6, 2021

3

3 total... The D1, my custom Boy Scout, and the mini shooter. My homemades almost shoot is good as my titanium D1 but are pocketable both. They look different but both of them fit my hand perfectly and they are great little shooters. Anyone who wants the template for either I'll be glad to share. All three have the same anchor point and references to make for easy and accurate shooting.

Cheers

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