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Since starting again with slingshots last September, after a gap of 63 years, photo # 1 shows how much I have learned, mainly on this Forum, and from my own experiments.
My first slingshot, the "Victorian 2018", on the left, is grossly under-gapped (29 mm) and over-rubbered and is shelved.
My new "Wings" slingshot, on the right, has more space, a 65 mm fork gap and what looks like little rubber, but it is double, Precise 3rd Generation, 0.75 mm flatband, tapering from 11 mm to 8 mm. Short draw style, 5.5" effective rubber length, giving me 4x stretch to my back-teeth anchor point.
Whilst I am happily shooting 8 mm steel ball (and clay ball of same weight) at paper targets with a variety of smaller slingshots, I designed "Wings" for playing with larger ammo, as shown in photo # 2: 4, 5, and 8 gramme clay balls and 10.6 gramme, 26 mm ice balls, as well as beach pebbles, etc.
Photo # 3 shows the rear side of the sling and photo #4 shows the leather cushion tabs on both sides of the rubber.
For both fork and pouch bindings, I used a Constrictor Knot first, followed by Double Overhand Knots and one Double Reef Knot. The Constrictor Knot is brilliant, it allowed me to half-tighten it and then juggle the rubber and leather into perfect position with tweezers, finally pulling it very tight.
I am a beginner with accuracy, but the first few shots with 4-gramme clay balls went well and I progressed to 5-gramme, 8-gramme clay balls and 10.6-gramme ice balls, and the sling hardly seemed to notice the difference.
[I have ordered a Chronograph on Special Offer from Dankung, my current one is not good and I hope to learn more about velocity with various ammo.]
The finish is 3 coats of Rustins Danish Oil, used exactly as instructed on the tin.
For anyone who is interested, these are the other dimensions of "Wings" in mm:
Height 164
Width 93
Fork gap 65
Throat depth 54
Pinch grip width 55
Pouch 80 x 20
I am really looking forward to getting outside with "Wings" when the weather improves.
Mike
My first slingshot, the "Victorian 2018", on the left, is grossly under-gapped (29 mm) and over-rubbered and is shelved.
My new "Wings" slingshot, on the right, has more space, a 65 mm fork gap and what looks like little rubber, but it is double, Precise 3rd Generation, 0.75 mm flatband, tapering from 11 mm to 8 mm. Short draw style, 5.5" effective rubber length, giving me 4x stretch to my back-teeth anchor point.
Whilst I am happily shooting 8 mm steel ball (and clay ball of same weight) at paper targets with a variety of smaller slingshots, I designed "Wings" for playing with larger ammo, as shown in photo # 2: 4, 5, and 8 gramme clay balls and 10.6 gramme, 26 mm ice balls, as well as beach pebbles, etc.
Photo # 3 shows the rear side of the sling and photo #4 shows the leather cushion tabs on both sides of the rubber.
For both fork and pouch bindings, I used a Constrictor Knot first, followed by Double Overhand Knots and one Double Reef Knot. The Constrictor Knot is brilliant, it allowed me to half-tighten it and then juggle the rubber and leather into perfect position with tweezers, finally pulling it very tight.
I am a beginner with accuracy, but the first few shots with 4-gramme clay balls went well and I progressed to 5-gramme, 8-gramme clay balls and 10.6-gramme ice balls, and the sling hardly seemed to notice the difference.
[I have ordered a Chronograph on Special Offer from Dankung, my current one is not good and I hope to learn more about velocity with various ammo.]
The finish is 3 coats of Rustins Danish Oil, used exactly as instructed on the tin.
For anyone who is interested, these are the other dimensions of "Wings" in mm:
Height 164
Width 93
Fork gap 65
Throat depth 54
Pinch grip width 55
Pouch 80 x 20
I am really looking forward to getting outside with "Wings" when the weather improves.
Mike
