Now that site, and every other says “Cannot ship slingshots to New York” so Ebay is good for something after all!

The basic folding models come with hollow-handles, to hold quite a bit of ammo, for which I prefer No. 00 or 000 (bigger) pure lead ammo from McMaster.com.

Once upon a time, all the laboratory students on my floor of the science building kept coming in later and later, and staying in lab past 3AM. This was because the utility guys replaced an arc lamp sidewalk light but tilted it wrong, to point straight at us all night. Normal channels didn’t work. There were no official means of getting a light re-pointed. My wrist rocket solved the problem. First the light enclosure broke and evidently the bulb developed a small crack too, then, over five minutes it got brighter and brighter…and brighter and brighter more, then glowed orange for another five minutes until it died. Then maintenance kicked in, and re-pointed the light. I wonder what their theory about what happened was? A pigeon? Meteorite? I used hex nuts as ammo, so they must have been scattered around, too, it having taken about twenty hits to finally kill the beast.

Popular Science 1946 – How a North Carolina Sportsman Makes and Shoots His Slingshots. ONE OF boyhood’s traditional toys has come of age. Jim Gasque, North Carolina sportsman, has proved that the ordinary slingshot, when properly made and used,……