Maybe I just wasted $50

[GasGuzzler]

Maybe that was a mid-western thing.

No, he just can't write what people used to call them all over the south and apparently the Midwest. I am guessing that a hundred years ago a certain kind of bias prevented the "waste" of ammunition on certain targets. It lived on as a colloquialism until people mostly stopped using the word ... except for rap "artists". There's shooters and chasers, a certain type of firework.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

Was just cleaning up the basement, and came across my two old "wrist rockets" (one folding, other one not). It's been several years since I used either one, so the surgical tubing was shot. I remember (when I was young & foolish ;^) wrapping wire around bundles of stick matches, so they would land on the heads when launched & light up if they struck a hard object (like an asphalt parking lot)!

Need to find replacement tubing, because those things always struck me as a great 'emergency' tool to have around...

A company called CopperHead sells both replacement bands and whole band/seat assemblies. Another thing say sell- believe it or not- is ammo feeders for slingshots.

 

[The.Tumbleweed]

My conclusion to my original post is that I wasted my $50. The item arrived with no instructions and it certainly is not intuitive to me how to put it together to work. It also came without some of what was promised in the offer. I thought I would just wait to see the ads again and maybe that would give me a good enough image of the assembled device so that I could figure out how to put it together, but I should not be surprised that those ads which had been popping up everywhere, are now gone completely. I guess they made their money from people like me and then disappeared.

I'd be interested in seeing what exactly showed up.

Post a pic, so we can see what it is you received.

 

[s4s4u]

Yes, please ^^^^

Maybe someone has been there and done that....

 

[dadstillsurfs]

Slingshots were standard issue for boys in my neighborhood. We were the "orchard kids" in the Santa Clara Valley, so there was tons of branch crotches for frames, fruit, nuts and dirt clods for ammo. No birds, squirrels, or kids from other streets were safe from our onslaught.
We did try to use slingshots for batting pitching machines, but the biggest ball we could launch was a golf ball. Nobody wanted to be the batter (in case of a wild pitch) and nobody wanted to pitch (in case of a come-backer).
Hmm I've got two grandsons... I'll have to start hunting for materials, Summer is around the corner!

 

[LDB]

It's a shame that word that only rappers use anymore got bastardized to what it is from the original meaning. When I was in school almost 60 years ago we had a huge dictionary maybe 10x14 and 5-6 inches thick in the middle school library on a podium so anyone could go up and use it. I remember looking it up and it being so meaningful and sticking with me. Yes, it included all the slang etc. also but the very first definition of that word, which we'd been taught was the most proper and appropriate definition for any word, was "a trashy person". Nothing to do with anything other than they were trash. And that can apply, and frequently does, to any person on the planet. I don't use the word myself, other than in my brain. And it applies randomly when appropriate to anyone on the planet alright.

 

[gnappi]

Once Muscovy ducks and squirrels feel the sting of my $9 slingshot they tend to stay away.

 

[Yaworski]

I remember looking it up and it being so meaningful and sticking with me.

I just checked my 1930s vintage dictionary. It says it a vulgar term for Negroes or a machine for pushing logs into a sawmill. I'd bet sawyers don't use that term anymore.

 

[stonebuster]

Instructions? We don't need no stinkin' instructions!

ONLY if all else fails!

 

[stonebuster]

My conclusion to my original post is that I wasted my $50. The item arrived with no instructions and it certainly is not intuitive to me how to put it together to work. It also came without some of what was promised in the offer. I thought I would just wait to see the ads again and maybe that would give me a good enough image of the assembled device so that I could figure out how to put it together, but I should not be surprised that those ads which had been popping up everywhere, are now gone completely. I guess they made their money from people like me and then disappeared.

They'll sell you the instructions for an additional $25.