Reverse discrimination?

[twerpymoon]

I recently bought my grandson a slingshot. He was delighted. His mother not so much.
Where I got the slingshot, they only had steel ammo and I deferred on that.
So, I hied myself off to Wally World.

During checkout, when I swiped the white marbles, the screen said I had to wait for an associate to verify my age. Accordingly, a youth looked up from their phone, came round, and "cleared" me. I said thank you and swiped the bag of colored marbles. The screen said next item please.
What the hey? If the marbles are white, you're carded, but nobody cares if they are red, brown, yellow, or mixed?
Whatever....

 

[Fox Mike]

So if you hit a bird or person with a marble it doesn't hurt as much as a steel ball? I somehow don't see any gain with the glass. They can shatter, the steel balls don't.

 

[Cholo]

They're both glass.

 

[sceva]

The Daisy is cheaper. 100 for $4.18 vs 50 for $2.97

 

[Fox Mike]

My point it deferring to glass marbles over steel balls. Forget the price difference; ballistically what is the difference? Hit someone with a full pull with either ammo and they are HURT!

 

[Watertender]

One is marked slingshot ammo so needs to be nannyfied because you might shoot something with it.....On the other hand plain old marbles are multicultural and politically correct.

Hint.... if you use green marbles they blend into the ground better after you bean someone with one.... Just saying....

 

[Watertender]

My point it deferring to glass marbles over steel balls. Forget the price difference; ballistically what is the difference? Hit someone with a full pull with either ammo and they are HURT!

One place I worked had a picnic area for employees in the building. Most people worked days during the week and used it then. Nights and weekends it would be vandalized and made a mess of by kids. I would be on the top floor of the building overlooking the area and caught more than one older teen wrecking something. I nailed a couple of them with a well placed marble and the vandalism was drastically reduced.

 

[bobski]

its against the law to play marbles with sling shot ammo. it requires an ffl...

 

[twerpymoon]

You guys are on point today.... Keep 'em coming.

 

[Cholo]

I wouldn't want to use a steel ball on any critter I didn't want to kill! Glass marbles are just the ticket!

I tried to find a specific short video I watched yesterday about a compound bow holding multiple steel balls. It was rated about 420 fps which could kill a coyote.

Here's another short video of a similar setup: :16

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Wrist Rockets and steelies taught me a lot about penetration on various things vs using marbles that shattered....

 

[Mobuck]

Wrist rocket and marble vs bobcat resulted in the most amazing vertical feline launch I've witnessed.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

I always had a slingshot when I was a kid.
Marbles never flew straight. They would always make a nice curve .
A good rock always shot better.

 

[jimbo1096]

Wrist rocket and marble vs bobcat resulted in the most amazing vertical feline launch I've witnessed.

Works on squirrels too. I’ve seen one launch himself off a tree 25 feet when he got nailed going after my birdfeeders.

 

[Watertender]

Wrist rocket and marble vs bobcat resulted in the most amazing vertical feline launch I've witnessed.

When I was newly married to my first wife we lived in the city. There was a dog that used to get in the garbage on garbage day and make a mess. It was an unneutered Airedale and he was headfirst in a garbage can across the street from our house. I sailed a marble at him with my wrist rocket and scored a perfect hit on his "Sacajewea"!!! He got stuck in the can trying to run through it while making the loudest howls I have ever heard. I ran across the street and started kicking the can and rolling the dog down the street. When he untangled himself from the garbage can he took off at top speed still making those howls. After that whenever I saw that dog all I had to do was holler and he would run howling his head off.

 

[powder smoke]

When I was newly married to my first wife we lived in the city. There was a dog that used to get in the garbage on garbage day and make a mess. It was an unneutered Airedale and he was headfirst in a garbage can across the street from our house. I sailed a marble at him with my wrist rocket and scored a perfect hit on his "Sacajewea"!!! He got stuck in the can trying to run through it while making the loudest howls I have ever heard. I ran across the street and started kicking the can and rolling the dog down the street. When he untangled himself from the garbage can he took off at top speed still making those howls. After that whenever I saw that dog all I had to do was holler and he would run howling his head off.

If that was my dog YOU would have got the same Dose That is the meanest thing I ever heard!
You should be ashamed of yourself!

 

[thinckley]

If that was my dog YOU would have got the same Dose That is the meanest thing I ever heard!
You should be ashamed of yourself!

To be fair, the owner of the dog deserves the treatment for not containing and controlling his dog, allowing him to dump trash all over that someone else has to clean up.

A slingshot and a scare hurts the dog a lot less than a broken chicken bone or who knows what else is in the trash. Not to mention what others might have used instead (bb gun, rock salt loads, etc.).

 

[gundog5]

“When marbles are outlawed only outlaws will have marbles.”

 

[GypsmJim]

When I was newly married to my first wife we lived in the city. There was a dog that used to get in the garbage on garbage day and make a mess. It was an unneutered Airedale and he was headfirst in a garbage can across the street from our house. I sailed a marble at him with my wrist rocket and scored a perfect hit on his "Sacajewea"!!! He got stuck in the can trying to run through it while making the loudest howls I have ever heard. I ran across the street and started kicking the can and rolling the dog down the street. When he untangled himself from the garbage can he took off at top speed still making those howls. After that whenever I saw that dog all I had to do was holler and he would run howling his head off.

My town has a leash law. Nevertheless, the guy down the street about 12 houses away would let his dog loose every night and he would come and take a dump in my backyard. It was ruining the grass. So, I resurrected my old sling shot and got some steel balls.

One evening there he was, tail up and his behind pointing at me, and I let him have it. I guess practice paid off. Yup, also his sackagewea. I never saw a dog jump that high, nor howl that loud and long. He never came back.

No, I don't feel ashamed. The dog owner should, though. A roaming dog is illegal. Also, in my state, if a dog is on the prowl during hunting season chasing deer, it is legal to shoot them.

 

[Bud0505]

I use 3/8” clay biodegradable balls for varmint control.

 

[JackpineWillie]

We used to gather taconite pellets from the rail road tracks (MN). Basically iron ore rolled into marbles. Shot good, hit hard!

 

[CHEVYINLINE6]

Jill Biden was seen in Wal-Mart the other day buying a bag of marbles. Seems hubby Joe lost his.

CHEVYINLINE6.

 

[wproct]

When I was newly married to my first wife we lived in the city. There was a dog that used to get in the garbage on garbage day and make a mess. It was an unneutered Airedale and he was headfirst in a garbage can across the street from our house. I sailed a marble at him with my wrist rocket and scored a perfect hit on his "Sacajewea"!!! He got stuck in the can trying to run through it while making the loudest howls I have ever heard. I ran across the street and started kicking the can and rolling the dog down the street. When he untangled himself from the garbage can he took off at top speed still making those howls. After that whenever I saw that dog all I had to do was holler and he would run howling his head off.

Now that was funny!! I could just picture it in my mind and started laughing out loud and my wife asked "what's wrong with you?"

 

[Watertender]

"When marbles are outlawed only outlaws will have marbles."

The right to keep and bear marbles shall not be infringed!

 

[Zonker5]

In the fall I collect a bucket of acorns from the yard. They work quite well in my slingshot to keep squirrels out of the bird feeder.

 

[pyth0n]

The Daisy is cheaper. 100 for $4.18 vs 50 for $2.97

That's because of where the lgbtqrstuvwxyz marbles are harvested from.

 

[hike]

My town has a leash law. Nevertheless, the guy down the street about 12 houses away would let his dog loose every night and he would come and take a dump in my backyard. It was ruining the grass. So, I resurrected my old sling shot and got some steel balls.

One evening there he was, tail up and his behind pointing at me, and I let him have it. I guess practice paid off. Yup, also his sackagewea. I never saw a dog jump that high, nor howl that loud and long. He never came back.

No, I don't feel ashamed. The dog owner should, though. A roaming dog is illegal. Also, in my state, if a dog is on the prowl during hunting season chasing deer, it is legal to shoot them.

Living inside a city with a lease law, a neighbor would their dog out daily. It was a bigger dog but trusting of people. I called it over while I wondered how to convince the owner (whom I did not know) to stop this country behavior. I removed the dog's collar (collar, dog license) and sat it on the front porch where it could be seen from the street -- that is, the owner could see & retrieve the missing collar and the license easily. The dog was never let loose again. Solved the problem without inflicting pain on the innocence creature.

 

[GypsmJim]

Living inside a city with a lease law, a neighbor would their dog out daily. It was a bigger dog but trusting of people. I called it over while I wondered how to convince the owner (whom I did not know) to stop this country behavior. I removed the dog's collar (collar, dog license) and sat it on the front porch where it could be seen from the street -- that is, the owner could see & retrieve the missing collar and the license easily. The dog was never let loose again. Solved the problem without inflicting pain on the innocence creature.

Dogs are smarter than you think. A good zapping and he won't come back. They remember.

Humans, on the other hand, are too unpredictable. There is a 50:50 chance that the guy might not take heed of the simple warning. And since most dog owners revere their dogs more than their spouses, retaliation is always a possibility.

 

[Watertender]

Dogs are smarter than you think. A good zapping and he won't come back. They remember.

Humans, on the other hand, are too unpredictable. There is a 50:50 chance that the guy might not take heed of the simple warning. And since most dog owners revere their dogs more than their spouses, retaliation is always a possibility.

Usually people who let their dogs run free are not the kind that take very well to instruction from others. As you said, they might be the retaliatory type and try to give you grief in one way or another.
So you have to convince the dog that they don't want to be anywhere near you or your house. Dogs learn rapidly where they should not be, that's how the invisible fence systems work. When I scored a direct hit on that Airedale's Sacagawea with a marble it was instant behavior modification. Rolling him in the garbage can was just a little added lesson in territorial boundaries. I had a friend that convinced a dog with an M80, the dog was digging in his yard and he tossed the M80 out the window behind it. The reaction was instant and it took. That dog would cross the street and run when it came to his house.

 

[Cofaler]

We have a couple neighbors who let their dogs run free in the canyon. They kill chickens, (even their own chickens), and have killed/attacked other neighbors' dogs, yet I had one of them tell me that it was his right to let his dogs run wild and if we didn't like it we had to build fences to keep them out. I told him if that was his position on it then he needed to go to every neighbor up here and tell them that in person, and if he didn't I would. He backpedaled pretty quick, saying that that was what his (idiot) son in law told him. I said that I wouldn't take legal advice from him and didn't think he should either, and asked him how he thought his reasoning would play out if someone called the sheriff on him. This guy has pugs too that are harmless and come over here once in awhile, we just chase them back over and let them know.

There's a bunch of dogs further down who 'pack up', and chase deer, etc. Some of the guys down there have been thinning them out.

I grew up in the sticks of Maine and back then people controlled their dogs and there were no problems, but nobody had chickens, at least where I was. We had lived in the suburbs out of necessity for the military and work for most of our work lives, and only recently were able to move out here full time, so dog squabbles of this magnitude are new to us. We love dogs, (In general way more than people). A year ago it would have been tough for us to think it would be justified for a neighbor to shoot another neighbor's dog, but when I went to my buddy's house and saw the mess of 5-6 dead chickens, with the ones that lived all torn up and missing feathers, wings, etc, it became more clear to us. He lives off grid on a VERY tight budget, and losing 6 laying hens was a blow to him. We have small dogs, chickens that my wife has become attached to, outdoor cats for the gophers in the garden, etc.

We have two shotguns at the back door, one loaded with rubber buckshot that is conspicuously marked so, and one with buck 'n slugs.