Slingshot - Very Frustrated!

**NatureboyAlec** · 07-14-2007, 11:07 AM

Hey guys. I own the Marksman Adjustabel Slingshot, shown below:

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Heres a link for more info: http://www.marksman.com/3061_slings.php

Anyway, I have had it since Christmas and have finally started using it lol. I am so frustrated though, because I cannot hit a mansized target from 15 feet away! The brass bb either goes to a far left/right (which could be hazardous to people watching), does a high arc into the air and lands halfway to the target, jams in between the front of the slingshot, or just shoots straight towards the ground. I have some questions:

1. How do you hold this slingshot?
2. How do you aim with it? (Where are the "crosshairs")
3. How to pull it back? (How far and completely vertical, or slanting downwards or upwards?)

If somebody could figure out why I'm having such a hard time with this it would really help out thanks. I am going on an all day hike with my two friends and we want to see if we can get a rabbit lol or make stream water drinkable (See my other thread, a link we be provided in my doublepost below)

**NatureboyAlec** · 07-14-2007, 11:27 AM

http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...read.php?t=232

**Sarge47** · 07-14-2007, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by NatureboyAlec

Hey guys. I own the Marksman Adjustabel Slingshot, shown below:

Guests can not see images in the messages. Please register in the forum.

Heres a link for more info: http://www.marksman.com/3061_slings.php

Anyway, I have had it since Christmas and have finally started using it lol. I am so frustrated though, because I cannot hit a mansized target from 15 feet away! The brass bb either goes to a far left/right (which could be hazardous to people watching), does a high arc into the air and lands halfway to the target, jams in between the front of the slingshot, or just shoots straight towards the ground. I have some questions:

1. How do you hold this slingshot?
2. How do you aim with it? (Where are the "crosshairs")
3. How to pull it back? (How far and completely vertical, or slanting downwards or upwards?)

If somebody could figure out why I'm having such a hard time with this it would really help out thanks. I am going on an all day hike with my two friends and we want to see if we can get a rabbit lol or make stream water drinkable (See my other thread, a link we be provided in my doublepost below)

Firing a slingshot is much like using a primitive bow and arrow, it's going to take lots of practice. I'm assuming you got some instructions on how to stand,aim, and shoot with the slingshot. If not maybe they have a website you can check out. Also, maybe your ammo is too small/light-weight for the slingshot? Try heavier projectiles like marbles, ball bearings, and small round pebbles/rocks.

**Tony uk** · 07-15-2007, 11:19 AM

Make up a few targets and just practice untill you get the hang of it, i have a smaller slingshot that i got in Spain 2 years ago and thats how i got better

**spiritman** · 07-16-2007, 12:25 AM

It sounds like your problem is just the size of your shot. it needs to a lot bigger than a bb. Have you tried shooting more than one at a time?

**LiL' bunny fufu** · 07-16-2007, 10:42 PM

mabey start close to ur target thhen move back 1 step evry time u hit it

**rusty_oxydado** · 07-25-2007, 01:52 PM

In holding the slingshot, grasp it in your left hand if you are right handed. Set the wrist brace set on top of your fore arm.
place your shot on the center of the pocket so there is equal pull on both rubbers at the same time.
Extent yor left arm, bring the pocket to your right cheek bone.

To start out aim by gazing along and down through both rubbers where they line up at the same hight as both top post of the sling shot, and in the center of this same plain.

Open the fingers holding the pocket and allow the sling shot to do it's business.
Follow this same process, make shot groups of three, see where you are consistantly hitting and converge where you are aiming to where you are hitting.
Practice, it is a lot of fun, to go cheep, buy a bag of marbels, they are cheep, and you can better see them while they are flying.
Good luck, have fun, and play safely.

**trax** · 07-25-2007, 04:48 PM

BB's are definitely too small, get the marbles or some 1/4" steel ball bearings. Follow rusty's aiming advice. Definitely keep practicing because you want to be deadly accurate if you're going to shoot rabbits. You can kill one with a head shot, but you don't want to break the poor critter's leg or something and have it crawling around in the bush suffering. Most shots you should be able to stay on a fairly good vertical plane in the stance that rusty described, because if you shoot too far, you're losing velocity and striking power.