![]() I don't expect you to suddenly change and I'm proud of you for your hunting accomplishments, certainly. ![]() ![]() I'm not trying to preach on a Sunday, just imparting my views on a free forum. It wasn't until I saw human suffering that killing became distasteful to me. I thought of that and yes it bothered me.but not enough to stop me from hunting. When I was young like you Gunnar you couldn't keep me out of the woods hunting (in season only).but it was with fire arms that downed game spot on, not any suffering to speak of other than that painful minute until the brain loses consciousness and it all goes black. Think about it and identify with the animal. What if a cannon ball hit you at the same velocity? A half inch steel ball to you is 75 times more massive to a aning a ball 75 times heavier hits you if compared to a squirrel. imagine trying to find food with a broken femur or totally wasted shoulder. Or trying to travel with a compound fracture of a leg or shoulder. Plenty photograph their kills but it makes me wonder how many got away, limping or to die and suffer choking to death on their own blood or with mamed jaws and can't eat, alone somewhere, wondering why this happened to me when all I was doing was finding something to eat. That means you have to be right on the money with the nervous system.brain/upper spinal cord (neck) and right over the heart.both targets are small and difficult with moving animals if not just lucky or impossible. Slingshot hunting is basically the stoppage of the nervous system and/or cardiac system more by blunt trauma rather than piercing trauma such as would be with bow or gun. Save the bands for hunting and hunting practice only, using slightly longer bands for target practice, 85% stretch, to economize, buying less rubber. That wears out rubber faster but for hunting it doesn't matter, you take less shots hunting, by far, than just practicing 150 shots per session. So cut your bands so your hunting ones are stretched to the max.they simply stop. When you get a chrony for guns and slingshots you'll see what I mean. High school math you are probably taking now should clue you in to what hyperbolas are and what it means.the more you go the more umph per unit of time (in this case stretch) you get. It's amazing actually what that last 10% of stretch 's hyperbolic, not lineal function. Stretching rubber to its maximum produces the maximum velocity. Theory and fact are however two different things often enough. I dunno if that will make that much of a difference but in theory it makes sense. Lead being denser than steel will deliver more energy per square aning the trauma will be deeper and more of a shock with lead. Tapered bands will launch more velocity per gram of rubber than straights. If anything here isn't 10% accurate I am sure someone can correct me. make sure to retest elongation on bands when you move on to new batches. Just because one batch of my 1632 has a 1:4.75 elongation doesn't mean every batch will. So even the stray body shot with all the above precautions still isn't entirely likely to do the job. If you hit in the body you have to do enough internal damage to organs to cause death. Their skeletal structure is also very flexible. I have watched squirrels in my back yard fall from the tops of trees just to run right back up them. My draw is (I think)28 inches so I cut my 1632 to give me just under 6 inches of active length.Īll that being said, squirrels are still rodents. For instance 1 inch of my 1632 bands stretch to 4.75 inches. I usually vice off a 1 inch section of my new bands and stretch it over a ruler to see what it's elongation is. Measure your draw length, then find the best elongation actor on your bands and set your band length so that at your max draw you are also getting maximum elongation. You also want to get maximum elongation on our bands. Looped 1745 should offer enough power, but for the TBG you might want to go to 1-3/4 taper or double bands. On top of that increasing the velocity of your bands would help as well. Since you are measuring in grains I think you are already using lead shot though. ![]() If you wanna limit the amount of suffering I'd suggest using lead shot as it's density will cause the most blunt force damage.
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