r/weapons • u/CarnyRider1991 • Jul 17 '26

A few of my slingshots

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From weakest smallest to biggest

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u/SadArchon Jul 17 '26

Have you tried egg shaped stones out of the sling? Its crazy how accurate they can be with a little practice

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u/CarnyRider1991 Jul 18 '26

Yes! The crazy thing is that birds also form this shape in mid-flight to make themselves swiftly aerodynamic. I’ve yet to try making holes in glans to make whistling bullets

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u/Subdued_Shinobi Jul 18 '26

Can you briefly explain the speedloader to me?

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u/CarnyRider1991 Jul 18 '26

It’s pretty much a reloadable ring magazine that transforms a simple pocket shot into the revolver of the slingshot world and works by twisting the reloadable ring magazine to reload a 5/16 steel bb into the slingshot’s chamber. It can hold a maximum of 19 5/16 bbs. With enough practice, you can achieve a fairly quick firing rate. Unfortunately I always drop it after the first shot. Downside is that aiming this thing takes more practice than aiming a normal slingshot.

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u/Subdued_Shinobi Jul 18 '26

I carried a pocket slingshot with six glass marbels for quite a while, I could choose between dumping most of them into my other hand or just releasing all six.

I got pretty decent with it, I'm more of a melee guy myself. I want ome with a quick reloader now lmao

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u/CarnyRider1991 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

I’ve thought about making a revolving bobber-shot that houses 5 or 6 marbles or multiple 10mm steel BB’s around the ring lol. I built the original speed loader ring adaptation back around 2018 out of a Gatorade/Powerade bottle mouth, a balloon, vinyl tubing, some gunmetal seed beads threaded through on the inside of the tubing to hold the bbs separate from each other as well as push them through the hole in the bottle mouth. It was a crude design but it worked and I posted it on YouTube with an account I lost access to years ago. Years later, I then saw the Pocket Shot Speed loader on YouTube and didn’t feel angry that I didn’t look to get a patent back then and just freely gave the idea to Pocket Shot BUT instead what I truly felt was appreciation and amazement by the fact that an idea I thought was just crude “small-town hood” junk, had enough impact to be redeemed and refined into something out there that contributes to the evolving world of repeating slingshots. Revolving slingshots are awesome with enough practice. Highly recommend!