Have you ever killed anything with a sling shot?

[Irving]

So I know this guy, that just moved into this new house, and has these four raccoons that keep showing up and hanging out in his grape vine. Last night, his neighbors came over and shot at them with a Gamo Whisper air rifle, and he hit one of them with a 3/8" steel shot out of his sling shot.

Then, tonight, he tree'd some of the raccoons in the neighbor's tree. He shot one of them 10 times with a CO2 powered pellet gun. The shot raccoon stopped moving and laid in the tree, and the other raccoon, climbed down and ran away. He went back outside with a stick, to try to knock the dead raccoon out of the tree. The problem was that when the end of the stick got about 6 inches from the dead raccoon's face, the raccoon decided that it wasn't dead, and started moving around. Being afraid that he was seconds from having and angry, wounded raccoon land on his face, while he is half way up a tree, this guy jumps out of the tree. The raccoon climbed higher in the tree and tried to hide. This guy goes and gets the slingshot out, and hits the raccoon a few more times with the 3/8" steel buckshot, but the raccoon just jumps out of the tree and waddles away.

So, back to the original question. Have you ever killed something with a slingshot? People talk about having a sling shot for small game, but if this guy can't even kill a raccoon with it, what good is a slingshot? Comments? Experiences?

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[ChunkyMonkey]

Tell YOUR neighbor that Bear Grylls would've caught and eat them raccoons.

[Irving]

I hear this guy used to have a large camp knife tied to the end of a stick for the time he was going to try and eliminate some raccoons from underneath his mother-in-law's trailer, but he just took the knife off the other day. He was disappointed because the raccoons climbing from the tree to his grape vine are within striking distance and he may just have to stab them and club them.

On another note, knowing how tough raccoons are now, he is sure glad he didn't ever have the opportunity try to corner and stab to death four raccoons at the same time, while being in the prone position underneath a mobile home, like he had originally planned.

[sniper7]

I killed the neighbors cat with my sling shot after it kept coming into our yard and pestering my dog. It took many attempts as body shots never really hurt it from what I could tell. It took weeks of trying and several confirmed hits but a headshot is what did it. I was in 4th grade and didn't like that cat messing with my new dog!

I have also killed pine squirrels with a slingshot!

[Irving]

I was upset at you for killing your neighbor's pet, but I can't really say anything about what you did in the fourth grade. However, you'd think the cat would stop coming into your yard after taking several body shots. Of course, you'd also think these raccoons would stop coming back into the yard two minutes after being shot at over and over.

All that being said, I hope I never have to depend on using a sling shot alone to keep me from starving to death.

[Danimal]

It takes a clean headshot to kill anything bigger than a squirrel, but even then a raccoon needs to be finished off with a shovel. They are tough little bastards.

[Troublco]

Raccoons are tough critters. There's a reason why there were dogs bred just for raccoon hunting...a raccoon can kill a dog, sometimes more than one, and tear a few others up in the process. I don't think I'd try to kill one with a slingshot; you'd have to get a good headshot to have a good chance at it. Quite possibly more than one.

[gnihcraes]

I've killed birds and squirrels with slingshot as a kid. Nothing bigger. I always use marbles too for ammo in slingshots. BB's work pretty well too, but much harder to hold and aim with.

I've killed skunks with the 1000fps airguns. Among other various critters. On the bigger animals like skunks and raccoons, good clean headshots is the only way. Too much fur to penetrate other body parts.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

If your friend needs to borrow my Benjamin Sheridan air rifle pm me. It's a .20 caliber 700 fps.