SlingBow DVD

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morning I'm Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me for this DVD presentation on hunting the slingshot and modifications for the sling bow what I wanted to do is I wanted to make a DVD number one that's going to go along with the sale of the new sling boat kit to explain some of the modifications that you can do with this yourself and also some of the things that are out there for sale as well as I wanted to create a video for youtube that i can put excerpts from this DVD on and at the same time I'm also creating a DVD series that will go with my new book securing meat sources on hunting the slingshot with its various modifications so what I wanted to do today was I wanted to start shooting that video and what I want to do is I want to start with the slingshot itself we'll talk about some of the modifications that I've made to the slingshot to use it for different things like hunting with arrows but in the beginning just a normal marksman slingshot I'll take this piece of string out of it comes out of the box pretty much just like this this is a folding wrist rocketmodel slingshot they come with a light duty or normal duty band on them and I like to replace that with a black heavy duty band those are kind of hard to find we've sourced them at the Pathfinder school now it should have them on our website in the next few days but if you can find the black band it will come with the kit if you buy the sling boat kit in the assembly but if you can find the black band it's a very good band compared to the band that comes on the slingshot out of the box it gives you a lot more power if you're planning to shoot arrows out of the slingshot I would suggest that you cut about one inch off of each band shorten the band a little bit and it gives just a little bit more power when you're shooting arrows out of this device but just like it stands now it will shoot a variety of ammunition it is very good for hunting small game anything up to you know rabbits squirrels birds whatnot and you can get a variety of ammunition for this or you can create your own ammunition or just a sling shot itself it's a very good survival tool probably my number one choice of a weapon that I would carry in my survival kit and I try to carry one most of the time whether it's a sling bow or just a sling now what I want to talk about first is ammunition for hunting with a slingshot in its normal state you can obviously go out and find rounded rocks in any creek bed or things like that you can collect those in your pocket or in a pouch and carry those for ammunition you want them to be as round as possible because they'll fly truer that way the other thing that you can do is you can buy a bullet mold that molds round ball for black powder and you can buy those a lot of places online for about 20 bucks from Lee bullet mold and you can go to any tire store like a tire discounters or a place that replaces tires and they will collect the wheel weights for you if you ask them to in a bucket you can take them home melt them down over fire like we've shown in past videos to make ammunition with and you can melt those into a round ball mold just like you would for a black powder musket or rifle and you can then use that ammunition for your slingshots a very cheap and easy way to create your own ammunition beyond that you can buy ammunition for a slingshot it doesn't matter whether you go out and buy ball bearings or whether you buy manufactured ammo like this dayz premium steel shot which is fuller inch diameter steel shot that's very good for like birds and squirrels and things like that or you can even buy things like marbles and these marbles are specifically made for slingshots but they don't have to be marbles that are made for slingshots that can be any glass marble well shoot fine for larger caliber blunt-force trama Thai projectile out of your slingshot okay the first thing I want to talk about in this next step is I want to talk about form for shooting a slingshot I see a lot of people shooting slingshots a lot of different ways on the internet on YouTube and things like that I want to show you how I shoot a slingshot and what I think is good slingshot form is very similar to good form if you were shooting a bow and arrow in that you need to find an anchor point you need to get a full draw and you need to be repetitive in what you do so that you create muscle memory because that will allow you to gain accuracy so just as an example if I were going to shoot regular round ball ammunition out of my slingshot the way I would use a slingshot is I would make sure first of all that slingshot has got a good cup around my wrist and that there's nothing my wrists like bracelets or anything like that interfering with where that slingshot sits so that sits in the same place all the time then generally I'll just pull it back a little bit letting it rest in my hand and then wrap my hand around the slingshot so it gets a good natural pull in the same spot so I'm not holding on to it and then jerking it sideways I want to bury it in my palm and then hold on to it then what you want to do is you want to put your ammunition in there and one thing is very important with these bands is that when you put these bands on you have them in the same place so that when you pocket your ammunition you have an even pocket you want this pocket to be even with the ball in it so you can rotate it a little bit to even it up but you want to make sure that you have an even spot on the pocket and that you got level sides in both directions make sure that your ammunition is in the pocket seat it in the center grip it on both sides with your thumb and forefinger again bury that slingshot of your palm and wrap it and then when you pull it back you want to get the same anchor point all the time what I try to do is I try to put that thumb in the middle of my mouth when I'm aiming and that's how I use my anchor point so I'll bring it back straight back telling my finger goes into my mouth right here and I'm touching that canine tooth of my thumb and then let go and you want to keep that arm up after you shoot it that's just proper form it's the same thing with a bow and arrow and we get into the sling bow in a minute that will help you tremendously with your shooting of arrows

so that's your proper form for shooting the slingshot with round ball ammunition okay so the next thing I want to talk about is I want to talk about shooting arrows or projectile weapons out of a slingshot and for that you need to modify the slingshot a little bit because you cannot just rest an arrow in this slot and shoot this slingshot because what happens is you have to have that arrow level with your string or with your bands just like on a bow otherwise it's going to deflect okay so you have to have something on this to make an arrow rest now we went through several different modifications and our latest modification that will be sold with this kit is pretty good and what it is is it's a piece of PVC that has been heat bent and molded hand cut and then formed

like you would form Kydex around this marksman slingshot so this will only fit this one style of slingshot you can make one of these yourself it's not that difficult but it does take time the maker of this takes about two hours to make one of these with tiny hand cuts it hand molds it and paints it and what it does it just snaps to the front of the slingshot just like this and it's a tight fit you can hear it snap on there because that's what you want it doesn't move around it doesn't rattle now when you're not shooting this you want to remove this so that you don't spring this out over time and not get that good tight fit to take it off all you have to do is lift it from the bottom where the insert hole is for the sling bow fishing reel that we'll talk about later and just pop it off when you're done put it away and put it in your bag like I do and you're ready to rock so once you've got that on there now you're ready shoot arrows and there's a couple different ways that you can do so once you've got this device or some type of device that will shoot arrows on your slingshot which makes it now sling bow as I call it you can now figure out a way to modify arrows to shoot from this device there's a couple different ways to do that that I'm going to show you right now the first one is you can take a normal arrow that you buy from any sporting goods store Walmart Kmart during hunting season for about five or five to seven dollars just a carbon arrow and this one just has a regular hunting tip on it or a normal field tip on it I should say and it's made for compound but you can see it has short feathers on it so that indicates that it's really a compound bow arrow a lot of compound bow shooters use these short feathers that part really doesn't matter the key to this is for the modification I use on this without a string and you can do this a couple different ways is I take a quarter inch cap that would go on the bottom of like furniture that you buy it like Menards or Lowe's and I pull out the nock which is usually not glued in anyway I pull that knock out and replace that with this knob and that knob allows you to have something to hold on to in the pocket very similar to around so what you would do is you would take your arrow and you would pull the nock that comes standard in the arrow out and like I said it just slides out and slides back in and you would take that out and what you would do is you would replace that with one of these quarter-inch caps and these are called chair tips and these came from Menards they were about a dollar fifty for a package of four and you just push that over the top of that arrow and the quarter-inch size fits best and then you have something that you can now put into your sling bow that will sit in the pocket very similar to a round ball device that you can actually get a grip on to shoot it now you can actually pull it through and shoot it out of your sling bow so that works out very well now what that modification does is that modification allows you to not have to do anything to your sling bow in order to comfortably shoot arrows out of it very easily and because you have vanes on this and not feathers you don't get very much deflection coming through this so it doesn't this doesn't bother this knob on the back side doesn't bother it any what you can do if you don't want to modify your arrow and you want to use a standard arrow that you buy and just put a field point on it and this is just another standard arrow from a Walmart or k-mart for five to seven dollars is you can take a piece of string and what I've done here is I've taken some bank line and I've made a piece of reverse-wrap two-ply cordage that has a loop on one end and just a knot on the other end and all you have to do with that is then you can feed it through the holes that are already in the slingshot pocket just like this and again this makes it easy to get in and out because this really doesn't have any knots tied in it and then I just open that loop up put the knot through it and twist it back down on itself so that I have a string on here now in effect and now what I actually have is I have more like a bow string that I can release just like I would above what that allows me to do is that allows me to take an arrow place it on this bow string if you will inside the pocket load it into my sling bow and now what I can do is I can in effect use this very similar to a a bow and arrow just like this and that arrow will lay in that groove in about the same spot all the time so I can draw that back just like I would a longbow with a two finger release and shoot it okay the next modification I want to talk about - the sling bow is I want to talk about takedown arrows for a minute what we've done with these we figured out how to make takedown arrows about a year and a half ago and we experimented with a lot to get it where we wanted it but this is a two piece arrow here and you can see that it just unscrews in the center just like this to become two pieces for a smaller package so that you can put that down in your backpack in a smaller tube smaller tube than this even and you can just slide it in your backpack off to the side and carry your arrows that way what you have to do with this the trick to this whole thing is is this arrow to make this thing split all I've done is I've bought arrow inserts just like the ones that go in the front of your arrow you can buy them at most archery stores or Bass Pro Shops and you buy the same size that goes any arrow to begin with then you have to split the arrow once you split the arrow you put an insert on one side and insert on the other side with epoxy and then you just get a piece of all thread from any hardware store that's the same thread as the thread that's on your tip that you're using like this one right here and once you have that you can make a take down arrow very simply by epoxy one side of it into the threads the key to this is where you cut this arrow if you cut this arrow directly in half you can see that these are two different sizes you cut this arrow directly in half it will not fly correctly it has to be cut at the center of gravity of the arrow to find the center of gravity of your arrow what you do is you need to put your tip on the arrow that you plan to use when you shoot this bow so if you're going to use 125 grain or 110 grain field tip then you have to also make sure that if you put broadheads on here or blunt tips which we'll go over in a minute you have to use the same weight so that your arrow will always weigh the same and your center of gravity is always the same place once you figure out what your center of gravity is you can lay that on a table or something like that or on your finger and once you find the center of gravity that's where you cut that and once you cut that arrow then you put your inserts in and you have a takedown arrow so it's a very simple way an inexpensive way to make a takedown arrow so that you can not have to carry a large quiver with arrows sticking out of it you can carry something much smaller that'll actually fit down inside your backpack to store these things if you want to okay so now we want to talk about is going to talk about further modifications to your arrows to use them for different things in the sling bow obviously you can buy different tips for an arrow but generally a field tip will work for most small game hunting they also make what's called a blunt tip which basically is just a rubberized hard tip that you screw in to the front of your arrow instead of the arrowhead itself and as for blunt-force trama for small game this is very good for things like chipmunks ground squirrels you know smaller type mammals this works really well it's not very effective against things the size of rabbits and especially things as tough as actual red squirrels gray squirrels and tree living squirrels you need a point for that the other thing that you can do is you can use broad head type devices and these this is a four blade Muzzy broad head 110 grain and it can be used to hunt bigger game like larger raccoons small pigs and things like that and it's very effective on a type of game but it's actually overkill for smaller animals like squirrels and rabbits you're better off with just a field tip for that now the next modification that I do to my arrows it's a very easy mod that you can do in your house for very little expense is to put a barb on the end of my arrows if I'm going to use them for fishing or frogging and first we'll talk about things like frogging because this modification doesn't require further modification of the arrow as it does for fishing which we'll talk about in a minute but what I do with this is I just take the field tip out of my arrow just like this and I set it down then I get a large safety pin like this one and a multi-tool and the reason I use a safety pin is because it's pretty much spring steel and I keep a couple safety pins in my box that I carry extra field tips blunts and broadheads in in my kit for my sling bow and what you do with this is

basically you just open this safety pin up and open this I up enough by bending it out that this I will fit inside your arrow or inside your I'm sorry over the top of your field tip you can see I'm sliding that on there now and it's on there solid now what I'll do is I'll screw the field tip back into the point just like this maybe tighten down my pliers just to make sure I got a good seat then what I'll do is I'll adjust this tip for the length I want which is about like that and then I'll Bend them backwards basically at a 90 degree angle just like this and what that does is that gives me a spring barb on the back of that arrow and the reason you need a barb on your arrow when you're fishing can so that when it goes through the fish it can't pull back out you've got those Barb's there that will actually penetrate in the hole you can spread those out as much as you want to but when that goes through the fish and tries to pull back out or the Frog it can't come out and that's what you want otherwise just going to pull right straight out the hole and you're going to lose the animal so when you're fishing and frogging you want this barb on your slingbow and that's a very easy way to make that just out of any safety pin as spring steel like that will work great for you so now that we have this thing set up for fishing we can further modify this arrow to shoot off a fishing reel that we can make for the front of the sling bow and that's what we're going to talk about now first we'll modify the arrow then we'll modify the actual sling bow you