Who the hell hunts with just a knife....I mean, besides Chuck Norris, of course...who only really needs a knife when he's hunting grizzly bears...
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Slingshot! Illegal to carry?
- Thread starter Woodpecker
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Illegal in TEXAS? Illegal in TEXAS? A slingshot is illegal in Texas... Illegal in TEXAS?
I actually like to go hunting with a dull swiss army knife. It makes it more exciting when you have to stab the deer 500 times.
Or just 1 time if you're Chuck Norris...then finish that bitch off with a roundhouse.
thepowerofpancakes
Eagle Member
KMaC
Double Eagle Member
I know right, we have laws, who woulda thunkit
Really... When did this happen?
Check out this old guy with a slingshot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0
Amazing.
Amazing.
kerplunk
Double Eagle Member
It's coming right for us!!
kerplunk
Double Eagle Member
I know right, we have laws, who woulda thunkit
Yeah, I think there are laws against not being armed.
If a knife is a primitive weapon, then I think a slingshot is probably fine. You might not want to come out of the park with a string of squirrels and beaver trailing from your bag though.
kerplunk
Double Eagle Member
At first I was thinking "Man, it's probably not good for his gun to throw it at discs"
discgolphinmafaukner
Birdie Member
Man I bet it took that guy a lot of time to get that accurate with that sling shot. It almost makes me want to go buy one and start shootin'. I'll leave it in the car in Texas though
Just save your self the trouble and carry a golf ball or baseball in your bag.
Or if you are a gambling man just use another disc to try and get a stuck disc down.
Doesn't something have to have moving, working, parts to be considered mechanical? How does elastic qualify as mechanical? On the other hand, sling shots were used by the IRA as a weapon. However, yo-yo's were originally weapons as well, so should they be banned as weapons? I'm pretty sure a 3rd rate lawyer could get you out of sling shot possession charges if you actually were arrested.
Either way, I better not get arrested for when I use my atlatl hunting with stone projectile points. I better wear my blaze orange loin cloth and pelts just to be on the safe side.
Technohic
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Actually, I got into throwing knives when I was 20. Some guy that was a friend of a friends uncle, who we stayed with when visiting in Dallas, actually; had a cork dart board and a bunch of steak knives with the wooded part of the handle busted off. When I asked him about it, he wound up teaching me how to throw.
After a bunch of clanks from the knifes bouncing across the ground, my buddy and his brother who were inside, started to hear more thuds of the knives sticking. Him and his brother came out to see what was going on and were a bit nervous when I started hitting all 6 knives in the circle of the inner double score line consitantly.
Only in Texas.
Anyway, when I got back home to Ohio, I started looking things up and eventually got myself an 18" throwing Bowie to dork off with, and along with it came a book about knife hunting for wild boar. They actually throw from a tree stand a big knife like I got and have it so the handle will strike the boar in the head to stun it while they jump down from the tree stand and hurry to the proper distance for the right rotation of their knife then throw a 2nd knife for the kill.
Had a book somewhere but thats been 11 years ago.
You get a nice Star Wraith, and you got a nice throwing wepon. You could really hurt someone with a good throw
karottop420
Par Member
like midnight said just carry a baseball in ya bag that's what i do. that's if there arn't any branches lw enought for me to climb the tree lol
WillACarpenter
* Ace Member *
Personally I carry a cheap slingshot that has the "wrist brace" deal. I have NO IDEA if it's legal..but I'm not really worried about it.
I have owned like 5 of these over the years, all except my current having come from a local Wal*Mart..not even behind a counter or anything. I didn't even look at Wal*Mart for this one as I bought it for a total of $4 shipped, brand new, with a replacement tube.
I figure it will be in my bag 99% of it's life and most of the places I could get it stuck in a high tree are: 1) not well populated 2) not near police officers 3) generally someplace I can hide in the woods.
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I have owned like 5 of these over the years, all except my current having come from a local Wal*Mart..not even behind a counter or anything. I didn't even look at Wal*Mart for this one as I bought it for a total of $4 shipped, brand new, with a replacement tube.
I figure it will be in my bag 99% of it's life and most of the places I could get it stuck in a high tree are: 1) not well populated 2) not near police officers 3) generally someplace I can hide in the woods.
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Mason65
Eagle Member
Truth, but as a fellow Texan I feel this is the LAST place where a silly slingshot law would be passed...its Texas...we ride horses to school and shoot things for a living (at least thats what some other states may think.)
