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July 3, 2020
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I just had this pop up on my computer… I know that this would have got me into more trouble than I already experienced… but it sure looks like fun. Might have to buy one to relive my childhood! 
November 7, 2015
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To relive my childhood I’d have to make one. I happen to have a fresh bag of big rubber bands and a heavy wire coat hanger.
Mike
September 19, 2014
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We made ours, but really not very powerful. Handle from old hardwood scrap, and bands cut from auto inner tubes. Worked for Dad, but synthetic rubber didn’t have the real snap to it of the old natural rubber. We tried trading into surgical tubing without success. Tim PS. Old marbles were great shot material.
December 9, 2002
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The steel Round Iron Ore balls, along the RxR tracks, that fell off the cars that were loaded at the old LTV Steel company, coming out of Cleveland made great ammunition for our homemade Slingshots when we we’re younger. The rusty heavy balls were pretty consistent in their size for the most part, as 3/8-1/2 inch seemed to be about the sizes we would collect, until the train cops would run us off. The tracks we would hoke to were about a mile or so from our neighborhood where we’d venture to. Carrying them back home in small paper bags was a chore back then that we never seemed to mind doing. We didn’t have small backpacks like the kids do today. That would have been the trick.
Tony
March 15, 2020
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My dad taught me to make what he called a snip. Take one of moms clothes pins and a strip of old bicycle tube and nail the strip to the top of the clothes pin. When shooting I would flick my wrist forward increasing the velocity. He didn’t like rubber band guns that you aimed in case a band snapped back into my eye.
Regarding an eye injury my Swedish brothers BB gun jammed so he looked down the barrel to see what was wrong. He went to Dr. with a slight injury.
I never let him forget this.
Don
October 14, 2024
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I’m 64 and I still have my Wrist Rocket from the day………and the box!
November 7, 2015
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tim tomlinson said
We made ours, but really not very powerful. Handle from old hardwood scrap, and bands cut from auto inner tubes. Worked for Dad, but synthetic rubber didn’t have the real snap to it of the old natural rubber. We tried trading into surgical tubing without success. Tim PS. Old marbles were great shot material.
Tim-
I’d forgotten about the surgical tubing, hadn’t thought about that since running into them at the PT’s office.
Mike
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