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03-30-2011, 07:44 AM
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YouTube - Shooting Machetes with the Slingshot
I wonder what kind of thought process brought about this as being a good idea? 
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03-30-2011, 08:00 AM
|  | I have a very tasty head. | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: NJ | | Who knew there was a slingshot channel?  |
03-30-2011, 08:50 AM
| | | | Imagine an entire war being waged with that single weapon.
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03-30-2011, 09:05 AM
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03-30-2011, 09:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | That's about as good of an idea as rocket-powered chainsaws...and by good I mean THE BEST.
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03-30-2011, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | He sounded like some sort of assassin or something when he was talking about how simple the firing mechanism was... I don't think I would want to anger that man...
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03-30-2011, 10:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Des Moines, IA, USA | | | I would like to see him shoot it at something more robust than a cardboard box, at a distance of more than two yards.
Freakin' ridiculous concept, though. |
03-30-2011, 11:24 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I, personally, prefer a weapon whose projectiles cannot be deflected by a garbage can lid.
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03-30-2011, 11:29 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | I wont be impressed until someone builds something that can shoot porcupines.
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03-30-2011, 11:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denton, Texas | | | sweet idea, very nicely built mechanism, super dangerous....but the actual shot was a bit of a let down. For the effort and danger issues, i want a little more excitement with the result. |
03-30-2011, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Relic I wont be impressed until someone builds something that can shoot porcupines. | +1
Maybe use the old Exploding Bats idea from World War 2 in the porcupines as well...
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03-30-2011, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Relic I wont be impressed until someone builds something that can shoot porcupines. | Pfft, The squirrel catapult can do that, so long as you can pick up a porcupine.
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03-30-2011, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania Pfft, The squirrel catapult can do that, so long as you can pick up a porcupine. | What about a Honey Badger launcher? 
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03-30-2011, 12:23 PM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania Pfft, The squirrel catapult can do that, so long as you can pick up a porcupine. | You wouldn't have to - they would be held in a giant 10 round drum mag and loaded automatically. Then when they hit their target they stick fast and hilarity ensues.
Hey, people laughed at Einstien!!
well, yeah it was at his hair but still.
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03-30-2011, 12:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Can the hedgehogs be interchanged with Honey Badgers? If yes, I will begin working on a patent.
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03-30-2011, 01:25 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Crap. I think I deleted my post because I thought I double posted and now all I have to say is - squirrel catapult FTW. |
04-01-2011, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by MatticusMania Can the hedgehogs be interchanged with Honey Badgers? If yes, I will begin working on a patent. | You could make a bunker buster version out of it.. A few cages of pissed off Honey Badgers into those Afghanistan caves and see the Taliban recruitment rates drop dramatically 
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04-01-2011, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk | FORTY YEAR OLD VIRGIN ALERT!! 
Gee, how did they lose World War II?...I just don't get it. 
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04-01-2011, 04:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I might have found it interesting at 15, a thing that fires machetes, but later on, no.....it's a strange interest, wouldn't he like stamp collecting instead? It's very therapeutic so I'm told.
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04-01-2011, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | Actually this guy makes custom slingshots that can put steel ball bearings through helmet faceplates... Check out his other videos. It helps that he's a huge guy.
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