Controversial Topic And Poll: Brown Bear & Slingshots

Do You Think Slingshots Should Be Legalized For Hunting Brown Bear?

  • Yes

    Votes: 791 48.3%
  • No

    Votes: 848 51.7%

  • Total voters
    1,639
You can't be serious!!


Absolutely! Have you ever watched a hunting slingbow in action? Since writing my response, I chrono'd one, and with an Easton 2114 AL 30" arrow with a 100 gr head. The avg for 3 shots was 237fps! My old 50lb recurve avg 199fps, and the old Bear compound from the early 90's came in at 224fps!

Slingbows, with heavy tubes, can be impressive, and since so few have any experience with a true hunting slingbow, it is often met with skepticism. Very similar to when I began bow hunting decades ago and people laughed at the idea of taking whitetails with a wooden recurve and "stick arrows" made of cedar. Someone forgot to tell the natives it could not be done. :D
 
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A couple of slingbow kills!

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Chief AJ - Home
 
Slingbow style devices are pretty common in Mexico. Guns are illegal so the elastic energy of bands is utilized more than here in the US. We built them off of 2x6 boards that would definitely kill about anything. I killed several 2000lb Brahma cross cattle down there with one. Would shoot groups better than a bow. Basically a slingcrossbow.
 
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