Yes! Perfect. Something like this is more my groove. Ususally when I fish it is not a party. I prefer the quiet solitude or perhaps a similar companion or two. A slingbow would not take up room or cost $500. I could even make one if I wanted. I like making stuff. This seemed simple and more natural than flashy compound bows (which would be overkill) and noisy boats. I used to shoot my father’s longbow when I was young and was decent with a slingshot. Seemed like a good fit. I could have it with me fishing if I needed it or could spend a day on the piers and docks or stalking and inlet bay. I had found the next piece. So kept looking.
I found all kinds of slingbows. From this industrial looking steel one to ones modified from store bought slingshots to those completley homemade from PVC.
I was very impressed with this boy. I was thinking how far away from this kind of knowledge our culture is. Cell phones and apps and artificial life is better understood and accepted than that of the Natural. Basic skills like growing and harvesting Nature’s bounty is foreign to most. It seems barbaric at worst, or quaint at best many times. Yet we eat and consume with no consciousness of our connection to the Creator’s world. Most of us let the “system” do our growing and killing for us and we reap our genetically modified harvests packaged in cellophane. Well anyway, I was on the path of a slingbow and had two types of choices. One being a commercially manufactured steel thing that would cost $200 +/- to purchace and set up. The other end would be one i could make cheaply and would most likely function well for my needs. But I kept looking . . .
Those were kind of hard to watch. I’m a catch and release kind of gal. There’s no releasing those poor babies when you catch ’em. But I’m guessing you eat about everything you catch, right?
Yes. That’s part of the reason I didn’t like the loud boats a lots of people. That seems like killing for killings sake. I don’t like to waste fish. I enjoy the sport but it is related to the table.
Yes, you’re right. The way some of the guys were whoopin’ and hollerin’ on a couple of these videos made me think of listening to Brandon play video games and killing something or other. I’ve always hated that mindset. Drollery will keep some now and then to cook as well. But only as many as he knows he will eat. That’s the way God intended it, I figure.
Yes mam 🙂