Talk:Slingshot

message: I have also seen a type a slingshot which was made like a crossbow with a long boom. I saw this on a picture taken by Guido Sterkendries. Might have been with pygmy population, not exactly sure.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.244.192.17 (talk) 14:56, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crossbow-slingshot 

message: At the end there's a reference to a website, which looks a lot like an advertorial and hasn't anything to do with the history, accept that they exist since 1954....  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.95.101.38 (talk) 15:26, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  reference is ad 

message: My understanding is that this device is a 'slingshot' in North America but universally a 'catapault' in the UK. Unless someone thinks I'm wrong we should probably make that explicit. DJ Clayworth (talk) 19:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I'm British, and it's never called a slingshot here, to the extent that I wasn't sure what "slingshot" meant when I first encountered it with this meaning. "Catapult" and nothing else in the UK. 86.154.9.177 (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Oxford English Dictionary defines the slingshot in the way it is described here (and not as a US word), so it is certainly called a slingshot here in Britain, even if not by you.  However the OED does also list in its definition of catapult that, as well as the primary examples of such devices, it is also used (chiefly Brit.) instead of slingshot, so Okay, I'll take out the word "incorrectly". 86.9.117.51 (talk) 23:39, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: Slingshots are not confined to hand-held y-shaped weapons. Larger versions, which consist just of the elastics and pouch exist to be held by a person at each end, with a third person launching, or else tied to two stationary objects (poles, etc.) These are also slingshots, are they not? Or do they have their own term? The article shouldn't limit to only small handheld Y-shaped ones TheHYPO (talk) 05:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Larger? 

message: Russian word "rogatina" (рогатина) is a name for a heavy spear with a very strong shaft (pole) used against horses in mediaeval warfare and for hunting purposes, mostly to hunt bears, up to the twentieth century. Such a weapon usually had some crossing below the head to avoid the hit animal sliding closer to hunter and being able to damage him. See appropriate article in Russian section of Wikipedia (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0). Check the sources of the article once more, please.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.113.122.85 (talk) 20:17, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actualy, you misunderstood the whole case. What was written in the book that in Russia the Rogatina was the ancient father og Rogatka, which is true because when the Rogatka was invented in Russia it used the idea of Rogatina. And that whole paragraph is from that book! Kostan1 (talk) 14:55, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible error in this article 

message: Ancient artillery looks like a school project or something and overlaps considerably with this article. Any thoughts? PDCook (talk) 15:32, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I nominated Ancient artillery for AfD. PDCook (talk) 22:50, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[ancient artillery]] to this article 

message: It is odd that the article seems to have been previously written with complete disregard for the fact that in many places catapult is the primary term, not slingshot. I have made a small addition to the article that reflects this usage, as previously no acknowledgment was given to its alternate name, which is frankly rather arrogant when it is undeniably the most used term in places such as Britain, where I live.
Also, I feel that a section regarding the legality of catapults is necessary; it is unclear to many people what the law is, and an addition stating whether or not they are classed as weapons in various jurisdictions couldn't go amiss. Liamoliver (talk) 02:16, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The name issue is dealt with in the lede to the article and discussed above. DIscussing the legality would become rather lengthy and complex, as this varies with jurisdiction as well as the exact type of device, and probably changes over time. Wschart (talk) 17:07, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

text: I think legality might be doable.  If you check the page Blowgun they have a fairly simple layout we might be able to use.  It would probably be a bit more lengthy than that but it seems like important information.  I'll look into a central source and how convoluted the laws are.Bcasaund (talk) 19:29, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and legality 

message: I removed everything that was not referenced (which was almost everything) and rewrote the article with references.  Almost everything got worked into the "History" section, which goes back to the earliest reference I could find (1860) and covers many construction elements that evolved over time.  I think a section on legality would be good; it wouldn't have to cover every jurisdiction, it would just have to note that slingshots are regulated, and give various examples (they cannot be shipped to a number of US states, other states and a number of countries outlaw only wrist-braced models, etc.).  I'd also like to have a section on the dangers of slingshots, such as snapping bands, broken forks, and that system that Daisy recently recalled due to band failure injuries.  scot (talk) 20:13, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: Article states: The other ends of the strips lead back to a pocket which holds the projectile. The pocket is grasped by the dominant hand and drawn back to the desired extent to provide power for the projectile.
.seems to me that most people do it the other way. Experts would maybe hold the projectile in the hand on the side of the dominant eye, I don't know, but people shooting for the first time, in my experience, hold the weapon, not the projectile, in the dominant hand.84.197.180.127 (talk) 08:17, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dominant hand, holding the projectile or the weapon??