Patent ID: 7509952

Claim:
A paintball holding pocket for a slingshot having a handle with spaced upwardly and outwardly extending arms and elastomeric draw straps interconnecting the pocket and the arms, the pocket comprising in combination: a flexible pocket strap having a first elongate end portion, an opposing second elongate end portion, a top edge, a bottom edge, a front face, a back face and defining a draw strap fastening hole in each elongate end portion to operatively interconnect with one elastomeric draw strap; a paintball cavity defined in a medial portion of the pocket strap by four rectilinear arrayed tear stop holes and two intersecting through cuts, each through cut extending angularly between one upper tear stop hole and one laterally opposing lower tear stop hole forming two horizontally opposed triangular flaps and two vertically opposed triangular flaps, the paintball cavity having a diameter that positionally maintains a spherical paintball within the paintball cavity with friction between the triangular flaps and the circumferential surface of the paintball and readily releases the paintball from the paintball cavity when the sling shot is fired; and a pocket handle fastened to the back face of the pocket strap, the pocket handle having a horizontal loop with a gripping portion and two opposed strap connecting ends, each strap connecting end fastened to the back face of the pocket strap adjacent a horizontally opposed triangular flap, and a vertical loop having a gripping portion and two opposed strap connecting ends, each strap connecting end fastened to the back face of the pocket strap adjacent a vertically opposed triangular flap, the gripping portions of the horizontal loop and the vertical loop wrapped circumferentially with thread forming the pocket handle adjacent rearward the paintball cavity.