Chinese SLINGSHOT RIFLE - 300+ fps. - A 'toy'?

 I watched a 'merican YouTube video review of a rubber band powered 'rifle'. Well it has a shoulder stock, foregrip & trigger, and what else are you going to call it? - I went on AliExpress to see what they had, and when I found one - I bought it. (nz$241.82 inc GST)

Link to that VIDEO from 1ShotTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vs6TCC9qxc

"A more dramatic effect on the ballistic dummy than a .22 LR."

'Ballistic Skulls' cost around US$150 - $300+ each

I calculate power at around 6.75 foot pounds of energy with a 32 grain 8mm s.s ball..

A 8mm lead ball weighs 46grain +-

This is around HALF the energy delivery of a quality Air Rifle

- a longbow ranges from 30 ft-lbs to 90 ft-lbs - A 40 grain .22 LR round 80 ft-lbs

Energy calculations are very velocity influenced. - if you doubled that 300ft per sec to 600ft-per-sec you'd almost quadruple the energy figure to 25.6 ft/lbs. (Double the mass and that only doubles the energy)..

However, an 8mm steel ball at 300 foot per second velocity is going 200 mph. - I don't want to be hit by anything that solid at 200mph ..

Now, this 'toy' will do damage by lethal blunt force trauma. Some testing reviews of black powder 'Turn-off-Barrel' Percussion Pocket Pistols with small powder chambers find velocities around 300-400 fps .. they did the job at contact ranges.

- I don't know how to correlate energy level with effective damage or 'knockdown power' or "killing power" for these impact/penetrations at lower velocities. How do you, for example, measure the effective power of a small sharp-pointed low-mass steel dart that penetrates from an air weapon?

Some folk say that an ancient Roman lead slingshot "is as powerful as a Forty-Four-Magnum" - well that's nonsense, but when a low energy weapon kills, would the target be MORE dead from an even heavier blow?

Roman lead sling bullet 'GLANDES' (acorns)

 

AI says: Muscle-powered weapons are tools that use human muscular energy for propulsion, and they can be categorized into direct-contact and projectile types. Examples include swords, axes, and knives for close combat, and bows, slings, and spears, which have been used throughout history. 

Enhanced Version Slingshot Hunting Powerful Catapult Mechanical Slingshot Rifle Portable Stretch Outdoor Distance Shooting Toy 7 sold. (8 now) - I'm always up for a laugh eh ..

Thinking ahead a bit - I also searched AliExpress for steel balls to use as ammo, and ordered 200x 8mm s.s balls (nz$38.14) = 20 cents each but reusable if you catch them ..

Nine days after ordering, the first small square package from Wang Peng, China landed on my doorstep - discreetly labelled as "Bicycle Parts".

The first bits of a new adventure-puzzle - Unwrapped ..

The Second WangPen Package ..

The Third Package ..

I'm not showing the yards of 'Clingwrap' that was wound around all these parts or the securely taped plastic 'bubblewrap', that was all a right pain in the butt to strip off .. Nor am I showing the instruction sheets for assembly - as there were NO instructions.

Never mind eh .. I can do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ9ff9cr8oU

This links to a short assembly-guide video for Falcon GT slingshot: 

Putting it together was easy, except neither of the two spare scope-sights I have is suitable so I've gone sightless in this pic ..

The Tranter .44" is there for scale. This Falcon Hunting Slingshot is all CNC machined metal apart from the elastics - and very well made for a "toy".

The new Red/Green Dot sight with side-mounted Laser was affordable @ nz$36.50  - but it was a bit slow to arrive from China, taking 17 days to my front door.

AliExpress deserve a brief plug following more successful deliveries all the way down here to NZ .. in that mostly I have had great service and good value - of multiple purchases from China over recent years - only one item went missing and one wasn't what I thought I had ordered .. out of 100's of purchases of clothing, tools, appliances, watches, and all sorts of stuff. - THEY ARE GOOD.

Right - DOWN TO BUSINESS ..

I "fired" the slingshot into my old red Ballistic Plasticine modeling clay, with the least powerful 'two-tubes' rubber and was truly impressed ..

PENETRATION of the first 8mm steel ball was about 34mm - I located my old test image from 2021 of a Winchester 555 .22 LR that penetrated around 70mm after nicely expanding to 11mm.

My second penetration test made a wound channel of 40mm long. -There is zero scientific basis to equate these results .. but the slingshot ball with a tenth of the kinetic energy of a two-two appears to demonsrate more than half of that .22" penetration.

My guess is that equates to penetration in ballistic gel of around three to four inches plus ..

Do not shoot this slingshot at anything you do not want to destroy.

Link to that earlier story: https://flicense.blogspot.com/2021/07/plasticine-goes-ballistic-down-under.html

- Might a heavier lead projectile be more 'powerful'? - Take a look at this .. The shiny steel 8mm ball penetrated 5mm less than a 32cal (8mm) lead ball.

46grain lead versus 32gn steel. Same Size.

This Wang Peng Slingshot is great - it works - is accurate - is quiet - is fun - and is plenty powerful. - what more could you ask for? - Got a possum issue?

The new 850 kW Porsche Cayenne E car-toy costs more than $220,000 .. this is cheap fun for a 1,000 times less - I like WangPeng outside in the garden ..

Life is great,

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- how many Police Commissioners have retired/resigned now?

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A Historic Tranter 54 Bore, .45" Percussion Revolver:

I enjoy GUNS (and knives too) - using them and working on them - maybe I'm a sick unit, but - like the Government Military, Police, and the autonamous civil wild harvesters & pest controllers, - I understand and value these tools - their utility, beauty and craftmanship.

Currently I'm a bit focused on old English made revolvers and pocket pistols. I have some quality items from Birmingham, and plenty of crap. - Some folk will say that I am crazy-stupid to waste money on antique obsolete sidearms.

They may well be right .. But I have only a few months revenue worth of cash dollars in the bank earning at 1.5% interest, - while NZ inflation is running at 3%+ - that means my "savings" are losing value steadily while antique guns are happily rising in value and could also be employed for the same purpose that they had when made 170+ years ago.

If I were a rich man, Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum. If indeed I was rich - with an investment portfolio - I would have been buying gold coin for the last several years as the metal's price rose through US$2,000 per ounce and up on it's way skyward towards ever greater heights .. It's not that the gold price has truly DOUBLED - but that your dollars have halved in value under our banker's careful direction.

- but antique guns will have to suffice.

I bought this Maori Wars 54 Gauge TRANTER Percussion Revolver (.442" calibre)

This, - my latest - 1860ish double action 5 shot Tranter 4th Model percussion revolver has Colonial Government service history, as demonstrated by the Taranaki Provincial Government Colonial Storekeepers issue number 331 stamped on the barrel and grip (see images). It is hard to come across revolvers with provenance from the Maori Wars, as many were private purchases. Without documentation they remain, just possibly used during the Wars. This service revolver is not in that category. When these wars ended in 1872 cartridge revolvers were becoming available.

The conflict in Taranaki resulted in the passing of the Colonial Defence Act on the 15th of September 1862, and the formation of the Colonial Defence Force, the first regular force in New Zealand, with detachments throughout the country.

The non-Māori, Pakeha population is said to have exceeded that of Māori in 1858.

Tranter 4th Model double action 54 bore Percussion Revolver, 5 3/4in barrel. Top strap engraved “J. PURDEY, OXFORD STREET, LONDON”. Frame No. 14132 T. Oval Cartouche on Frame and loading lever – Store keepers No 331 on barrel and wooden butt. Dated to around 1855/56. The 4th Model Tranter was not a common revolver in New Zealand service, with the Adams being more frequently encountered . It is a early 4th Model with the early safety catch, on the right side of the frame in the form of a flat hook which when pushed forward engages in a hole drilled in each nipple divider . it also has the early “S” – shaped cylinder spring arbor – catch. A quality Purdey issue revolver is unusual. - This is a five shot .442 inch caliber percussion revolver retaining some original finish - fully operational, but the foresight has some damage.

So it has HISTORIC NZ PROVENANCE plus the 'PURDEY' name.

That is valuable both culturally and wealthwise.

M1853 Tranter is da/sa

an antique revolver fitted with a SAFETY

Link to a history of New Zealand COLONIAL STOREKEEPERS:

https://rnzaoc.com/2018/04/02/colonial-storekeeper-1840-1871/#:~:text=The%20role%20of%20the%20Colonial,of%20Imperial%20troops%20in%201870.

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MAC-10

 No, not the bloody computer .. The Machine Pistol.

Don't pretend that you are so righteous as to not be interested in these - as they've been in so many MOVIES and video games that obviously they fascinate someone ..

The MAC10 dates back to 1964 being a blowback operated machine pistol originally firing at a high rate from an open-bolt, but a second version was redesigned to 'closed bolt' function. - It was made in .45"ACP, 9x19mm, and .380" ACP. - There are even later modifications that use .22" LR rimfire cartridges.

They work brilliantly in the movies as the villains fire thousands of flame spewing rounds chewing explosive concrete chips from highrise buildings while the hero dodges each and every shot long enough for GOOD to conquer EVIL.

I heard that if you managed to score a hit at 25 yards they gave you a Cadillac

In real life they are cheaply built from folded metal stampings and are rubbish to use beyond the stretch of your living room couch - being "fit only for combat in a phone booth". 

RUBBISH - but they look really ugly eh.

Now That's REALLY OLD ..

These did see some military service in VietNam. The Military Armament Corporation Model-10 works much better when fitted with a SIONICS suppresser - as that can be used as a forward grip to control muzzle rise.

Pistol Caliber Full Auto fire from handheld submachine guns is much over-rated by the ignorant.

A team operated HEAVY MACHINE GUN is a very different kettle of military fish.

Life is Bloody Brilliant,

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from the top .. naah

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CAHILL Stands Down From Police Association: A=B=C

High profile Police Association President CHRIS CAHILL has stood down from that position after nine years. His replacement is Senior Sergeant Steve Watt from Otago.

Detective Inspector Cahill - who will be taking long service leave from his police duties - will naturally be missed by New Zealand Fit & Proper Licensed Firearms Owners - for his creative and imaginative statements about firearms use in New Zealand.

I am sure we all wish Cahill career development within NZ criminal activities and golfing.

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.. Comminuted & emulsified meat products such as sausages are full of crap plastic 'casings', preservative chemicals, rusk, salt, fat, gristle, dead animal parts, and bacteria, - apart from that they're great.

Sell the Sizzle not the Steak

Advertizing equals Brainwashing equals Conditioning

"Have you ever seen the magic glasses that help you see better without glasses? - If you don't buy them now they won't be available again .."

'They' are messing with our heads. - Every 10 minutes or so on TV they feed us 5 minutes of Bullshit advertizing and Lies. -You get used to it, - and turn-off your critical judgement .. BUT this repetition-repetition-repetition works like an earworm into your subconscious mind and your head accepts the lies as real.

"Ukraine is starting the great spring assault 

- The Russians are beaten 

- The Russians have a million dead .. "

- There are no Epstein files .. "

Psychologists have a word for this phenomenon: projection – the process by which someone displaces their own negative traits or insecurities onto someone else. QUESTION: Who primarily benefits from war? Soldiers, laborers, and civilians usually face more hardships and losses. Leaders gain the most in terms of power and resources. War primarily benefits leaders. Leaders may use war to rally their population's support, distract from economic issues, and amplify their own power and status.

The leaders hope that you will barely notice it when later they flip the message ..

June 1998: NZ Energy Minister Bradford said the Government's electricity reforms are all about lower power prices for all consumers, not protecting the vested interests of power companies.

Have you forgotten that? - So far my electricity bill has TREBLED under this "reform" privatization ..

PERFECTION may be True .. You Reckon?

That repetition is exactly how 'Positive Re-enforcement' works .. You keep telling a kid that they are a good gymnast and they may well get better. Write your life's desire down on a piece of paper twenty times and read it twice a day and guess what happens .. your life begins naturally to progress in that direction ..

- I am good with money. - I am good with money. - I am good with money. - I am good with money. - I am good with money. - I am good with money. - I am good with money. - I am good with money.- I am good with money. - I am good with money.- I am good with money. - I am good with money.- I am good with money. - I am good with money, - I am good with money. - I am good with money.

The message gets in. "The National Party are Better Managers for Your Country" over & over & over. 

Our struggle for better lives for our families is not LEFT versus RIGHT - It should be how to stop the top 10 percent thieves taking any more of our natural assets and wealth into their hands.

Why is our country NZ a member of the  '5 Eyes' military intelligence group that is being used to support Israel slaughtering Palestinians - when we should join BRICS ? - Why is our NZ SAS working with the British SAS in Ukraine?

Have you worked-out WHY they want us to be unarmed citizens?

This Commercial TV repetition and our psychological acceptance of tall stories also does something else - It gets us used to hearing implausible narratives without protest.

You KNOW when a politician is talking bollocks .. but that's what they all do - Right?

Public Relations Depts. Campaign Managers. Think Tanks. Media Consultants. PROPAGANDA. Spin Doctors. Cherry Picking. Double Speak & Dog Whistle, plus old fashioned Advertising ..

- All these techniques and tools are being used to make you change your mind and what you think.

This is what lawful shooters and gun owners are up against.

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Lightweight Titanium Camp Stove - or ..

Note: NO artificial intelligence and very little natural intelligence was employed in writing the following superb screed ..

Bloody excellent camp gear - BUY ONE eh .... Why not buy two?

https://wildsideadventures.eu/products/camping-stove

Good stuff if you've got a couple of hundred dollars spare - just the 30ml alcohol Spirit Burner alone, with ceramic wool wick and mesh has to be a life saver

However - If you are an aged pauper with time available - you can do better by repurposing an empty percussion-cap tin, some ceramic wool or a little aluminium foil, and a baked bean tin. - Harvested rabbit meat or possum needs to be cooked for most of us.

a/- You can buy 96 pieces of ceramic wool on trademe nz for around $45.00 inc. p&p.

OR you might buy exactly the same ceramic wool wicking from AliExpress in China for $22 - HALF that PRICE. - Suite Yourself eh.

Shown are the 'HIGH CAPACITY' Model SPIRIT LAMP - each having multiple ceramic wicks

b/- You put the ceramic wool wick into the (empty) cap-tin

c/- You pour some alcohol (methylated spirits) into the woolly-wick

d/- You put your clean emptied baked bean can open at both ends over the lit spirit burner that you made

e/- You place your saucepan of $1 baked beans on top of the cylindrical baked-bean-can-chimney/wind guard

f/- You take a leak while waiting -  and then EAT your protein rich, MRE, Cordon Bleu sauced, health filled legumes

- Just What The Doctor Ordered ..

My old Irish dad used to tell me "Even a monkey can imitate."

- Imitate Trump: You could sell the remaining 95 ceramic wicks as special emergency ceramic spirit burners to your mates & family for $20 bucks each and invest the cash in gold. - Never give a sucker an even break.

You don't really even need the ceramic wick .. you could put crumpled old aluminum foil (or a pinch of dry sand or soil) in the small tin to mate with the spirits - Where there's a will there's a way eh. You don't need the cap-tin - as you could find or make a small burner cup out of folded aluminum foil, like origami - or a used muffin cup.

- You DO need the alcohol fuel and a lighter.

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Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER PERSONS'?

naah

In the interest of Public Safety

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Marty K.

 

 

Govt. Underground Nuclear Refuges:

Hands up anyone who's heard of 'The Maillard reaction' and the 'Strecker Degradation' .. no? - Well I've been roasting PNG green Robusta coffee beans in my cast-iron skillet again, at a lower temperature - with improved finesse for the educated palate. "First Crack". 

- MY roast demonstrates artistry, balance, chemistry, development, earthly grounding, finess, & gravitational weak forces. ABCDEFG

Over there, over there, (by George M Cohen)

Send the word, send the word over there

That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware –
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And We won't come back till it's over, over there.

Your custom is important to us. - Three U S shelters are known .. 

Raven Rock Mountain Complex (Site R)

The Underground Pentagon

Cheyenne Mountain Complex- 

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Washington DC Civilian Officials

The Greenbrier Bunker: 

Nuclear refuge for all 535 Members of Congress. Other secure locations are believed to exist in underground, hardened facilities to protect against attack. Their exact locations and contents are not publicly disclosed.

Such facilities while paid for by TAXPAYERS are not open for use by taxpayers.

I think that for any underground bunker to survive a targeted direct hit from a fullsized nuclear warhead would need it to be very hardened and very deep underground with remoted entrances beyond the blast radius. This would surely mean distant escape exit tunnels perhaps 50 miles long that were not also targeted? A MIRV multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle carries up to 12 warheads.

Anyone the U S administration considers to be "at the top of the food chain" and worth saving (plus approved journalists) will receive advance notice to helicopter-out and march into the nearest prepared mountain.

Raven Rock: It is 'rumored' that there may not have been an explosion here in 1990 

- It has been 'mothballed' but updated.

- There naturally are secret nuclear shelters in Great Britain, for those who matter ..

The UK Nuclear Information Service describes 110 accidents, near misses, and dangerous occurrences that have occurred over the 75 year history of the UK's nuclear weapons programme, comprising of: 14 serious accidents related to the production and manufacturing of nuclear weapons and 145 tonnes of plutonium stored at Sellafield - including fires, fatal explosions, and floods up to22 Feb 2017 - which they got away with, without destroying the population so naturally 

we don't need to worry about the effects of any NUCLEAR WAR.

- Flicking back to U S - This linked video 'Underground City'report about NUCLEAR BUNKERS just 'popped up' after I wrote this piece and I'm not 

at all sure about it's content - there seems to be a lot of AI generated crap ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4jjDPVNPTM

There are indeed PRIVATELY OWNED refuge bunker properties scattered around New Zealand for elites to scurry into after landing from their private jets ..

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naah

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Are you interested in Tucker Carlson's CHRISTIAN views on NUKES?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpQop5vPm24&t=7s

Kiwi Coffee: Maori-War Museum Assets: Warriors.

Anyone else around here dumb enough like me to try home roasting GREEN COFFEE BEANS ? - I used my cast iron skillet and I think I had it  too hot, as the PNG beans went straight from green to burnt on the bottom while still raw on top before I got the idea of shaking & stirring them. - "First Crack" my ass. Smokey?

- Forget Light, Medium, & Dark Roast 

.. try BURNT-GREEN-SMOKED.. QUITE GOOD actually. I'll try again in the Air Fryer.

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SAFETY ALERT: Rule No.1. Treat every firearm as loaded until YOU check it is safe.

The longer you look at something - the clearer the situation may become. - When researching stuff - scatterings of information can arrive that add greatly to the story .. (I was looking for authentic leather holster designs).

"Hemi Te Waka, aka Taranaki Jim, or Big Jim, was of both Te Atiawa and Pakeha descent. Te Waka had been a Kingite warrior in 1860 and by 1864 he was a scout for the 57th Regiment. It was he who, in April that year, discovered the decapitated corpses of Captain Lloyd and his men ambushed at Te Ahuahu, precipitating the Paimarire War and a further eight years of bloodshed."

This is the actual engraved antique revolver ..

Deane & Adams 54 Gauge Percussion Revolver.

Museum  people know little about guns. They describe this revolver as having a "Wedge Frame" .. show me the wedge. **WRONG: This is indeed a 'wedge framed' revolver. The small wedge is not visible in this photo. Oops.

"From 1865 the revolver accompanied Te Waka on active service until he fell in a Tuhoe ambush in May 1869. There in Te Urewera he was buried, the pistol and other effects being removed from his body. The revolver, pistol-belt and holster were later obtained by the NZ Veterans Association, and in 1919 they were donated to the New Plymouth Museum—now Puke Ariki & District Libraries. On the inside flap of the holster is the barely legible “HEMI TE WAKA” written in Indian ink."

Seventy-one years after Te Waka was gunned down, a young firearms enthusiast in New Plymouth was handling the weapon, fumbled, and was shot through the head. He earned the dubious distinction of being the last casualty of the New Zealand Wars - as the charge, wad and bullet—rammed home by Hemi Te Waka himself all those years ago—had never been unloaded.

Years back, in May 2017 I found a different side to this story in a book ..

https://flicense.blogspot.com/2017/05/deane-adams-percussion-revolver-nz.html

- NZ Police Arms & Ballistics Officer G G Kelly writes in Chapter 12 of his book 'THE GUN IN THE CASE'  about a Deane & Adams Revolver taken from a museum exhibit seventy-five years after the Maori Wars in Taranaki - The revolver had sat in storage for decades with two chambers loaded .. until a sixteen year old boy experimating with mixed percussion caps in an attic, after nicking the gun, set-off the old powder & the heavily oxidized lead bullet with unintended but deadly impact into his own temple. - Two loaded chambers had remained "live" in the cylinder perhaps for as long as 75 years.

THIS HAS TO BE THE SAME REVOLVER. -Linked here:

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/loaded-provenance/

It seems that this curious teenage bright lad (unnamed) used to hang about and help at this museum and found the revolver in storage out the back - deciding that the old gun would be more interesting when placed in his own pocket.

His body was found at home in the attic space with a scattering of mixed percussion caps and a hole in his head.

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'Bitter and bloody struggles.' in New Zealand history ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranaki_Jim

https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/584/revolver-five-chambered

https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/7874/holster-revolver

Detailed bush warfare stories -drying human heads, - inc. the death of Hemi Te Waka ..

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/corps-of-guides/

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Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER PERSONS'?

yeah naah

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Marty K.