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Potatoflinger
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First off, If you don't like the idea of launching squirrels across the yard, you should just click the back button right now. I don't want to hear all of that nonsense about hurting squirrels, after all they are just rats with bushy tails. This contraption hasn't killed a squirrel yet, and most of the squirrels come back for more.
Alright, this is the squirrel launcher that I mentioned in the "I are a redneck" thread. It's a really simple contraption, and it also works quite well. The slingshot bands are made from 3/8" surgical tubing (about ten feet in length). The trigger is a gate latch which has a string tied to it. The string goes into the house through a window, so whenever I walk through the kitchen and I see a squirrel on the launch pad (the bricks) I can just pull the string from inside the house and he gets to go for a little ride
The supports that hold the front of the slingshot are just lengths of rebar with tennis balls on top for safety. (not the safety of the squirrels, the safety of my father when he's stumbling around the yard
) The launch pad is covered with cracked corn, which squirrels seem to love.
So far this year I have launched a total of 16 squirrels, but only 2 or 3 have made it over the fence into the neighbor's yard.
The best part about this is that one of my neighbors is one of those animal rights people, and the look on his face was priceless when he asked me what "that thing out in the yard was"
This is the whole launcher. You can see the trigger (string) that goes towards the house. The fence in the background is what I try to launch the squirrels over.
This is a closer look at the pouch of the slingshot and the trigger mechanism.
I will update this thread with a link to a youtube video once I get enough good launches on tape to make a halfway decent compilation.
Alright, this is the squirrel launcher that I mentioned in the "I are a redneck" thread. It's a really simple contraption, and it also works quite well. The slingshot bands are made from 3/8" surgical tubing (about ten feet in length). The trigger is a gate latch which has a string tied to it. The string goes into the house through a window, so whenever I walk through the kitchen and I see a squirrel on the launch pad (the bricks) I can just pull the string from inside the house and he gets to go for a little ride
The supports that hold the front of the slingshot are just lengths of rebar with tennis balls on top for safety. (not the safety of the squirrels, the safety of my father when he's stumbling around the yard) The launch pad is covered with cracked corn, which squirrels seem to love.So far this year I have launched a total of 16 squirrels, but only 2 or 3 have made it over the fence into the neighbor's yard.
The best part about this is that one of my neighbors is one of those animal rights people, and the look on his face was priceless when he asked me what "that thing out in the yard was"
This is the whole launcher. You can see the trigger (string) that goes towards the house. The fence in the background is what I try to launch the squirrels over.
This is a closer look at the pouch of the slingshot and the trigger mechanism.
I will update this thread with a link to a youtube video once I get enough good launches on tape to make a halfway decent compilation.
