When we were kids we made our own sling shots. We cut the Y out of a branch on the tree. We would use red rubber inner tubes to cut the straps and we would take the leather tongue out of an old shoes for the pocket. At this time during the second world war, synthetic rubber tubes were coming out, but they wouldn't stretch so we had to find real rubber tubes.
We would select rocks or steel ball barrings for our ammunition. We also made rubber guns and we would stretch the rubber tubes from the front of the gun to the clothes pin on the back. When you let the clothes pin open, the rubber strap would shoot forward and hit the other guy. You weren't supposed to shoot anyone in the head, but sometimes it happened and it really hurt.
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