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[smitty]

I got my Joerg Gloveshot in the mail today and it is amazing!!! I'm going to go outside and shoot it. More to come.  DSCN0580.JPG   24.59K   168 downloads

[wilbanba]

smitty, on 20 January 2010 - 03:40 PM, said:

I got my Joerg Gloveshot in the mail today and it is amazing!!! I'm going to go outside and shoot it. More to come. DSCN0580.JPG

nice! how did you get one? trade? i didn't think he sold his stuff. good work.

[smitty]

No, Joerg does not sell any slingshots, He made this one for me to shoot because I have a "deformed" left hand, from being crushed in a printing press, that hurts quite a bit when pulling back a regular slingshot. This one puts the stress of pulling the bands off my wrist and more on the forearm. He asked me if I wanted to try it, I said yes, so He sent it to me, no cost and the rest is history.

[AaronC]

Nice! I am jealous!

[pelleteer]

Hmmmm...I'd actually consider mangling a hand just to get one of those...

Congrats on the new slingy, smitty, and kudos to Joerg for his kindness in providing it for you.

[Jtslingshoter]

Very nice. JT

[shot in the foot]

Thats why i like this site, every one is nice and friendly and helpfull, thats a really nice thing to do of Joerg to take time out and make you that, i hope you have many hours shooting with your new slingshot, jeff

[smitty]

Yes it was VERY nice of Joerg to send me a gloveshot. I like it so much, it is right here by me as I type. It is so much lighter than I thought it would be from looking at pics of it. It killed me to have to go to work and not shoot it. I work a night shift on Wednesday, get home about four AM on Thursday, so I won't be shooting it until Thursday around noon. But I am off work until Friday night, so I should have plenty of time to learn how to hit something with it.
Slingshot people are good people... I call us the "International Slingshot Fellowship".

[mr.joel]

Can't wait to see a version with rollers!

[JoergS]

We form "The Fellowship of the Sling"...

Good to hear that you like the slingshot, Smitty. Let us know how it works for you.

Jörg

[Chuff]

JoergS, on 21 January 2010 - 12:32 PM, said:

We form "The Fellowship of the Sling"...

Good to hear that you like the slingshot, Smitty. Let us know how it works for you.

Jörg

Fellowship of the sling! Perfect
Perfect looking catty as well I might add.

[pelleteer]

JoergS, on 21 January 2010 - 12:32 PM, said:

We form "The Fellowship of the Sling"...

LOL!

"One Sling to rule them all, One Sling to find them,
One Sling to bring them all and in the darkness bind them..."

Your next project should be the One Sling, complete with elven runes.

[smitty]

Sounds like a challenge to me Joerg! ONE SLING TO RULE THEM ALL!

[mr.joel]

What ARE you guys smoking? Whatever it is, pass it it on over this way!

[pelleteer]

mr.joel, on 21 January 2010 - 02:29 PM, said:

What ARE you guys smoking? Whatever it is, pass it it on over this way!

Simple harmless Pipe Weed.

[mr.joel]

pelleteer, on 21 January 2010 - 02:47 PM, said:

mr.joel, on 21 January 2010 - 02:29 PM, said:

What ARE you guys smoking? Whatever it is, pass it it on over this way!

Simple harmless Pipe Weed.

Hey, that's what I told the judge, for some reason he didn't see it that way!

[Flatband]

I like that one" THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE SLING" perfect! That Slingshot should really help you Smitty. Really nice gesture Joerg! Flatband

[JoergS]

We don't smoke, we chew. Thin flat rubber bands. And we spit out heavy lead, at 300 feet per second!

And... the One Sling is what we search for, but it may take some more time until we find it.

Jörg

[mr.joel]

JoergS, on 21 January 2010 - 04:40 PM, said:

We don't smoke, we chew. Thin flat rubber bands. And we spit out heavy lead, at 300 feet per second!

And... the One Sling is what we search for, but it may take some more time until we find it.

Jörg

Speaking of which, are you going to put rollers on one, or is that for some reason a bad idea?

[Chuff]

JoergS, on 21 January 2010 - 04:40 PM, said:

We don't smoke, we chew. Thin flat rubber bands. And we spit out heavy lead, at 300 feet per second!

And... the One Sling is what we search for, but it may take some more time until we find it.

Jörg

Hey,
300 ftper second?

400 Here mate! speak for yourself

[JoergS]

mr.joel, on 21 January 2010 - 05:01 PM, said:

Speaking of which, are you going to put rollers on one, or is that for some reason a bad idea?

Well, I have received a couple of threats from (anonymous) people that said they were going to report me to the German authorities, because they think that the hand brace is comparable to a (banned) arm brace. I disagree, but my gloveshot thread has actually been deleted by the admins of one German forum for the same reason.

I am no coward, but I really don't need the cops to search my house, confiscating all my (legal) guns and slingshots. That is what they usually do, and it may take like three years before you get them back.

I realize that I have some enemies out there. So I have to be careful. I guess that I won't be making any more gloveshot designs ever, so Smitty's slingshot will remain a one-of-a-kind!

Jörg

[pelleteer]

That sucks! I'm really sorry to hear about this, Joerg. I guess some people really don't have anything better to do than cause grief for others. I hope no trouble comes your way because of this design. I don't see how the hand brace on the gloveshot could possibly be construed in any way as an arm brace, but you never know.

[mr.joel]

Wow, what a buncha nazis. How does the government justify taking your property for three years? You cannot sue them for unlawfully confiscating your property? They can say immediately whether the gloveshot is legal or not, why not ask them first?

[JoergS]

mr.joel, on 22 January 2010 - 03:19 AM, said:

Wow, what a buncha nazis. How does the government justify taking your property for three years? You cannot sue them for unlawfully confiscating your property? They can say immediately whether the gloveshot is legal or not, why not ask them first?

Well, the cops that carry out the search warrant would simply take everything that looks like a slingshot or weapon, then the prosecution would pass the stuff over to some expert, who would write an opinion. It would take at least 15 months before the prosecutor would decide if he wants to press charges, and if he does, then it would take another year until the first court hearing would happen. This whole time, all the consficated stuff would stay locked away in some evidence room.

Very often, prosecution would suggest a deal like "OK, we won't go to court if you let us destroy the confiscated stuff."

The question if the gloveshot is legal or not would have to be answered by a certified, acknowledged expert. No cop or judge would feel competetent to decide that.

So I decided to stop working on this otherwise very promising concept. My only version is safely in the US, out of reach by the German authorities.

Jörg

[mr.joel]

Who would be a certified acknowledged expert? Can you contact this person? It's not rocket science, either it is a wrist brace or it is not. Do you REALLY need an expert to determine this? For example, I don't need an expert to tell me what constitutes a shoe. The bureuacracy sounds Babylonian.

This is utterly ridiculous. I suppose next year testosterone will be banned as well. Perhaps we should all take up poetry reading and oragami, and stop playing with these destructive devices. Joerg you're a very, very bad boy. You are lucky they don't cart you off to the "shower room!"

If they arrest Joerg, I say we all go to Germany, burn the courthouse down, and dance around it like a buncha wild injuns!