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Pheonix
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so I tried to make my first slingshot today and failed miserably. I used pecan wood for the handle witch is a very hard wood. I used a mountain bike inner tube and cut it in half and tied it to the wood. well the rock didn't go very far and I couldn't get very much pullback the tube wasn't very stretchy but it was very old. the SAS survival book says a bike inner tube works very well so why didn't it work for me. I'm thinking either the tube was to short and I should use the whole tube or maybe the tube is to old and maybe I should boil it in some water (don't know if that will help) any ideas you can give will help. I have lots of old inner tubes to experiment with.