Bushing To Cattys?

[Truther 1,579]

I'm impressed truther! :-)....do you always use the same style catty & bands/tubes etc with the lead shot?

 

I just use a Milbro mate, soft square elastic, or single 4070 tube, mostly the tube these days, i don't think it matters what you use if you get on with it, and it does the job.

[Accip74 7,112]

 

I'm impressed truther! :-)....do you always use the same style catty & bands/tubes etc with the lead shot?

 

I just use a Milbro mate, soft square elastic, or single 4070 tube, mostly the tube these days, i don't think it matters what you use if you get on with it, and it does the job.

Ok mate.....I've been messing about with a catty for a year or so now & I got a terrier knocking about here as well, so who knows...maybe I'll give it a go one day :-). You sound like an 'old hand' at that game, so I'm interested in any trade secrets....;-)

[threelander 81]

hi truther sounds like you got this off to a tee mate.i would like to ask you about your catty as i,m just getting back into it.i.m gonna be ueing the old milbro frame and i,m a bit old fashioned and like my square elastics maybe because thats all i have ever used.i,v found that the 6mm and 5.5mm is a bit too much so i,v plumped for a 4.5mm elastic which i think will do the job ok.what size square do you use and what size tubes ??.

cheers Richard

[krawnden 1,036]

threelander, I'm no expert on catties (far from it ) but there are some serious experts on the Catapult & Slingshot Hunting section on here. Get in there and ask away and you'll be up to your eyes in technical band mumbo-jumbo before you can say "Through the forks"

[lurcherman 887 13,099]

I bought catty cupple weeks ago. Never used one had a couple goes and never again lol one flung back and hit me thump fcuk me it hurt. Got all in a fluster and slung the f****r right up in a tree

[Neal 1,866]

I find that mine are more interested in squirrels these days than rabbits...though that may simply be because we see a lot more of them. I think that, to a certain extent, it's aided by the fact that they seem more "annoyed" at squirrels than rabbits. It's as though they think that a rabbit going underground is perfectly acceptable whereas a squirrel using a tree is being sneaky, underhand and downright devious.

 

I only started using a catapult at the tail end of last year but the pup picked it up really quickly and where he'd previously zoom off into woodland looking for squirrels here, there and everywhere he soon realised that, when I had the catapult, he should wait by each tree and if he notices me taking aim at anything he invariably sits down. Now all I need to do is hit one as accurately as I can with a tin can bottom...but the little b*gg*rs keep moving!

Edited May 6, 2015 by Neal

[forest of dean redneck 11,589]

I bought catty cupple weeks ago. Never used one had a couple goes and never again lol one flung back and hit me thump fcuk me it hurt. Got all in a fluster and slung the f****r right up in a tree

lol I had a black widow band snap,years ago,and ended up punching myself in the face.

[Neal 1,866]

I've found that the best way to avoid a whack on the thumb is to be counter-intuitive i.e. your brain tells you to move your hand further away from the business end but doing the opposite works better.

[lurcherman 887 13,099]

 

I bought catty cupple weeks ago. Never used one had a couple goes and never again lol one flung back and hit me thump fcuk me it hurt. Got all in a fluster and slung the f****r right up in a tree

lol I had a black widow band snap,years ago,and ended up punching myself in the face.

 

Lmao

[Truther 1,579]

 

 

I'm impressed truther! :-)....do you always use the same style catty & bands/tubes etc with the lead shot?

I just use a Milbro mate, soft square elastic, or single 4070 tube, mostly the tube these days, i don't think it matters what you use if you get on with it, and it does the job.

Ok mate.....I've been messing about with a catty for a year or so now & I got a terrier knocking about here as well, so who knows...maybe I'll give it a go one day :-). You sound like an 'old hand' at that game, so I'm interested in any trade secrets....;-)

 

 

A reliable set up that you shoot well with, for me that's enough power to kill cleanly/smash through brambles/twigs, you'll be doing a lot of hedge trimming on squirrels/rabbits/pigeons, light ammo just deflects to easy, no matter how fast its travelling imo. Use your knowledge of the animals your'e hunting to get better chances, rather than trying long shots is the way forward. A good dog helps no end, iv'e got two, but both know the game after the time iv'e put in on them, but one good steady dog is probably better, iv'e got a mongrel lurcher, and the bitch is a whippet x spaniel we bred on purpose for bushing/catty hunting, i reckon a whippet lab x would be the ideal type, bit steadier than a spaniel x, a mate had an outstanding whippet x lab, did everything, best mooching dog iv'e ever seen. And confidence, put the effort in and its surprising how well you can do....bloody addictive tbh lol.

[Truther 1,579]

hi truther sounds like you got this off to a tee mate.i would like to ask you about your catty as i,m just getting back into it.i.m gonna be ueing the old milbro frame and i,m a bit old fashioned and like my square elastics maybe because thats all i have ever used.i,v found that the 6mm and 5.5mm is a bit too much so i,v plumped for a 4.5mm elastic which i think will do the job ok.what size square do you use and what size tubes ??.

cheers Richard

 

I grew up on the Milbro frame, never had anything else, shoot it the way it was designed using my thumb, but i cast my own stronger/shorter forked version in aluminium, its unbreakable really, you can only lose it, the originals can break with a good fork hit, or trying to straighten them after a good fork hit, if i have a hit on my original i warm it up before straightening it. I cant get the old original 1/4" black we used to use years back, which is nearer 5mm square than 6mm, i rate the neo square 6mm as user friendly, but i used the 7mm Red Kite brand neo for ages, only problem is its "extruded" so you get the odd twists in it, and the abrasion resistance ain't great, not running through holes in a Milbro anyway, no problem on tabs though.

 

Iv'e used the 4.5mm square on cattys for my grandson, not the 4.5mm neo though, some gear more like the old stuff, i liked it tbh, but to be efficient for hunting, i'd say its a 10mm lead ball limit (.390's the closest) anything bigger and its under gunned on power imo. Its about matching ammo weight to elastic strength at the end of the day, when it comes to square/tubes that is, to light an ammo for the given bands causes bad accuracy/ fliers, and handslap, to heavy and its slo-mo, matching the ammo weight/band strength is important mate.

 

I'm on the Dankung 4070 tubes, easy draw and decent power, cheap as chips bought direct, better abrasion resistance than the neo as well.

[threelander 81]

when you say you get the Dankung 4070 tubes direct how do i go about sourcing some myself Truther ??

[Truther 1,579]

Dankung.com mate, they sell direct, it just takes a few weeks to come from China, works out at about 50p a meter when you buy 10m. A mate gets mine, im crap at that sort of thing, so ask in the catty section on here and they'll know the ins and outs.

[jcm 2,327]

My terrier tryes to hang off my catty when I get it out and tbh I have tryed to shoot loads of birds but only shot two woodys