b'CATAPULTSsophisticatedthanmostareabletocopy.Copies, aught not be called a true SPS. Perhaps Homage needs to be in their names?The key was the Guinness Book of Records, who ratifiedaworldrecordforSPSshooterMichael McClurein2013.ItwasThemostcanshitin one minute, set in Beijing, China, 2010, where Xu Qicheng hit ten. The record was broken by Michael McClure at the East Coast Slingshot Tournament in Alverton, Pennsylvania, on the 8th June 2013, and he shot thirteen. The same chap had won the previous 2012SummerNationalstournamentintheUSA. Suddenly, this was the frame to own and shoot and the trend burned hot on both sides of the Atlantic, withmanytopshotsadoptingitastheirgo-to tournament slingshot.Ever since then, though, Jim has had folks asking for an SPS to be made as a slingshot fit for flat band use. All these years later, Performance Catapults haveThe frames I just released the OTT flat band-suitable Bandoleronow shoot most and to our delight announced its launch on Slingshotaccurately withWorlds website. Jim has told us that the SPS is not a design to be altered so this new frame would be a new thing of itself.And that is Bandolero. Not just a wider set of tips but a whole new core with a narrower U and I can tell you that a small (but costly) delay was the first set of cores being rejected for not quite being perfect to specification. So we are honoured to say, meet the new OTT kid on the block.I fitted mine with a Pinch Pouch and SightRight card sight from Hitman Slingshots Las Vegas and just to be old school, 20mm tapered bands of carefully stored consistent old-formula Theraband Gold.Theproofwasintheshooting.Thechamferis perfect and the total hand comfort meant I could take advantage of my two helps. As a result, I can shootMine is lucky better with a Bandolero than anything else I now own.13 in Roman www.performancecatapults.com numeralsBandolero: the detail of form is exquisiteBANDOLERObandolero(bandlr)noun: a Spanish bandit.Bandolero is 82mm x 118mmGap is 40mm Tip is 20mm18mm thicknessPrices will start at $99.99 US and the first one hundred are numbered. 043SSW003.42-43.Performance Cattys.indd 43 05/09/2019 16:44'