b'RUBBERFRAME FIXINGSSome brave and hardy souls shoot frameless with a big rubber band. The rest of us have to fi x our bandsets to our frames, somehowI to the fork tip. These have a separate part held on by Allen headed n China they have Hai style competitions for frameless slingshot shooting. As well as special pouches, there are rings you wear onbolts to grip the band or use a small square clip to attach elastic to a a finger of the hand you are using instead of a frame to help keepUniphoxx frame instead of wrap-and-tuck.hold of the rubber. There are also new plug systems to fix tubes and flats to frames.For every actual slingshot, there is a band to suit it and a way to fix itTapered rubbery cones to just squidge into a round hole with a to the frame. In my youth we had the wooden collets or semi-circularflat band to secure it are simple but e ective for flats, seen here on a wooden inserts that pinched the elastic into the holes of a Milbro andHirdhawks Designs HH2M frame. A bit like SimpleShots proprietary the DeadShot had a short strip of leather that was used to bind to theOcularis system but primitive. Then WASP created specially shaped stretched square elastic with waxed thread. Thats the main methodplugstoenablespeedshootingskinnytubesets(thattheyalso used today by David Brazil on his classics. supply) to be fitted to a Uniphoxx with ease. The shiny round domed The commonest method is of course wrap-and-tuck. Many people use a strip of the band set elastic as a tie wrap for this but newer amber belt and several other colours of a sticky stretchy polymer ribbon exist that do the job better. There are a few wrap-and-tuck pull tools around as well, although a small loop of string works perfectly.The oldest method is tabs. That is when a piece of leather is used to bind to the frame and yet has a hole in it to thread the band through, pull tight and tie to itself. Both the ones here are made by John Webb II, Gamekeeper John Webb IIIs dad. A perfect ash cup with a 12 bore cap and a Kings pattern cutlery silver handle on a cast iron chemistry set flask holder. Cut down and drawn in without breaking somehow, leather wrapped, bullet-case capped and tabbed. Paracord can be welded to form a strong loop to do the same thing if you have the skills and military quality cordage.Recently, we have seen the explosion of slingshot designs withBits & Bobs: WASP tubes/plugs/clips, colourful ones from Celtic clamps and clips that enable flat band fixing without wrap-and-tuckCattys, paracord tabs and Multi-tool.024 SlingshotWorld024-025_SSW004 frame fixings.indd 24 01/08/2020 15:04'