sir , the way you stated , he is a friend of mine , hit me like Walter Brennan singing about Old Rivers, , and watching this video makes me wish he was a friend of mine also , 🍻
That's what's called a gifted natural. No 100 dollar aluminum slingshot. No draw length calculations and special rubber bands or ammo. Just Pure talent.
You only need 50$ really for a decent on. Also you’re still calculating your draw lengths since elastic is used regardless. More power gets you better hits when hunting.
Technique over technology, grip, anchor points, reference points, consistency and repetition. The most impressive part for me was that he used natural rocks as ammo that alone introduces a ton of variables that can effect accuracy.
Well said. The world is losing men with character everyday, and fewer are being produced. Certainly makes you want to cherish the old timers and learn a thing or two while we've got them.
An old man who can hit a quarter in mid-air with a sling shot. There are untold numbers of skeet shooters who could not do that with a shotgun. Just incredible. Genius-level shooting. Rufus is now one of my all-time favorite people.
Country folks like Rufus are getting more rare with each passing year. To have someone like him as a friend would mean a life long friend that you could be depended on for anything. Rufus reminds me of my Grandfather, simple but smart, hardworking and honest. Not too many people like him around anymore...live long Rufus....keep them Japanese Beetles at bay!!
This was one of the very first TH-cam videos I ever watched. It gives me so much more nostalgia than I anticipated it would. I was a kid and life was more simple.
@grumpy old fart lol two really smart Christian old men calling each other names and having a pissing contest online... boomers get off the internet and reread your Bibles, pride comes before the fall
@grumpy old fart let's not start being dishonest, too... you're not proudly boasting of Christ or your faith, you are shamelessly boasting of and using as a bludgeoning tool your "superior intelligence" and career choices... it's kind of pathetic on both sides.
grumpy old fart Do you even know who the 144,000 are? They are the 12 tribes of Israel, and 12,000 Jews from each tribe will spread the gospel to all corners of the earth. This will happen shortly after Tribulation begins, and then they will be martyrs later, as the beast will order them killed. You know very little of our Lords teaching, and I can only assume you are a Jehovah witness, as they believe in the annointed 144,000, which is just untrue. Quit spreading your BS, because I have a pretty strong BS sniffer on me!
This man is so North Carolina. It is people like him that made me decide to stay here after I left the Army. Meeting my wife and her family here didn't hurt. She passed away young but I have still never considered moving.
I have my Paw-Paws first slingshot that he made me from dogwood when he retired in 1977 after working 46 years at JP Stephens in Boger City, NC. His story was similar, but not quite as skilled. That slingshot is my most prized possession that money can't buy!
For anyone wondering how he actually aims without looking, it's a very simple but honed technique. He's what's known as a "Gunslinger" and he has never forgotten the name of his father.
I know this is a bit late but one reason they are probably curving is if they are flat or flatish, if they are then they will curve like a boomerang or frisbee and they also make a really cool noise as they crack the air. They’re good for making cool sounds or hitting something round a corner I suppose but are just a bit too inaccurate for most other things.
Remember Mr. Rufus well. He would come to Bennett to have corn ground at the feed mill my uncle owned. I worked there part time in the summer and on weekends and whenever he came in it was a real treat. The old guys would set around drinking coffee and telling tales. Some of the farmers would bring children and grandchildren to the mill. Rufus would bring out his bean shooter and everyone was in awe at what he could do with something so simple. It was a special time and place. Blessed to have been a part of that time and place.
Thank you for sharing. That makes me excited to go to our local mill this year - it will be my first time. I'm so honored to be getting into farming community and all I can say is I'm ashamed I didn't see how precious it was sooner.
At 67, I took my first wood carving lesson today. The first thing I thought about making was a slingshot. I got the idea after watching this vid several years ago. God, would u tell Rufus he left a legacy? Thank u. And thank u Rufus.
Very true. Based on my own experiences it's a state of mind like no other & feels incredible, almost narcotic-like yet the complete opposite of impared. You are aware of everything you need to be. This man has used slingshots for so many decades he can comfortably relax into "the zone" & let his subconscious do most of the work while he focuses on the target. He is absolutely incredible & I'm really happy this news team took the initiative to find & record this man for posterity.
Not really. This is called intuitive aiming and some people can just do it better than most. When I was a kid, I just sort of figured out that I was crazy accurate with rubber bands. I would shoot flies that got into the house, make little targets for myself, that kind of thing. Never once did I practice. Being in the zone is just being in the zone. You don't know it until you've felt it and it's really hard to describe to other people. X-factor, pizazz, brain fire, and a whole slew of other names are getting at the same hard-to-describe feel.
We used to make our own as kids back in the 1950's The red rubber inner tire tubes (before the advent of tubeless tires) was the preference. Back when life was simple and beautiful, (No internet, cellphones, video games, tablets etc). I remember those times very well.
Yeah but it wasn’t for the internet I would have never learned about this dude . People can say what they like but technology has made the world a better place .
@@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 How cool! Can't wait to see your video you doing all those things you described using random stones as your ammo and duplicating everything Rufus did in the video. Let me know when you put your video out.
He reminds me a lot of my Grandaddy, I miss him every day. Grew up shooting slingshots just like them never was that good though, yes Mr. Rufus U were the best sir.✌
I have seen competitive slingshots, but this man is truly gifted. His eyesight must have been perfect. I hope he had a great life and is happy where he is now.
Chubbeth's Thunder but a child in a room with a phone & tv and a child in a room with a slingshot & see who comes out smarter, you wouldn’t even know who he was if you wasn’t on your phone watching your idiot box
A tv isn't necessarily an idiot box. It depends on what you watch. Cell phones on the other hand are annoying as hell. Everyone's a damn zombie walking around with those fucking things.
@@foretell6819 seeing as most of the real world now days is communicating through emails and phone calls id put my money on the kid with the phone.... plus having a slingshot does not mean you know how to actually use it...hell even if you did does knowing how to use a slingshot actually make you smarter?......no it does not having a slingshots not gonna teach you how to fielddress a rabbit to eat it let alone cook it safetly its not gonna teach you how to sew to make a pounch out of the fur but you know what can? a fucking cell phone with acssess to every book known to man
There is something to be said about this kind of mastery. I've mastered one or two things, but not quite to this degree. What I've mastered others could likely duplicate. However, very few people in the world would ever be this good at a slingshot. Amazing.
I have no idea how I got here, but it reminds me of my childhood. We used to search out the perfect branch, cut a slit on both top sides, use old inner tubes for the rubber and an old piece of belt for the pocket to put stones in. I could hit nearly everything ...lots of practice with an endless supply of rocks!
I grew up about an hour away from this man. My grandpa and I drove down to his house, had to be about 1986-87. My grandpa must have seen him on this show or Carson. He bought me and himself a beanshooter. I still have it. Serial # 6413.
In his first shot you can well see how Rufus Turned The Pouch with his thumb nail facing the ground. I credit my friend Ryan for discovering this important fact for accurate safe shooting. The fellow doing the interview says that Rufus does not aim the sling shot.
Amazing shooter.....no one would even attempt doing accuracy shots using rocks instead of the perfectly round ammo we have today. Very inspirational to watch him do his magic.
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Poor guy could have been rich if he had grown up with his own you tube channel.
He inspired me to take up my own beanshooter. Got a ways to go before I could pick off a quarter, but I do all right keeping the crows and the squirrels out of the garden.
@a1seus lol I do believe you are correct, that was about as much fun as they could have back then , lol hoop and stick , I had to ask my grandpa about that
I used to hang out with an old guy when I was a teen,we would hunt an fish,target practice,and somtimes get drunk,but that guy was every bit as good with a "grit shooter"as this guy.I can shoot fair but not as good as this guy,and no where near as good as my ole buddy. People like this deserve alot of respect,they are treasures full of knowledge and are just plain fun to hang around and learn from..
I just love this good ol' boy. Nice and gentlemanly, not a real braggart. Even more amazing is how his rig is simply the fork out of a tree, not a more sophisticated Wrist Rocket. Plus, he is simply using irregular shaped rocks for ammo. I feel sorry for anyone who attempts to pull off a home invasion were he at home. I'm sorry to hear that Rufus is gone now, though. I hoist my beer to the old boy.
Legend is that the dog at the end is a dog that he accidentally killed, thinking it was a coyote trying to kill his family's chickens, when he was a kid. Every time he's been videoed it shows up somewhere in the footage.
It was by the blood of patriots the Constitution was formed and if necessary it will be by the blood of patriots it will be defended. Think 2nd Amendment.
The beanshooter doth not a sharpshooter make, fellas. It's the person holding it. Practice makes perfect, and even with a fairly modest rig, the slingshot can be a kickass weapon if you know how to use it. Knew a kid who could bullseye squirrels every time, and his slingshot was basically a stick with rubber on it.
When I was a kid my older brother and I would find an old inner tube for the rubber and also to make a rubber band to hold the rubber on the wood fork. We would take an old razor blade put tape on one side so we wouldn’t cut ourselves and cut the inner tube into the strips we needed. We would go out the the hills and find the fork on a branch cut it and clean it up. Then we would find an old leather shoe and cut out the tongue and use it to make the pouch to hold the rock. We shot just about anything that would move hahaha. I recall one time my brother even killed a fish in shallow water with it. That was what seems like another lifetime ago.
I was that good as a kid up until I was a teen, we handmade ours the same way, no store bought wrist rocket crap. Even though I rarely shoot anymore I still have my old one and a bag or rubber and leather to make more. I'd just have to go on a search for staffs which isn't easy with the lack of trees we have here in Vegas.
Seriously, anyone have an explanation of how he can hit with such precision without aiming? The physics seems to lack a significant variable. Pretty incredible. more imressive than sniper records.
He can feel the tensile force vector along the bands very precisely without looking, the eyes are then free to perform target acquisition without manual reference. His accurate kinesthetic sense was further developed as a childhood survival mechanism.
I had a buddy i use to shoot. 22s with you could flip a aspirin in the air and he could hit it. He always told me to point not aim!! But that was back when 22 shell's were 50cents a box
Or cut you a branch and make one. I make them out of branches, melted and formed plastic, glued-up thin plywood, all sorts of hardwoods.... it’s almost as fun as shooting them. Give it a try, or buy one if you must (I do that, too)
did he ever call it a wrist rocket? every time I used a slingshot I hurt myself, broke windows, dented metal, killed/wounded birds, made people cry etc
Great interview, i like hearing about colorful characters, I used to shoot pool and heard stories and once seen an old interview of a guy named Utly puckett of fort worth tx. Crazy how these folks come from humble beginnings and made it this long into a quite sordid society
My father-in-law back in Sparta Tennessee had this scale down pat he could shoot at a Target and put out the eye, James Rex called it a flip, most commonly known as a slingshot
steve Bruce Sparta, TN 😁 both sides of my family were from Cannon County, Middle, TN. Used slingshots but could never match that kinda skill, so awesome! Bet his life is so simple and so uncomplicated
How did we ever get to where we are in This world? There was a time not long ago when this guy was like you father or grandfather or neighbor. Boy I miss those days!
America's been messed up since the beginning. Whenever you feel whimsical about the good ol' days just remember the massacres of Natives, the burning of witches, greedy farming leading to 100+ year war against squirrels, literal concentration camps for multiple races, poor farming practices leading to the dustbowl, the Great Depression, slavery, the fact that every single president since at least WW2 has committed at least 1 war crime... Being good with a slingshot and not watching TV is not the thing that makes or breaks America.
theoya you can continue to live your life in misery and find the bad in everything. I chose to enjoy the nostalgia of this. It has nothing to do with the slingshot to me. It’s all about the warm and peaceful nature. You may not have had the opportunity to grow up in a small town in these times but I did. If he was putting horseshoes on an elephant it wouldn’t have changed anything for me. Most ppl who watched this video got so much more than a man who is great with a slingshot.
theoya also back then country folk had nothing to do with politics. It was all about family, friends and community. We didn’t participate in anything negative in the big picture. You hardly knew the ppl the next town over. As far as everyone was concerned their town or county was the whole country. Every place had its own unique culture, heritage and legends. Now with the internet everyone is becoming the same person through social engineering. Also because of exposure every town’s best kept hidden treasures are being exposed and it draws in ppl who don’t respect it like we do and they end up changing our culture.
what he cant explain is the power of hand eye co-ordination and just shows how precise a human can be without the use of any external assistance his brain making such a calculations as to tell his lead hand where to be and how far back his power hand needs to be. this is peak human potential for sling shooting
He was a friend of mine. He made me many different slingshots when I was a kid. He was fun to be around, I miss him.
Music And Coffee u still have them?
sir , the way you stated , he is a friend of mine , hit me like Walter Brennan singing about Old Rivers, , and watching this video makes me wish he was a friend of mine also , 🍻
Is he dead?
flammenengel2002 sadly, yes. In 1994
beats all I ever saw
It's people like this that makes life interesting
Indeed. I also approve of this method of bug smashing.
I would’ve loved to hung out with him. He seemed like a nice old man.♥️♥️♥️♥️
The fact that this man is using rocks and not steel bearings or marbles or something makes this 10x more amazing.
That's what's called a gifted natural. No 100 dollar aluminum slingshot. No draw length calculations and special rubber bands or ammo. Just Pure talent.
Too much tech begins it these days instead of just getting out and getting good.
You only need 50$ really for a decent on. Also you’re still calculating your draw lengths since elastic is used regardless. More power gets you better hits when hunting.
Technique over technology, grip, anchor points, reference points, consistency and repetition. The most impressive part for me was that he used natural rocks as ammo that alone introduces a ton of variables that can effect accuracy.
@@disband_thebbc5933 we overthink things and follow physics as if under ''ideal'' conditions.
Rocks work as good as round projectiles at that size
Not just "pure talent". Years and years of practice. Don't dismiss that
Speaks softly and carries a forked stick
Ha! And what a find this comment is
@@gromburt we are very lucky then.
@@joeljose182 yup
Destin from 11 years ago on this slingshotter video?? 😲
hello
Priceless
These old timers sadly passing are leaving us with a lesser place without them
Well said. The world is losing men with character everyday, and fewer are being produced. Certainly makes you want to cherish the old timers and learn a thing or two while we've got them.
Now we're the old timers
It's a shame that the old generation of the Greatest Generation is being replaced by the baby boomers. Incomparable
@@quantumleap4023 similar sentiments have been said since man was able to express them.
I still use the chain whip sword technique
An old man who can hit a quarter in mid-air with a sling shot. There are untold numbers of skeet shooters who could not do that with a shotgun. Just incredible. Genius-level shooting. Rufus is now one of my all-time favorite people.
The most humble
"World Champion" I have ever seen.
Robert Robb can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic
Richard Petty too.
@@senatorjosephmccarthy2720 Dale Earnhardt was more humble
Country folks like Rufus are getting more rare with each passing year. To have someone like him as a friend would mean a life long friend that you could be depended on for anything. Rufus reminds me of my Grandfather, simple but smart, hardworking and honest. Not too many people like him around anymore...live long Rufus....keep them Japanese Beetles at bay!!
Same, even more so today 😢
This was one of the very first TH-cam videos I ever watched. It gives me so much more nostalgia than I anticipated it would. I was a kid and life was more simple.
This is how we were raised before media . Honest humble and frugal.
ok boomer
@@DevilNeverKnows lol, I knew that was coming.
Never underestimate a kid with a sling, said the Philistine.
grumpy old fart Actually he did slay him with Goliaths own sword.
@grumpy old fart lol two really smart Christian old men calling each other names and having a pissing contest online... boomers get off the internet and reread your Bibles, pride comes before the fall
@grumpy old fart let's not start being dishonest, too... you're not proudly boasting of Christ or your faith, you are shamelessly boasting of and using as a bludgeoning tool your "superior intelligence" and career choices... it's kind of pathetic on both sides.
So good hahahahaha
grumpy old fart Do you even know who the 144,000 are? They are the 12 tribes of Israel, and 12,000 Jews from each tribe will spread the gospel to all corners of the earth. This will happen shortly after Tribulation begins, and then they will be martyrs later, as the beast will order them killed. You know very little of our Lords teaching, and I can only assume you are a Jehovah witness, as they believe in the annointed 144,000, which is just untrue. Quit spreading your BS, because I have a pretty strong BS sniffer on me!
This man is so North Carolina. It is people like him that made me decide to stay here after I left the Army. Meeting my wife and her family here didn't hurt. She passed away young but I have still never considered moving.
Joerg Sprave brought me here.
aznmarty256 also me...
also me...
Wish these two could have met. Would have been interesting.
me too
The "Instant Rufus", yep.
Amazed 11 years ago and im still amazed now
WOW! this guy has a gift for certain.
Hell yea
Practice something for 500.000 hours and you’ll be halfway of mastering that skill
@@armandoguerra7658 so 114.15 years of non stop practice will equal mastery.
"How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice."
I’m here because my man jeorge sprave gave this gentlemen a shoutout! Rufus was like the casual assassin!
This man is a real-life Jedi knight.
Well. Maybe like Cal Kestis. He uses ranged weapons. But most jedi wouldn't touch anything but a Saber.
I have my Paw-Paws first slingshot that he made me from dogwood when he retired in 1977 after working 46 years at JP Stephens in Boger City, NC. His story was similar, but not quite as skilled. That slingshot is my most prized possession that money can't buy!
Steve Gilbert small world... I'm from Lincolnton too..
My grandpa and I made a rambone style slingshot out of thick heavy duty black plastic together. And If I can find it, I'll keep it forever
It was thick enough to grip properly. Very nice plastic with a soft feel to the touch but tough enough to stop smaller bullets
For anyone wondering how he actually aims without looking, it's a very simple but honed technique. He's what's known as a "Gunslinger" and he has never forgotten the name of his father.
Dark tower eh 😁 love that movie
That would explain a lot actually. A gunslinger lost in another world.
Thankee-sai you speak true.
Amazing how accurate he was with odd shaped rocks. I've tried rocks but they seem to curve a lot.
You're shooting at too great a distance, that's why.
I know this is a bit late but one reason they are probably curving is if they are flat or flatish, if they are then they will curve like a boomerang or frisbee and they also make a really cool noise as they crack the air. They’re good for making cool sounds or hitting something round a corner I suppose but are just a bit too inaccurate for most other things.
"i aint a showoff. . i just give you the fact"
DAMNNN lol
I am reading your comment in 2024 watching this bean shooter. Are you still alive and kicking?
He's like an operator he doesn't aim, he points.
Operator af
"See the Japanese beetle's ( doin it doggy style ) there on the leaf?"
Yep
"Watch me get 'em"
😂😂😂
That's how I want to go out
@@donlitos you the best bro..lol
@@donlitos humping a Japanese beetle while some guy hits you with a rock? LOL!!
"Where's you want me too hit'em"?
Remember Mr. Rufus well. He would come to Bennett to have corn ground at the feed mill my uncle owned. I worked there part time in the summer and on weekends and whenever he came in it was a real treat. The old guys would set around drinking coffee and telling tales. Some of the farmers would bring children and grandchildren to the mill. Rufus would bring out his bean shooter and everyone was in awe at what he could do with something so simple. It was a special time and place. Blessed to have been a part of that time and place.
Thank you for sharing. That makes me excited to go to our local mill this year - it will be my first time. I'm so honored to be getting into farming community and all I can say is I'm ashamed I didn't see how precious it was sooner.
At 67, I took my first wood carving lesson today. The first thing I thought about making was a slingshot. I got the idea after watching this vid several years ago. God, would u tell Rufus he left a legacy? Thank u. And thank u Rufus.
Awesome 👌
Amazing how good you can get at something when your belly is rumbling lol.
Nah man I guarantee that he did it for fun 99% of the time.
Can you imagine how much fun he would of had on the sling shot channel!
The Sling Shot Channel?
@@victorious276 yea he means jorg sprave
damnn as a kid i used to watch him, still have dents in my walls because of it🤣
This is “the zone” or being “on fire” athletes talk about. He is constantly in the zone.
Very true. Based on my own experiences it's a state of mind like no other & feels incredible, almost narcotic-like yet the complete opposite of impared. You are aware of everything you need to be. This man has used slingshots for so many decades he can comfortably relax into "the zone" & let his subconscious do most of the work while he focuses on the target. He is absolutely incredible & I'm really happy this news team took the initiative to find & record this man for posterity.
Not really. This is called intuitive aiming and some people can just do it better than most. When I was a kid, I just sort of figured out that I was crazy accurate with rubber bands. I would shoot flies that got into the house, make little targets for myself, that kind of thing. Never once did I practice.
Being in the zone is just being in the zone. You don't know it until you've felt it and it's really hard to describe to other people. X-factor, pizazz, brain fire, and a whole slew of other names are getting at the same hard-to-describe feel.
We used to make our own as kids back in the 1950's The red rubber inner tire tubes (before the advent of tubeless tires) was the preference. Back when life was simple and beautiful, (No internet, cellphones, video games, tablets etc). I remember those times very well.
Yeah but it wasn’t for the internet I would have never learned about this dude . People can say what they like but technology has made the world a better place .
@@willingsubject389 go read the unabomber manifesto
"i just give ya the facts"
"It ain't braggin if you can do it"- Dizzy Dean
I don't think there's anybody else better than this guy
@@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 Well, of course you are.
@@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 I know there are people 10x better. I totally agree with you
@@manofkentcatapultsgunsando5069 How cool! Can't wait to see your video you doing all those things you described using random stones as your ammo and duplicating everything Rufus did in the video. Let me know when you put your video out.
I just love this gentlemen. There are a lot of folks like this where I live in Ky. thank God. We need times like these again.
He reminds me a lot of my Grandaddy, I miss him every day. Grew up shooting slingshots just like them never was that good though, yes Mr. Rufus U were the best sir.✌
What A Gifted Man!... God bless him.
I guess that 169 haters jusr are unable to appreciate much at all
@thchillz ya beat me to it.
I have seen competitive slingshots, but this man is truly gifted. His eyesight must have been perfect. I hope he had a great life and is happy where he is now.
No dumb phone or idiot box. Very interesting man that would have been awesome to meet. RIP Mr. Rufus Taft Hussey!!!
Chubbeth's Thunder but a child in a room with a phone & tv and a child in a room with a slingshot & see who comes out smarter, you wouldn’t even know who he was if you wasn’t on your phone watching your idiot box
@@mjkrbjcw The kid with the slingshot comes out the room smarter. You're wrong I wasn't watching on my phone or idiot box..
PROUD_BRIT who would survive out in the real world tho? Most likely the kid with the slingshot
A tv isn't necessarily an idiot box. It depends on what you watch. Cell phones on the other hand are annoying as hell. Everyone's a damn zombie walking around with those fucking things.
@@foretell6819 seeing as most of the real world now days is communicating through emails and phone calls id put my money on the kid with the phone.... plus having a slingshot does not mean you know how to actually use it...hell even if you did does knowing how to use a slingshot actually make you smarter?......no it does not having a slingshots not gonna teach you how to fielddress a rabbit to eat it let alone cook it safetly its not gonna teach you how to sew to make a pounch out of the fur but you know what can? a fucking cell phone with acssess to every book known to man
fucking real life aimbot.
Rufus Hussey, the beanshooter man; fastest slingshot in the East! R.I.P. 1994
I bet he had loads of fun with the mail man👍🏼😂👍🏼
There is something to be said about this kind of mastery. I've mastered one or two things, but not quite to this degree. What I've mastered others could likely duplicate. However, very few people in the world would ever be this good at a slingshot. Amazing.
For a split second at 3:56 there is an image of a dog that flashes on the screen. It scared the ever loving piss out of me!
amazing guy.not many left like him.sadly
Is plenty
This old timer is the real deal
The greatest generation right there. Man I wish I grew up with these guys
I have no idea how I got here, but it reminds me of my childhood. We used to search out the perfect branch, cut a slit on both top sides, use old inner tubes for the rubber and an old piece of belt for the pocket to put stones in. I could hit nearly everything ...lots of practice with an endless supply of rocks!
When I was growing up I hunted cotten tail, dove and quail with a slingshot.
I never went hungry...
Practice makes perfect 👍 well done Rufus 👏
25 years resting with the father 🙏👌👍
I grew up about an hour away from this man. My grandpa and I drove down to his house, had to be about 1986-87. My grandpa must have seen him on this show or Carson. He bought me and himself a beanshooter. I still have it. Serial # 6413.
In his first shot you can well see how Rufus Turned The Pouch with his thumb nail facing the ground. I credit my friend Ryan for discovering this important fact for accurate safe shooting. The fellow doing the interview says that Rufus does not aim the sling shot.
Amazing shooter.....no one would even attempt doing accuracy shots using rocks instead of the perfectly round ammo we have today. Very inspirational to watch him do his magic.
Poor guy could have been rich if he had grown up with his own you tube channel.
That man is unbelievable! I could watch him all day and still be just as amazed.
I'm from Salisbury NC my grandpaw use to make the same exact slingshot and would dare to say he was just as good. I have one in my drawer right now.
What kind of bands do you use?
Zach Eagle he might be good but I doubt he would be able to hit a nut in the air let alone a quarter
He couldn't hold a light to rufus hussey that's why your grandpa isn't famous
He inspired me to take up my own beanshooter. Got a ways to go before I could pick off a quarter, but I do all right keeping the crows and the squirrels out of the garden.
"See that colored feller over yonder? watch this."
lmao
James White gonna knock cigarette out behind his ear! Check it
see that handkerchief hangin out of that back pocket ?
😂😂😂😂😂
I watched this as a youngster when it aired the very first time on WBTV in Charlotte.
Chris Clackum and Carolina Camera.
Damn , I'm getting old !
This goes to show you that SMARTPHONES and TELEVISION is a big distraction in our lives.
@a1seus big distractions like you-tube lol really I think they're trying to say people need to get outside more often.
@a1seus lol I do believe you are correct, that was about as much fun as they could have back then , lol hoop and stick , I had to ask my grandpa about that
@a1seus yes sir, agreed
My grandpa said when he was a kid, he knew a man who was like this guy.
Boy that is some skill and with rocks I take my hat off to him RIP Beanshooter man...
this guy is the ultimate marksman. the best rifle snipers in the world could not match this guys natural ability!
Now that's a good ol' boy.
I used to hang out with an old guy when I was a teen,we would hunt an fish,target practice,and somtimes get drunk,but that guy was every bit as good with a "grit shooter"as this guy.I can shoot fair but not as good as this guy,and no where near as good as my ole buddy.
People like this deserve alot of respect,they are treasures full of knowledge and are just plain fun to hang around and learn from..
He said, " I'm the Slingshot Man!!! Who the hell are you?" Ha ha ha ha ha 😉
i enjoy watching a genius at work, no matter what the trade!
This guy looks awesome
Simple man & simple ways an I'd say he's the best with a sling shot ! 👍👍
This guy is a slingshot legend.
Steven Vanheel He is indeed but there is gamekeeper john in the uk. Check out his shooting on you tube.
OPFS shooter can also do Rufus Hussey trick and Fowler.
SlingshotWarrrior will never be the same
Great video. Reminded me of my granddad. He wasn't a sling shot guy. But he grew up in a poor farm family with 14 brothers and sisters.
Rewatching in 2018 😁
I'm rewatching in 2019. Get on my level
2019
Root ball same here
Just watched him again. I also saw his clip with Johnny Carson. That was a true talent.
anybody else see the dog @ the end of the video? 3:56
Yep...looked like a pit bull to me.
+Shawn Kumangai yuh
Good old, reusable VHS
Shawn Kumangai yeah
Bean Man: See that dawg?
Reporter: Yip.
!*POP*!
I just love this good ol' boy.
Nice and gentlemanly, not a real braggart.
Even more amazing is how his rig is simply the fork out of a tree, not a more sophisticated Wrist Rocket.
Plus, he is simply using irregular shaped rocks for ammo.
I feel sorry for anyone who attempts to pull off a home invasion were he at home.
I'm sorry to hear that Rufus is gone now, though.
I hoist my beer to the old boy.
Legend is that the dog at the end is a dog that he accidentally killed, thinking it was a coyote trying to kill his family's chickens, when he was a kid. Every time he's been videoed it shows up somewhere in the footage.
AhAh very funny
"Are you the fella with the slingshot?"
"No I'm THE one" 🤔 00:14
Just think he'd be in prison if he lived in new jersey.
In Commie-Fornia he would have been sentenced to death in the Gas Chamber.
It was by the blood of patriots the Constitution was formed and if necessary it will be by the blood of patriots it will be defended. Think 2nd Amendment.
@@juans6639 commie-fornia? Thats a good one i haven't heard that one yet. Im gonna start using it
@@nobodynamedme6963Thanks, I think it is appropriate considering it is full of Liberal, Socialist Communists DEMOC-RATS.
The beanshooter doth not a sharpshooter make, fellas. It's the person holding it.
Practice makes perfect, and even with a fairly modest rig, the slingshot can be a kickass weapon if you know how to use it.
Knew a kid who could bullseye squirrels every time, and his slingshot was basically a stick with rubber on it.
When I was a kid my older brother and I would find an old inner tube for the rubber and also to make a rubber band to hold the rubber on the wood fork. We would take an old razor blade put tape on one side so we wouldn’t cut ourselves and cut the inner tube into the strips we needed. We would go out the the hills and find the fork on a branch cut it and clean it up. Then we would find an old leather shoe and cut out the tongue and use it to make the pouch to hold the rock. We shot just about anything that would move hahaha. I recall one time my brother even killed a fish in shallow water with it. That was what seems like another lifetime ago.
this man + the inventions of jörg sprave = unstopabble
This guy is perfect for the Zombie Apocalypse.
They already got 10k
I just realized I responded 3 years later lol
I was that good as a kid up until I was a teen, we handmade ours the same way, no store bought wrist rocket crap. Even though I rarely shoot anymore I still have my old one and a bag or rubber and leather to make more. I'd just have to go on a search for staffs which isn't easy with the lack of trees we have here in Vegas.
Seriously, anyone have an explanation of how he can hit with such precision without aiming?
The physics seems to lack a significant variable.
Pretty incredible. more imressive than sniper records.
schlooonginator muscle memory.
He can feel the tensile force vector along the bands very precisely without looking, the eyes are then free to perform target acquisition without manual reference. His accurate kinesthetic sense was further developed as a childhood survival mechanism.
I had a buddy i use to shoot. 22s with you could flip a aspirin in the air and he could hit it. He always told me to point not aim!! But that was back when 22 shell's were 50cents a box
This man was the best sling shot around, RIP, and his records of combined speed and accuracy will live on forever.
Makes me want to go out and buy a “bean shooter”
Or cut you a branch and make one. I make them out of branches, melted and formed plastic, glued-up thin plywood, all sorts of hardwoods.... it’s almost as fun as shooting them. Give it a try, or buy one if you must (I do that, too)
I still come back to this video at least once a month
did he ever call it a wrist rocket? every time I used a slingshot I hurt myself, broke windows, dented metal, killed/wounded birds, made people cry etc
Never too late to become an adult.
Great interview, i like hearing about colorful characters, I used to shoot pool and heard stories and once seen an old interview of a guy named Utly puckett of fort worth tx. Crazy how these folks come from humble beginnings and made it this long into a quite sordid society
Let me shov you its features
*laughs in german*
An American gem, Mr. Rufus!
"He doesnt have a TV or a telephone "
Thats the secret right there..
A fellow Carolinian with incredible talent. I think it takes a lot more skill to hit your target with a slingshot than a gun. And strength as well.
2019 anyone?
My father-in-law back in Sparta Tennessee had this scale down pat he could shoot at a Target and put out the eye, James Rex called it a flip, most commonly known as a slingshot
steve Bruce Sparta, TN 😁 both sides of my family were from Cannon County, Middle, TN. Used slingshots but could never match that kinda skill, so awesome! Bet his life is so simple and so uncomplicated
Should of told him to drop that weed to the left
Should have, not of. Unfuck yourself.
@@slappy8941 lol.. your an idiot
Either way .. . Dont matter to him.
@@Blue1Sapphire it would of been impossible
@@chipsammich2078 You're, not your. Unfuck yourself.
Wow!! Naturally gifted, he is using the simple way of shooting with direction
Dont make em like this fella in more..that's why America is so messed up
How did we ever get to where we are in This world? There was a time not long ago when this guy was like you father or grandfather or neighbor. Boy I miss those days!
America's been messed up since the beginning. Whenever you feel whimsical about the good ol' days just remember the massacres of Natives, the burning of witches, greedy farming leading to 100+ year war against squirrels, literal concentration camps for multiple races, poor farming practices leading to the dustbowl, the Great Depression, slavery, the fact that every single president since at least WW2 has committed at least 1 war crime...
Being good with a slingshot and not watching TV is not the thing that makes or breaks America.
theoya you can continue to live your life in misery and find the bad in everything. I chose to enjoy the nostalgia of this. It has nothing to do with the slingshot to me. It’s all about the warm and peaceful nature. You may not have had the opportunity to grow up in a small town in these times but I did. If he was putting horseshoes on an elephant it wouldn’t have changed anything for me. Most ppl who watched this video got so much more than a man who is great with a slingshot.
theoya also back then country folk had nothing to do with politics. It was all about family, friends and community. We didn’t participate in anything negative in the big picture. You hardly knew the ppl the next town over. As far as everyone was concerned their town or county was the whole country. Every place had its own unique culture, heritage and legends. Now with the internet everyone is becoming the same person through social engineering. Also because of exposure every town’s best kept hidden treasures are being exposed and it draws in ppl who don’t respect it like we do and they end up changing our culture.
what he cant explain is the power of hand eye co-ordination and just shows how precise a human can be without the use of any external assistance his brain making such a calculations as to tell his lead hand where to be and how far back his power hand needs to be.
this is peak human potential for sling shooting