Rufus Hussey Ia A Slingshot Marksman Who Never Misses - The Original Georgia Traveler WSB-TV
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- When it comes to slingshots, Rufus Hussey is a slingshot marksman who never misses. He's the expert. Rufus showed me how to make a slingshot. He started making them for hunting when he was a boy in Randolph County, North Carolina. The family had only one rifle and lots of mouths to feed. By 1952 he was known far and wide for his beanshooters so he started selling and giving them away. His biggest claim to fame was when he appeared on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1986. They called him the world's most accurate slingshot marksman. I can tell you this, when we visited him in 1978, he hit rocks, walnuts, beer cans and even quarters. Rufus Hussey was a slingshot marksman who never misses.
This was America in the 1970s.
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The Traveler series with Andy Johnston was an Emmy award winning program that showcased amazing people, unusual things, local legends, food finds, outdoor activities, folk art, and family fun. In 2022 the Walter J. Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia founded The Original Georgia Traveler -- Andy Johnston Collection to preserve and maintain the stories. This story aired on WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News in 1978.
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Rufus was my neighbor growing up in the '60's! My brother, cousin and I helped get up hay on his farm. He paid well and his wife always had a big table of food prepared when we were through! He was a WW2 Veteran and a very good man! He made 100's if not 1000's of those before he started numbering them on the bottom! He was on the Johnny Carson show as well and you can find it on YT! I still have 2 of his to this day!
Very cool neighbor :)
Could you shoot as good as him, though?
Thats really awesome, you keep the memories going. Thank you from Montana!
@@bigskygemsmontana9464 what's up Mon-tucky!
Awesome…..love it!
Don't let Democrats see this! Next thing you know, you'll be taxed for owning a sling-shot, or on some FBI list!
You know what makes this man more deadly than most? He never runs out of ammunition.
Sounds like the USA.
@@kevindunlap5525 Yep, got to feed our trigger happy utopia.
10-4!!!!!!!!!!!
@@mic4902It's not like you're led to believe.
@@jacobmccandles1767 what ever is..
This is an Awesome Video!! That’s what you call shooting instinctively, without sights, it takes a long, long time to master with a slingshot like this man did…. I’m good with a slingshot, but nowhere near as good as this man, Hopefully I will be one day though….
Fake
The thing is being a good shot means the difference between eating or going to bed hungry when the stakes are that high you get good quick
Let me tip you off about the story I'll post tomorrow. The story is about one of the last rolling stores in Alabama. For decades they were a big part of the rural south but by 1973 there were only 2-3 left. I hope you will check it out.
@@billybarr7443 I don't think so. They didn't make so many fake videos back then. Because if they got caught they were finished in the industry. Plus Ol' Rufus seem genuine I don't know I guess I just want it to be true
@@Barabbas7798 its 110% true as the sky
There was a guy from Mississippi that was just like this. He was on our local news about the same time period.
He said that his big brother got the gun, so he used a slingshot to help feed his family growing up. These old timers were amazing.
We lose so much everytime that one of these guys pass on.
And they call this modern bull crap "progress". Those old timers lived. We just exist for the sake of it.
Look at the juxtaposition of these old timers and the young up in CHAZ/CHOP in 2020. Talk about night and day difference.
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During the 80’s as a kid, It was mandatory in my neighbourhood to carry one of these.
BMX bike✅
Pocket knife✅
Sling shot and spare rubbers✅
Disappearing out side all day!✅
Now that's the correct way to grow up. 👌
@@angryman3317
It was, those were great days!
Constantly fighting for best shot title!
Absolutely! Then we became teenagers and it was
Wallet ☑️
Car Keys ☑️
Spare rubbers were still on the list as well 😉
@@dickhitswater4836
Yep!
You’re spot on!
I’d love to go back to the early 90’s
Just turned 18 with a license to frill!
spare rubbers? what is it?
I wouldn't mess with this guy! He seems like he'd be more accurate with that sling shot that a shot gun. His hand to eye coordination is impeccable!
Lol! I totally agree!!
Dang imagine this guy in a bar fight, he pulls out the trusty slingshot fires a Nickel at his nuts and runs away 😂😂💀
You don’t need to be that accurate with a shot gun
@@VinylUnboxings anyone who says that must not have much experience with shotguns.
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Wow. The America we grew up with. Now they'd figure out some way to call him a white supremacist because he's from the south and builds weapons.
oh yeah. pray for these United States
Can’t just enjoy a video for what it is…
@@jeromewalton5553 Yeah. Like we did before all the triggered libs ruined it.
@@marcuscicero9587 i fear it's a bit late for prayer
It's because he has so much white privilege
I watched a later feature on this guy in which he showcases far more impressive skills. for example, from a much greater distance he’s able to make a weed the width of a spaghetti noodle fall left or right at the choice of his guest
I remember seeing him on the news in the mid 80's. Can't believe this reappeared on my timeline 35+ years later.
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I actually remember seeing these videos as a kid on GPTV
Thank you. Let me tip you off about the story I'll post tomorrow. The story is about one of the last rolling stores in Alabama. For decades they were a big part of the rural south but by 1973 there were only 2-3 left. I hope you will check it out.
Jethro Bodine was an expert shot with a double barrel slingshot.
I'd love to own one of the 1900 or so slingshots that he hand made!
My dad was left handed. He also had fantastic eyesight. 20-15 in one eye, 20-10 in the other. He used to sit in the shade of a little tool shed and with a Wham-O slingshot and BB's pick off the birds that tried to eat his grapes off the vine. Grapes that he made wine with. I never saw him miss. I was OK with my shooting, but not anywhere close to my dad's.
I've heard that baseball great Ted Williams had 20-10 vision and of course was a phenomenal hitter.
This is a serious reminder of the afternoons l spend with my dad
@@alrivers2297 Mr. Williams used his sight to great advantage as a Marine fighter pilot in WWII & Korea.
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Growing up in a Greek mountain village, my friends and I were pretty handy with a slingshot but this is crazy! Gets one to thinking how lethally accurate ancient slingers and peltasts were on the battlefield. Well done, Mr. Hussey! Requiescat In Pace.
This is actually a hand catapult. A sling shot is slung and one piece released to fire the projectile. These didnt come into existance until industrialized rubber was produced
Tom Jones - Yes, you’re quite right: this is called a “slingshot” in common parlance, but as you point out, erroneously so. I’ve made a small study of ancient slings and peltast auxiliary units. Thanks for the comment.
nice command of the third conjugation subjunctive, Latin is a language beautiful in its construction
marcus cicero - Gratias tibi ago, mate; vale.
Lol Just ask Goliath.
Takes me back when I was a kid making my own with my friends going out and popping stuff. Love it.
Takes me back to when we used to take shots at cars on the freeway.
@@MrBobchat do you still do bad things as an adult?
@@sam8404 Absolutely but some of them I wouldn't admit on social media or the cops would be knocking at my door. I'm a terrible person who no one would want dating their daughter or sister or mom.
Or all three at once which nearly happened
Hi Peter. Things were much simpler back then. You could fill an afternoon with a slingshot and a pocket full of rocks. If you want to see more like this, check out the latest story.
I bet if he bothered to aim he'd miss. Like a bow a slingshot is less accurate the longer you hold it under tension. It's amazing how you can shoot on pure instinct and never miss.
not that far off from 'flicking' shots in fps games
The key is to actually release just before full tension is reached by using an exact pull so there is no extra force to cause your aim to drift.
Marksmanship with any weapon is all about repetition/practice once the basics are mastered. With a sling shot more hand eye coordination comes into play than with firearms. Haven't touched a sling shot in over 50 years. Not even sure if they still are made but the "wrist rocket" slings were scary accurate and extremely powerful when using quality shot. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it but my older brother dropped a deer from about 15 yards with a head shot.
I still have two wrist rockets from when I was a kid, and a big bag of shot. Pulled 'em out of the closet after I watched this. I'm not as good as this old guy but my kids were pretty impressed with how good I am with it. I was surprised all those hours I spent as a kid are still in my muscle memory!
You would be mighty impressed with today's sling shot accuracy 🎯👍
I believe it. We used old bearings 1/4 to 3/8 in size and sometimes small marbles. They were deadly with accurate shot placement.
i got shot in the back with a marble folding news papers , glad it missed my spine, i saw the older kid that did it . he looked strange , slightly regretful , i did not cry out , just sat there for awhile , i did stupid stuff , everyone was stupid
Your brother was a pos. Poor deer had to die just for sick amusement.
Luv IT! Thank you for sharing this piece of slingshot history!! 😁👍👍👍
Thank you. He was a wonderful man. Hey, please pass the word and let your friends know how they can see him.
Some good old times with some good old boys
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LOL!! I always had a sling shot in my pocket as a kid...wasn't as good as this guy but I was pretty accurate with it😆
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In what year was this video filmed, will the people who shoot the slingshots be alive? I also like them very much.
Hi, this story was filmed in 1978. I'm sure there are some slingshot experts out there. Check out the USA Slingshot Shooters Facebook page. Thanks for watching the story.
Let me tip you off about the story I'll post tomorrow. The story is about one of the last rolling stores in Alabama. For decades they were a big part of the rural south but by 1973 there were only 2-3 left. I hope you will check it out.
I saw him on the Jonny Carson show many years ago. In his coveralls of course. They’d set up a bookcase and put a bunch of little figurines on it and Jonny would call out which ones to hit. Never a miss and they’d shatter as fast as Jonny called em out. Seemed like a nice guy and just plain good folks. Fun to watch.
Hey Jason. He was kind and patient. it took half a day to shoot that story. If you want to see more stories like this check out the latest one.
The good old days when you could fire a rock into the sky over a road.
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I’ve had slingshots all my long life and I’m good if I can hit a Honda...
Awesome 👍 This Man was A Master Slingshoter . BAD ASS 👍👊
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Respect the old timers.. they are all we have left of a dying age.. in 50 years all we’re going to have is tiktok grannys..
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My Dad, who was born in 1923, was also deadly accurate with a slingshot and always kept one around, although he referred to them as, "a pair of flips". To him, a "slingshot" was something totally different, as in what David used to dispatch Goliath. While growing up and coming of age in the throes of the Great Depression, he could always find rocks for his flips, but usually couldn't afford shells for the family's one old shotgun. Later in life, he always kept a bag of old marbles around in case he needed to be deadly accurate, like to dispatch any pesky bird that decided to to poop on the car or patio furniture for more than two days in a row.
I take it this video was made a while back. If he is still with us, I hope Mr. Hussey will leave a video tutorial on the proper technique for shooting a slingshot. I failed to ask my Dad for one, since I always had an air rifle with an endless supply of pellets, and I fear this skill could become lost forever.
Right here is a tutorial th-cam.com/video/cm2XGRbW3SQ/w-d-xo.html
imagine getting old and people are like HEY RALPH, BEFORE YOU DIE CAN YOU GIVE ME YOUR KNOWLEDGE? YOU'RE GONNA DIE SOON. PLEASE STOP BEING SO SELFISH. lmao
@@Mindstangle It wouldn't bother me a bit. I pray that when my time comes, people somewhere will think I have gained some intimate skill or knowledge in my life they feel is worth passing on to others.
@@ralphcantrell3214 just have some empathy for older people, I bet nobody in your life comes up to you and says anything close to HEY BRO CAN I HAVE YOUR STUFF WHEN YOU INEVITABLY DIE SOON. It is like talking to a woman, at least make some small talk first and don't mention the implication. It shows that you are only thinking about your own personal gain, not the person. But you're not gonna agree, you're just gonna keep going around literally saying "IF YOU'RE NOT ALREADY DEAD, CAN I HAVE THIS? SINCE YOU WILL BE DEAD SOON"
@@Mindstangle Did your parents have any children that lived? I'm probably old enough to be your great grandfather, and I guarantee you nothing I said would have bothered any senior citizen on earth. Please grow up or shut up.
I LOVE TO HUNT WITH SLING SHOT'S, AND MY BLOW GUN. IT'S ALOT MORE CHALLENGING, BUT ALOT MORE FUN.
i bet you slay them trouser snakes every day...never come back empty handed do ya?
the reason why he doesnt "aim", is because he has mathematics embedded in his brain. he shoots when the trajectory starts a downward, and he has timed it perfectly which is a completely different skill, now add that, with him actually aiming at targets shows he has mastered the aiming, and timing of moving objects. which one is hard to master, but both, and useful in the same sense as hunting, or self defense. moving and non moving targets
It's too bad so few people today are learning through experience, and believing that reading a book or watching a video about something is the same thing.
That’s the America I want to get to know more about.
78 years old my first slingshot was made out of what's made out of a pretty Privet Hedge we slice tire tubes made them thin and we use for the pouch parts of our belt I made slingshots using a coat hanger we use the t's and the dry beans to shoot all the kids had slingshots probably about eight of us we had an apple orchard and would get a stick put an Apple at the end and fling the apples and have a war throwing apple with lingam onda para double edge ice skates and the rich lady in the back cut us a baseball field and we played baseball just like The Little Rascals Aloha from Hawaii be safe be happy I'm still healthy and I chugging this and every day for an hour on the island of kawaii chugging is two steps above walking
My grandfather made mine out of a forked stick and an old inner tube. I loved that thing. If you want to see more like this, check out the latest story.
If you need self-protection get yourself a slingshot people back off real quick when you pull out a slingshot and just talk that puppy they'll back off real quick
"Experience, You don't get this out of books" Or for our key board warrior nation, "you don't get this out of Facebook, tiktok, Instagram and social media rubbish" natural practice will get you there!
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"You don't get this out of books."
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Make sure that you don't tell your parents. It's like non filter cigarettes and a BB gun fight. My solution was a heavy jacket and hip boots. Had to go to the country store first and get some penny bubble gum and a NEHI soda .
.... since I was knee high to w fly's eye..😋
hes probarbly had like 30.000 hours of practice
You can see the tobacco can inside his front pocket
He chews tobacco in his mouth.?
@@royjohnson465 sure
@@lampodigenio8091
~Thank you, chewing tobacco 'might' cut a person's life short. Rufus Taft Hussey, born: March 12-1919, died: February 24-1994. He died at 74 years old. He was 66 years old when he appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" on January 23-1986.
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That's crazy and hilarious at same time bc it Proves Living Simply Will Keep Happiness and avoid Negativity and I say Hey Bless Their Hearts and Souls bc I loved seeing video from the 70s bc I was a small child then
Just like my Granpa James.
It boils down to if you don't hit it you won't eat. You will hit it every time.
Andy, this is great that you saved this footage over all these years. This was filmed a couple years before I was born but I’ve always had a keen appreciation for old timers and their knowledge and skills, so much to learn and so many stories to hear when you take the time (as you know) so thank you for posting this! I can’t wait to work my way through your other 130 videos, even 40+ years later this is quality content!
Thank you, Dick. I don't get anything out of posting these old stories. I just feel that the people should be seen and remembered. They are the stars.
That’s awesome 👏🏻. Alot of young people these days don’t respect wisdom and knowledge of elders, or older people at all really
Let me tip you off about the story I'll post tomorrow. The story is about one of the last rolling stores in Alabama. For decades they were a big part of the rural south but by 1973 there were only 2-3 left. I hope you will check it out.
@@georgiatraveler you copied and reposted part of an older video.
Why not have the entire video and acknowledge the original poster?
@@MasterYoist Hi, thank's for watching. We shot this story in January, 1978. Carolina Camera from WBTV also did a story with him the same year. We didn't use any of their footage. Over ten years we shot more than 1500 stories but I was only able to save 350. I'm posting therm because I feel the people deserve to be seen and remembered. I appreciate your comment because I know it gets confusing when there are several videos about the same person. I hope you will check out the channel because there are over 130 stories like this one.
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Andy, good on you for keeping the film masters of the stories for all this time and more recently having them scanned in (and uploading them to TH-cam). The quality is just superb. Absolutely loved it.
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@@georgiatraveler Oh, I know the pain of faithfully preserving these things. I for one am glad to finally ditch VHS and U-Matic etc cassettes as I finally digitise things. Trust you are film scanning at higher than 720p.
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@@georgiatraveler Already subscribed. This series is right up there with the re-scan of the classic news story of the exploding whale (and too much dynamite). Really loving it.
Slingshots are not good with kids using them to shoot at passing traffic.. ask me how I know.
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Thank you Dennis the Menace for making slingshots popular. I still have one.
Kkkkkkkll true
Takes skills to do that AND GOOD EYESIGHT! I'd like to know his diet! Maybe it's just genetics - I dunno. But I do know., Mr Hussey is awesome!
Not many like him anymore
Haha! That's great! I've seen some other videos of his but not this one! Which I could have met him!
I'm glad you liked it. It took about a half a day to film a story so we spent a long time with Rufus Hussey. He was a fantastic guy.
Let me tip you off about the story I'll post tomorrow. The story is about one of the last rolling stores in Alabama. For decades they were a big part of the rural south but by 1973 there were only 2-3 left. I hope you will check it out.
Nice video sir
Thank you for watching. Check out the other videos and you'll find more amazing people like Rufus.
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I had a friend, he saw a lizard, "right on the head he said" few seconds later I picked it up with a it's head smashed. He was accurate with sling shot too, we both got his wife pregnant even after she was diagnosed with some sort of no having kids illness 😁
INCREDIBLE Ability! Wow! Inspiring Thank you for sharing!
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I’ve seen this whole video whenever TH-cam started getting big years ago, dude literally shoots bugs off of his crops without hurting the plants... he’s Og as Og gets y’all
Almost as good as Elly May!
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Legend has it he is still holding his hand out today.
This is ridiculously stupid... this man didn't even aim ‼️
I tried this technique when I was 10....
It didn't go well at all‼️
I was so confident and forgot to check if anyone was nearby, and I found her. Cracked the side of her face 😳😖‼️
To this day I never knew her and prayed she didn't know my parents ‼️😳
That was 42 yrs ago...omg‼️🙄
Instinct shooting
He also cut down a tall blade of grass at like 40ft. Hitting the top, middle and bottom in a row. He’s…a machine.
He missed me three times
Crazy, he knows where it will go just by his positioning of the rock and sling, no eyeball aim required, his brain can see where it will go just through hand position.
Reminds me of Jackson from Saving Private Ryan. "If you was to put me and this here slingshot anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler with a clear line of sight sir... pack your bags fellas, war's over."
Super cool video.
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I'm not in his league, but I don't specialize like Mr. Hussy did. That said, my neighbor was throwing cans for me the other day, and I was hitting about 50%.
That's not to take from Mr. Hussy. I was raised by a trick shooter and have done some, mostly with a rifle, and I am genuinely impressed.
If his name wasn't already Rufus, I'd petition to have him posthumously legally named Rufus. Of course his name is Rufus.
They don’t make ‘em like him anymore.
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His grip is interesting. He's compensating for how the slingshot wants to crank your wrist back when you draw back on it. I wonder what he would have thought of a Wrist Rocket, like I had when I was a kid. I bet he would have appreciated that. Or maybe he would have laughed at it. :)
A Marksman is lowest u can get.
Expert
Sharpshooter
Marksman
Dont call urself a
Marksman
Cracking aim but I’m more impressed Clark Kent didn’t have to mysteriously disappear during this film
What bored farmers did in 1978. 😂😂
I saw this video years ago. My family and I were discussing it while we were shooting.
Now the video is getting reposted?
Why not show the rest of the video? You left out a lot of footage.
You didn't show the best part....he was knocking weeds down and asking the reporter which way he wanted the weeds to fall!
This reminds me of those books written back in the late 60's early 70's about how the older generation did things when they didn't have what was needed!
Born 1954, by 1962 I was making slingshots and knew how to use them accurately. It's 60 % gut and 40% training. Build one, get to know one, it will never let you down.
Spoken like a man who knows his slingshots. Thanks for watching.
@@georgiatraveler No where in your league, but I could take out hovering dogon flies at fifty feet on a good day, and never had bullies to worry about. 😉
.....👍👍
He said professional Marksman you know he's been doing that since he was 4 years old
TH-cam: "You haven't even thought about a slingshot for over a decade young man. Time to look at some slingshots."
“Well, you get this from experience. You don’t get that from the books” ain’t that the truth.
Sad this America has been destroyed. WWII veteran as well, if he only knew what he helped usher in...
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“Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.”
Guava branches is the best to make a slingshot and one could easily find Y shape branch fom guava tree. As kids we used to slingshot birds ,the best toy to have
I don't think there is anything more 'boy' than a slingshot. No apologies-- I like being a boy!
And yes, as an old man I still play with a slingshot.
What people don't know is anyone can carry a sling shot and it's legal. Practice your shot and it's quite.
This is how David peace be upon him defeated Goliath. That pure instinctive focus on accuracy that only comes after persistent patient practice.
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I'm taking up a new hobby! Thanks for the video.
Nowadays the only slingshot kids know about is the one in Angry Birds...
Also get yourself a whistle whistles nowadays will scare the heck out of you and you'll get everybody's attention
Back when you could dent quarters because they were probably still silver
Consarnit, dagnabbit ifn he don't beat all!!! Weedoggy!
Amazing what can be achieved when there is no "online"...
It's called instinctive aiming it's not hard just requires abit of time and practice.
Use to make mine out of broken Graphite tennis racquet's. Perfect.
For an expert he should know that's a catapult not a slingshot!😆🤣😂
I have a feeling this guy's cat never got pregnant! 😾😉
I wish I had one of the slingshots that he made...
I could sell you one 😊👍🏻
@@Pearlygates21 Yeah...me and everyone else that wanted one...lol
@@NMX777 I have 13 of his Shooters all with serial number and autograph :) took me 20 years to find them
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