We here in Northeast PA , were more proficient with home made sling shots, l usually made it out  of a crook from a branch of a  tree  and an old tire inner tube some string and a worn out tongue out of an old shoe, don't laugh , i'm serious ,  later when we started collecting popbottles and cashing them in for change did we advance to a production model. we were like the U.S. ArmedForces  over seaswe adapted and improvised .

  I'm from the old school