TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT
What do you get when you combine one of the greatest industrial advances in history with a healthy dose of Bart Simpson–style evil genius and a forked stick? You get one of the most underrated members of the survivalist arsenal: the humble slingshot.
When Charles Goodyear patented his process for vulcanizing rubber in 1844, he solved the puzzle of making “India rubber” into a stable material that could handle temperature fluctuation without melting or cracking. He also paved the way for the manufacture of high-quality commercial rubber goods like inner tubes. By the
