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having grown up playing with seal skin slings since 5, I'm surprised none of what you said ever been mentioned or practiced in my Inuit culture. I only got serious about it in my teens when my grandfather showed me the proper way to swing. While round medium sized rocks are the most ideal choice to sling with, there are trick shots with flat disc like rocks and long stick like rocks. While it is true that shorter slings provide more accuracy, you gain muscle memory on what you consistently use. I like my slings to be no less than two feet long and I was starting to get more accuracy on much MUCH further targets over a block (sometimes much further with flat rocks) away and even lost sight of the rocks that went really far.
I noticed that you were spinning it around over your head numerous times before releasing it, that does not give you more power (it actually makes you more prone to have clumsy shots) than making a single swing which is how we shoot them. Just make sure there's nothing or nobody on the opposite side of what you're swinging with.
You made it sound like you need to go through intensive meditative marine HARDCORE training. For more effective improvement, don't take it as a training... Just do it because you enjoy it... It'll come naturally to you. Just remember that it is a weapon, mind your environment.
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That was remarkably thorough!
Greetings from a Greek slinger. For larger stones you may also try the so-called "Byzantine" style. If I learned anything from my shepherd father (who slung for a living when he was a child) it's that the size of the pouch (and the size of the ammo contained within) needs to be proportional to the length of the cords. The shorter the sling the smaller the stone they're meant to cast and the closer the range they're meant to be shot at.
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Because I’ve tried this, seeing him hit a bottle is like watching someone fly a little, or start a fire with their mind. It’s a freakin superpower. I’m amazed that people can get good enough at this to make it useful. David hitting Goliath intentionally was sufficient for miracle status, in my book. Killing him was just extra.
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I started with a sling my Grandpa made for me out of leather boot laces. I preferred my single shot .22Long Rifle but I usually burned up my weekly supply of ammo in one day.
I grew up on a farm/ranch and there were always plenty of ball bearings available from old worn out equipment. I got to be really accurate with the sling by the time I was seven or eight. I got lucky once and killed a full grown coyote and thousands of birds, rabbits and other small critters. I was on a pheasant hunt with several adult hunters when I was about ten and since I was out of ammo for my twenty two and 16 gauge shotgun I used the sling. I got the first bird of the day LOL. One of the Men was an Army vet that was caught in the Phillipines when the Japanese over ran the Island.. He said the Fillipnos used snares and slingshots to put meat on the menu. During my learning to master the sling I think I broke every glass window on the farm. It is a miracle I survived the wrath of my Dad!
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One great source of consistant ammunition is clay. When you live in an area that doesn't have rivers or rocks suitable for slinging, clay slingstones are the best thing.
You form them into balls or biconnical shapes and leave them to dry out in the sun over a day or so. It's the perfect target ammunition, so long as you don't get them wet. If you bake them in a kiln, you don't have to worry about them getting wet, but I don't have a kiln. A campfire might be able to bake them.
There's a big reason why virtually most cultures which used slings also used clay slingstones, particularly in Middle eastern regions during the Bronze and Iron age where sometimes stockpiles of as much as 10,000 clay slingstones have been found, in differing weights, with 30g slingstones being among the lightest. There are also Celtic fortifications with a similar number of slingstones found.
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"Among all this people there were 700 chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss." Judges 20:16.
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@RocKnight11
5 years ago
I like the very humble brag... "After a year of constant training with the sling, I am at the skill level of a small child"
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