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Message started by Neander97 on Apr 29th, 2009 at 5:33pm

Title: 1870 Publication
Post by Neander97 on Apr 29th, 2009 at 5:33pm
Don’t if anyone is interested, but I found this in Google Books.  Click on the link and then search the book for “sling” and a few items on slings and sling stones will be listed


Edward T. Stevens, Hon. Curator of the Blackmore Museum.  FLIINT CHIPS. A GUIDE TO PRE-HISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE COLLECTION IN THE BLACKMORE MUSEUM, SALISBURY (London: Salisbury : Brown And Co., And F. A. Blake, 1870).
http://books.google.com/books?id=HX0IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA302&dq=sling&ei=RsP4ScDyHoncygTfzYGbBQ#PPR3,M1

Title: Re: 1870 Publication
Post by Timothy Potter on Apr 29th, 2009 at 7:09pm
An interesting resource. Thanks for sharing it.

Has anyone tried one of the stick-sling/ribbon-sling combinations mentioned on pages 303-304?
It sounds like a less-powerful version of a staff-sling.

-Timothy Potter

Title: Re: 1870 Publication
Post by winkleried on Apr 29th, 2009 at 11:58pm
Timothy,

I have this book on my hard drive. A ribbon sling is just another name for a hand sling. And I belive Slingbadger has done some work with the Stick sling that this author mentions

The Stick Sling/Ribbon Sling hybrid is nothing more than the standard Staff-sling (Fustbalus) that some of our members use (I'm one of them) and talk about from time to time.


Marc Adkins


Timothy Potter wrote on Apr 29th, 2009 at 7:09pm:
An interesting resource. Thanks for sharing it.

Has anyone tried one of the stick-sling/ribbon-sling combinations mentioned on pages 303-304?
It sounds like a less-powerful version of a staff-sling.

-Timothy Potter


Title: Re: 1870 Publication
Post by Timothy Potter on Apr 30th, 2009 at 10:13pm

winkleried wrote on Apr 29th, 2009 at 11:58pm:
The Stick Sling/Ribbon Sling hybrid is nothing more than the standard Staff-sling (Fustbalus) that some of our members use (I'm one of them) and talk about from time to time.

It sounded to me like the hybrid sling mentioned in the book had the stone held between the pouch and the stick. It would seem to work something like a hammer with a selectively detachable head. The staff slings I have seen look more like a normal hand sling on the end of a stick, with the stone held in the pouch only, not against the stick.

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