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| 1 | General / Other Topics / Re: I am bored. Anyone else? on: Today at 5:14am |
| Started by squirrelslinger | Post by Intifada | |
| Whenever I'm bored I soon realise I just can't be bothered to do anything, unless I'm waiting for a bus and then I really am bored and miserable. But even then I just get on my phone and look at the random article feature on Wikipedia to learn things I would never normally be interested in. Sometimes, at home, it just seems like hard work to choose between the abundance of things that surround us to keep us entertained. Here's my list, thought of as I write:
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| 2 | General / Other Topics / Re: Looting at Apameia, in Syria on: Today at 3:46am |
| Started by Thearos | Post by _kava_ | |
| Quote: This just pissed me off as much as the extremist scumbags in Mali who destroyed the Sufi saints tombs and Mud Mosques, or the U.S using the ruins of Ur as a parking lot for its occupation vehicles. The looting of the Cairo Museums during the Arab spring was heinous also but the Taliban blowing up the Buddhist stupas in Afghanistan I think tops the list of desecration of historical sites in the last few decades. Torture is abhorrent, but that said id use those who desecrate humanities historical sites as human targets for slinging practice Tongue Absolutely. This kind of behavior is sickening, and really pisses me off. They should be used for tameshigiri practice--or better yet, to test the effects of [replica] ultralight lead glandes from antiquity, vs more common 2 oz ammo. At least then they'd be contributing to history in a positive way, instead of permanently destroying priceless information/artifacts/strata for meager nickels and dimes... Recently the Mayan Temple of "Noh Mul" has been turned into road gravel by a construction company. http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/no-more-noh-mul-contrac tor-bulldozes-mayan-temple These people are F*cked! They don't deserve to have these ancient relics of mankind's legacy in their countries. Do they know no shame? or is destroying national treasures and indigenous heritage a matter of concern for first world people? |
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| 3 | General / Trading Post / Re: Free Rocklaric slings on: Today at 2:39am |
| Started by squirrelslinger | Post by mauser_lover | |
| I know it has been a while since the last post on this thread, but do you still have any slings to give away? | |
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| 4 | General / Trading Post / Re: MORE FREE SLINGS FOR BEGINNERS on: Today at 2:10am |
| Started by slingingrat | Post by mauser_lover | |
| Does anybody still have slings that they want to give away? I just started, about two weeks ago, and have been trying to make a decent sling, but I never slung (slang?) before, and would like to look at and use one that was made by somebody who knows what they are doing! If I need to send postage or anything, please pm me, I will get back to you as fast as possible! | |
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| 5 | General / Other Topics / Re: I am bored. Anyone else? on: Today at 12:56am |
| Started by squirrelslinger | Post by Masiakasaurus | |
| Read a book. I'm reading Multiply by Francis Chan, if you're into Christian eschatology with a self help bent and need a recommendation. I'm also reading the Humanity's Fire series by Michael Cobley, if you like classic Space Operas. | |
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| 6 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging on: Yesterday at 10:47pm |
| Started by CanDo | Post by monoid | |
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| 7 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Shotgun Technique on: Yesterday at 10:39pm |
| Started by SchlrFtrRkMystc | Post by Lugh-Lamhfada | |
| Quote from squirrelslinger on Yesterday at 8:34pm: Quote from Timu on Yesterday at 6:25pm: Just be careful! Those wabbits are weasely! I like rabbits. I only have a vendetta against squirrels. The day squirrels start slinging back at you is the day you have a vendetta. |
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| 8 | General / Trading Post / Re: Homepage Sling. on: Yesterday at 10:18pm |
| Started by Sicanian | Post by Pikåru | |
| Chamorro Sling | |
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| 9 | General / Other Primitive Weapons / Re: My handmade custom knives on: Yesterday at 10:14pm |
| Started by Mrn31 | Post by Bill Skinner | |
| Nice work. | |
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| 10 | General / Other Primitive Weapons / Re: New set of Arrows! on: Yesterday at 10:12pm |
| Started by Dan | Post by Bill Skinner | |
| Is that a two or three feather fletch? Nice work, by the way. Have you started knapping yet? | |
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| 11 | General / Other Topics / Re: I am bored. Anyone else? on: Yesterday at 10:09pm |
| Started by squirrelslinger | Post by Bill Skinner | |
| Start braiding slings. Look up some historical use of slings and post it. Make a loom and start making Tut style pouches. Make some of the 8 strand pouches for friends or as gifts to get people into slinging. That took all of 15 seconds to think up, it actually took longer for me to type... |
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| 12 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Shotgun Technique on: Yesterday at 10:05pm |
| Started by SchlrFtrRkMystc | Post by Rat Man | |
| Steel ball bearings might work but I don't think slinging broken glass at animals is a great idea. Glass lacks the weight to take out a critter. If you did hit one you'd probably just injure it needlessly. Even if it did work, would you really want to shoot broken glass into an animal you were going to eat?? | |
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| 13 | General / Other Topics / Re: Floridian slingers, fend off the invasion ! on: Yesterday at 9:54pm |
| Started by Caldou | Post by Rat Man | |
| In Korea they use human feces for fertilizer. They haul it around in trucks that we used to call "Honey Wagons." You could smell one for a mile off if you were downwind. In the Spring the entire countryside would stink to high heaven. In America we used it here until the 1920s or 30s. We stopped because we feared the practice would start an epidemic. I've read that these days such human waste fertilizer could be processed so that no diseases would be spread. Someday we may have no choice but to use it. | |
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| 14 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging on: Yesterday at 9:53pm |
| Started by CanDo | Post by Pikåru | |
| Quote from Lugh-Lamhfada on Yesterday at 9:46pm: That is beautiful pikaru, how does it throw? Is it a tunguskan sling? I think I have seen similar looking slings in museum pics of siberian slings. I wish I knew the exact region, especially if it was for sure Siberian. I have a few museum pics that I used to reproduce this one while adding my own artistic interpretation to it. Since I made it today, I've not thrown with it yet. I've swung it around a few times much to the distress of my cat; I'm assuming it'll throw well. I'll know before tomorrow's end... Thank you Lugh-Lamhfada. Love your work. |
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| 15 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging on: Yesterday at 9:46pm |
| Started by CanDo | Post by Lugh-Lamhfada | |
| That is beautiful pikaru, how does it throw? Is it a tunguskan sling? I think I have seen similar looking slings in museum pics of siberian slings. |
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| 16 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging on: Yesterday at 9:23pm |
| Started by CanDo | Post by Pikåru | |
| Russian Sling. Eight strands twisted cotton fiber with a leather pouch, finger loop and release tab. Visit my blog for more information. |
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| 17 | General / General Slinging Discussion / Re: Palestinian seat belt sling picture on: Yesterday at 9:14pm |
| Started by Lugh-Lamhfada | Post by Lugh-Lamhfada | |
| I think the knots are just where they have tied a number of lengths of shoelace together. Not the greatest sling ever made  |
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| 18 | General / Other Topics / Re: Looting at Apameia, in Syria on: Yesterday at 9:07pm |
| Started by Thearos | Post by Donnerschlag | |
| Quote from Lugh-Lamhfada on May 12th, 2013, 4:41pm: This just pissed me off as much as the extremist scumbags in Mali who destroyed the Sufi saints tombs and Mud Mosques, or the U.S using the ruins of Ur as a parking lot for its occupation vehicles. The looting of the Cairo Museums during the Arab spring was heinous also but the Taliban blowing up the Buddhist stupas in Afghanistan I think tops the list of desecration of historical sites in the last few decades. Torture is abhorrent, but that said id use those who desecrate humanities historical sites as human targets for slinging practice Absolutely. This kind of behavior is sickening, and really pisses me off. They should be used for tameshigiri practice--or better yet, to test the effects of [replica] ultralight lead glandes from antiquity, vs more common 2 oz ammo. At least then they'd be contributing to history in a positive way, instead of permanently destroying priceless information/artifacts/strata for meager nickels and dimes... See my avatar to see what face I'm making right now :p |
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| 19 | General / Other Topics / I am bored. Anyone else? on: Yesterday at 9:01pm |
| Started by squirrelslinger | Post by squirrelslinger | |
| The name says it all. I am very bored... and grim... I need something to cheer me up. Well, pretty much anything but bad stuff(illegal, inappropriate, or mean to another member.) -Squirrel (its been rainy around here...) |
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| 20 | General / Project Goliath - The History of The Sling / Re: Recent Masters thesis on slinging on: Yesterday at 8:59pm |
| Started by David Morningstar | Post by squirrelslinger | |
| IMO too light of ammo(e.g under 100 grams) hurts my arm, as my greek style is powerful enough that if I don't have heavy enough ammo, it whips my elbow and arm, and hurts a lot. |
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