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I thought the idea was that the laws of aerodynamics would ensure that the glandes will travel point first? I thought that after having flown a while, the glandes would stabilize with one point ahead, since this is the orientation with the least air resistance. I think it would be very difficult to ensure that the glandes leave the pouch traveling point-first.

I fire off irregularly-shaped rocks, and the elongated ones will stabilize "point" first if I get a decent cast.  I've been throwing overhand, and not every cast would keep the stone in the air long enough for this to happen.  If anybody has any techniques for a more stable spin at the point of launch for an overhand cast (I know techstuff advocates modifications to the sling, but I'm a bit of a traditionalist), I think I'd get more range.  Even on the decent casts, the stone has to fight the air until it does stabilize, which has to be slowing it down. 

I recently began playing around with other types of casts, and the underhand puts my rocks about 10% further out.  I thought it was a body mechanics thing, but maybe I need to pay attention to the spin at the point of launch.

Hmmm,  that's how I do it, too, but I get lots of wobble coming out of the pouch with an overhand cast.