but you can load it up with big game ammo. lobohunter made sling ammo that could take down a deer. also i am positive that a lead gland could take down bigger ammo. You could take out a tank with a sling as long as you have the proper ammo for it.

I have hunted with a sling, I shot, killed, and ate 3 ducks and a rabbit. I know I would starve if I had to depend on the sling for my food, but to say you can't hunt with it is just stupid. The sling is a weapon thats what weapons do. Most people in todays world are to lazy and expect instant gratification, that's why they don't get the concept of the sling. That's also why you will never buy one at walmart or find one in a box of cracker jacks.

MammotHunter an  atheist who quotes the bible which by default he must think as fiction. Douglas_The_Black says the sling is an artist weapon. Giving martial artist there do is there really such a thing.
 
Just because Lobohunter made sling ammo that could take down a deer. Does not mean that ammo can and will. It also seem by default we are acknowledging the inaccuracy of the sling by not mentioning small game any more

No, I said I refer to the bible, I never said I quoted it. I refer to the DaG story because most americans (if your current government is any standard) are christians and would better grasp the allusion to a biblical story than a historical tyrade on the differences between slings and slingshots.  And though I do believe probably upwards of 98% of the stuff contained therein to be fiction or allegorical, I do think there are certain aspects which may hold relevence or truth, at least in concept if not execution. And thanks, Matthias, for setting me straight on the statistics for global religion. It seems I've had my figures mixed up. And what do you mean we've stopped mentioning small game? Didn't Markmyster just mention having taken down 3 ducks and a rabbit?  
I suppose your next absurd theory is going to be regarding the lack of power behind an atlatl dart, right?

the atlatl is one of my favorte ranged weapons. I wasent much impressed with it untill i threw the blunt dart at a wood target, then i was impressed.

here is that movie i was talking  about.  
 
http://www.slinging.org/12.html

i agree completly that you can hunt almost any game with a sling and good sized ammo. anything from a bird to a medium sized deer is a whole lot of animals for the picking. i am fairly accurate with my sling but i still haven't hit anything yet.  
M.H. And the next absurd theory should be Goliath was actually a midgit and David was a woman. 8)
i am a bit slow, but what is an atlatl?
Tito