I was slinging a 5 oz lead fishing weight (to which I had attached a 10" length of red plastic stripping so I could track it and locate it in tall grass) for the other day. As it turns out, it actually only weighs 4.5 oz, which is just about perfect for a sling glande, and I was throwing in a small field, next to which there was a baseball team practicing. I couldn't throw very far, at risk of hitting the baseball team in the next field, but using light, lobbing throws I was getting the sinker flying out of the sling and getting about 60-70 yards, one shot of which actually buried itself in the packed dirt field and had to be dug out with the aid of a sharp stick. So, the next day, a library patron came in and asked me if I had seen Troy. Told her I had, and it was better than Alexander (4 hours of words!)but Alexander did have slingers in it, which I, as a slinger, appreciated. She looked puzzled and said "slinger? Like *motion of whirling sling over the head* kind of sling?" Yeah, exactly! I said. She looked at me kind of strangely and said, "You must mean in a past life, right?" No, I told her, this one. She said "I didn't know there were people still do that!" So I laughed and said "More of us than you might think."

You should have given her a demo.

There are still archers, arn't there? And last I checked, people were willing to pay alot of money for certain smelly, living, out-dated modes of transportation.

whenver i mention slings to anyone that i haven't already introduced them to say "what's that?"  i then pull out my sling, ramble off some statistics, and tell them to come to this site.  i sometimes even make slings for people if i have a string handy.

Yeah, I'm a librarian. And not the bifocal glasses pushed up the nose, button the shirt up to my chin, hair tied in a bun female librarian either. I'm the punk-rock/viking metal listening, 22 year old male librarian that went into the library to meet cute girls (mission accomplished!) and stayed because the pay is good and I like books, who also happens to be a primitive weapons/survival enthusiast. And I think I may have gotten my friend in Colorado to join the site soon. I was talking to him recently about how I sent a 5 oz lead weight drilling 4" into the ground  and he mentioned that he wanted to build a sling, so naturally, I sent him the link to our how to guide section and told him, "welcome to slinging.org!" He was silent for a second and finally said "this is really awesome!"

i like your logic houndog

Sounds awesome. I had my dad fill a bunch of doubled balloons (I couldn't tie the balloons shut). He made them so big that they would just plop out as I wound up, or they'd release too early. It was a disaster.

She actually got my sling once and discovered the use of water balloons + slings... She was flinging them at me AT THREE IN THE MORNING!!!!!!