Just found this again in my computer.
I aquired it from the web years ago but
don't know where or who should be attributed.
8)
How do you shoot it? Well, not like Darryl Hannah
did it in the movie Clan of the Cave Bear.
The sound effects were great but not the technique!
You do not whirl it around your head to build speed
then let fly. You will send the stone a long way.
... but which way?
I learned how to properly shoot one from a lady who
used to herd sheep as a girl in Utah and Wyoming.
When she saw the sling her eyes lit up and she grabbed it.
She claimed to have killed many coyotes with a sling.
She looked to be about eighty years old and was small
and frail. It was easy to see that she had been a rather
small girl and when she saw the doubt in my eyes she
grabbed me and we headed out the back door into the alley.
I was just getting my bearings when a garbage can exploded
about 100 feet away. There was granny rubbing her right shoulder
but with a great big satisfied grin on her face.
Her technique really surprised me. It was just one overhand swing!
She tossed the pouch with the rock in it forward and to the left
a little while at the same time she reached forward to the right
a little with her right hand just enough to take up the slack.
Then she brought her right arm down, around and over
just like a big league pitcher.
She told me that doing it the same way every time
was the only way you could get accurate.
If a big league pitcher can throw a ball ninety miles
per hour then I'll bet a good man with a sling could
at least double that speed.