MammotHunter
Interfector Viris Spurii
Offline
Give me a rock, a sling, and give me some room
Posts: 1020
virginia, for now
Gender:
|
My experiences are just the opposite. Most people I meet while I'm slinging are fascinated by it, and I have already taught three people how to sling on one little beach area, alone. They all seem to have come away with a lot of new found respect for a primitive weapon after I teach them how to use it and demonstrate how powerful it can be. One fisherman saw me take off a good sized chunk out of the trunk of a dead tree with a glancing shot and I heard him mutter "Good god.." and another guy said the same thing my dad said the first time he ever saw me hurl a rock way out, which was "Holy s***!" I think a lot of people are surprised by the potential shown from a weapon that most long ago cast off as useless and outmoded. Which brings me to an interesting point. In military jargon, any form of low-tech warfare, I learned recently, is dubbed "sling and stone" warfare or "sling and stone fighting" no matter what weapons are actually used. We're the figurehead for all primitive combat!
|