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how long do you like youre sling? (Read 7522 times)
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2 of my three slings are 99 cm from centre to tip and one of them, my shortest, is 74 cm. the first two are my distance slings and the smallest is my accuracy oriented sling. Overwhelmingly, I tend to go with either a helicopter throw angled slightly or an underhand release for distance.
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My distance sling is about 85 cm/33", and my accuracy sling is 50 cm/19" (Tint
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I only use two different slings, as I've cut many of the other's pouches to fix the two I use...
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I a read somwhere that the Balaeric slingers that worked for the romans had 4 slings the same three you were talking about Vincente and one that had a wire instead of a pouch. They had special ammo for the wire one, a lead bullet shaped in a oval little bit pointed at the ends with a notch all the way around the center. They would put the notch on the wire and, use these for picking off certain people like a sniper. I will try to find it again and get measurements and weights.
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Short from vingertips to elbow. Long from fingertips to shoulder. Really long fingertips to the other shoulder
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I usually sling with 80 cm long sling, but sometimes i have to sling with shorter ones, if i have lack of materials and i absolutely want to go slinging.
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I am starting to like longer slings more and more ever since I started using the pirouette style. My favourite length is about 6 feet long now!
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I would like to read about the baleric slinger to, where do you get all the info from, any tips.
Specialy about that sniper thing,
and my standard sling is about 61 cm.
longrange is about 1 meter.
Both folded pouch included.
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Ok I'm going to throw my lengths in.
I have made two slings and both of them turned out to be about the same length.
Folded they are 32 inches (80 cm)
now the pouch on the first one is only an inch and a half wide ( 3.5 cm)
the bigger pouch is 3 inches wide ( 7 cm) wide
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It is not how long you like your sling that count's but how well you use it
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It is not how long you like your sling that count's but how well you use it
spoken like a man who knows what to do with his sling
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It's not the length. It's the thickness.
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Let's get back to topic.
It all depends on what style I'm using. Short slings, 19 inches, is my favourite length for fig 8 and apache. 6 ft is what I like for pirouette.
5mm nylon ropes is the thinkness
. 8mm slings gave me the slinger's finger once.
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24 to 48 inches depending on whether I'm using my medical tape sling or my Tibetan yak/horsehair sling and either Apache style or figure 8.
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