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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	a couple of pics Jul 13^th, 2006 at 5:16pm here is a site with some slingers on it (about half way down) www.skidmore.edu/.../TibetanPhotos/Nomads.html they are nice pictures, and show natice peoples using slings. they would possibly make nice additions to the gallery if chris would like to seek permission for the use of them. what do you think?
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Gard Senior Member Offline Yup, there are slingers in Norway too! Posts: 396 Norway Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #1 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 5:44pm The link doesn't work... Gard
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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #2 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 7:48pm that's a shame. i will have to try to find it again later. sorry
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Zwiebeltuete Descens Offline Fly! Angel, fly! Posts: 143 Germany, near Nuremberg Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #3 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 8:15pm No problem. http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/TibetanPhotos/Nomads.html Zwiebeltuete
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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #4 - Jul 13^th, 2006 at 8:20pm thanks so much zw. how did you do that?
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Re: a couple of pics
Reply #5 - Jul 14^th, 2006 at 2:40am

   Siguy,
   Thanks for bringing those pictures to our attention. Because the clothing is so voluminous it is difficult to see what these people are wearing at their belts, but at least two of the pictures clearly show
swords being worn. Also note that at least one of the slingers has a very long sling ( or so it seems to me, but I use a rather short sling. )
Interesting stuff!
   Zwiebeltuete, thanks for getting those links back for us! .......Dan

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Zwiebeltuete Descens Offline Fly! Angel, fly! Posts: 143 Germany, near Nuremberg Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #6 - Jul 14^th, 2006 at 5:08am Quote: thanks so much zw. how did you do that? I searched for 'site:www.skidmore.edu TibetanPhotos/Nomads.html' and got exactly one hit. Zwiebeltuete
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Gard Senior Member Offline Yup, there are slingers in Norway too! Posts: 396 Norway Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #7 - Jul 14^th, 2006 at 6:08am Cool pictures Siguy! It says it was an article about it in National Geographic? Which one was that that? If it isn't before 1965, then I should have it. Good job, Zwiebeltuete! Gard
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2323 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #8 - Jul 14^th, 2006 at 6:15am One of these days I'll head down to Tibet and meet those slingers in person! A new rail road just opened there connecting Tibet and mainland China last week. I'd have gone by now but as far as I know two passengers have died on the train already due to high altitude sickness and no stops in between .
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Matthias Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1418 Gatineau/Ottawa QC, Canada Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #9 - Jul 14^th, 2006 at 10:41am Wow - according to popular belief: do you think he's going for distance or accuracy? Matthias
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Reply #10 - Jul 14^th, 2006 at 11:04am

those guys look like they could go for distance and accuracy in the same shot. Shocked

but according to what we have pretty much determined in the forum is that the guy with the longer sling is probably going for distance and the guy with the shorter sling is probably going for accuracy.
but also what we know of shepherd and nomadic type peoples like those depicted usually says that they are going for accuracy, either to scare an animal back into the herd or to kill a predator.

perhaps it is really possible to acheive good accuracy with an exponentially long sling. ??? Roll Eyes

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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2323 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: a couple of pics Reply #11 - Jul 16^th, 2006 at 1:54am I think he is herding too!
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