Hello!
I'm Jeordie & I live in the Denver metro area. I grew up in Arvada, about 15 miles NW of downtown Denver, in what was then near the edge of farmland & wide open spaces. Any locals? I'd love to be able to have a plinking & design partner or a few.
My mother gave me my first sling at the age of 5 and I've been using slings off and on all of my life. I like to make different styles of slings, manufacture my own ammo (clay & lead, rocks are too irregular), study the mechanical physics involved (simple math, please- fps/release velocity, etc) and make diferent types of slings. My favorite casts are a bullwhip or javelin style overhand, figure 8 & underhand for shots @ rising birds.
My current projects are a shotgun styled sling, a one handed staff sling, kestrosphendone and making lead glandes cast after a golfcross ball. Does anyone have one to spare? I'm somewhat loathe to buy six of them just to make a mould.
(My reason for the golfcross glandes is the same reason that golf balls are no longer smooth- the dimples reduce drag effects.)