*Took a look at Willeke's link list*

Yep, here it is: http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1060091896/9#9

I quit playing with flexable metal weapons when I had the head of a live flail misdirect and come straight back at my head.
Another problem with the chain ( I am assuming a light pet walking sort of chain here) is what you going to do about the loose end flying about at a realitively high velocity. I mean when ya accidently get smacked by a loose leather release knot it will definately sting a bit but a chain is going to seriously hurt.


Marc Adkins

lololololol wrote on Jan 13^th, 2007 at 1:29pm:

Oh, I never thought about that for some reason! It would certainly discourage me from making a sling out of metal, since even the hard-burnt ends on a nylon sling "pop" me and kill my hands after releasing a rock... I'd hate to imagine a metal chain swinging about and having to worry about getting popped by it every shot.

winkleried wrote on Jan 13^th, 2007 at 8:14pm:

but the release cord should be extremley light (not chain), and flexible, since the projectile has to unwrap it, after leaving the pouch.

so you get 3 materials in a single sling. anchor cord wich is light chain, pouch from chain maile, and light release cord.
problem: cords made from different materials tend to wrap around eachother, so there is no way you can rapid fire with it.

what you mean is I'm right :-)

The

sling I made with lead-cored line

behaves in much the same way as a lighter sling. Of course here we're talking about weighted cords as well as a a weighted pouch (mostly in the cords).

It does it make it much easier to throw "fluffy" objects. Even with a relatively dense/small glans, the cord drag becomes a big factor.

It feels very quick and controllable. Snappy. Long, light slings tend to lag the throwing mation a bit, which sometimes throws me off, and the cords are likely to get twisted. This one hangs there obediently, and "pulls back" against you hard enough to know where it is.

It doesn't (seem) to make any difference in range/power. The sling in this case probably adds 50-75% to the total mass of the system with my preferred size of rock.

It is significantly more dangerous to self than my other slings. The release cord comes around *fast*. My sling is designed to whip-crack, and it is tapered. A proper throw dumps most of the energy into the rock, and then the residual into the oncoiling cracking motion, and the sling falls mostly limp. It is when something goes wrong that you're likely to raise welts, and let's face it, there's no way to avoid something coming back at you that quickly.

I'd guess that with chain (evenly weighted) cords, you'd get a reflection off the tip that would make the release motion both violent and unpredictable. You can probably get the weighted effect much more safely by ony making the retention end out of chain? Of course it won't crack, but chain isn't the right material for this anyways.

Matthias

I have made a sling from 1/16 air craft cable  slip pouch with 1/8 inch plastic tubing on each side of the pouch worked as well as any other split pouch sling