I was down at the parking lot of my workplace slinging rocks at the ocean yesterday morning.  A couple walked by and were impressed with my range.  When I was down to my last rock the guy came up to me and asked how accurate I was.  There was a pink plastic bag floating about 160 yards away.  So I said to the guy "against the wind, pink plastic bag!" and let go with a figure 8.

Now, I am not that accurate at 160 yards.  I knew I could get within 15 yards or so of the target.  But the shot landed right on!  The bag sank straight down with the rock.  and it was my last rock too!  so I just acted cool and left, leaving the couple wide eyed.   

This is the stuff that legends spread from.

Hi Tint,

You are a legend yourself. All those videos! That car park must be pretty interesting place to visit.

"Not that accurate at 150m" you say. I don't practise for distance, but I can't even sling that far much less hit a little bag.

Godd Luck!

Aussieslinger

Wow.  That has got to be one of the most incredible shots anyone here has made.  Extremely impressive.  If somebody asked me about my accuracy I'd probably pretend to be out of rocks, or do something to spare myself the humiliation.  Good job!

Nice shootin Tex.Who says slings aren't that accurate. Man that just plain old kicks ass. I bet that shot was all that you thought about for the rest of the day. Gives me goose bumps

Yep had two of them in my life ..both were when I was in the military.
The first one we were doing a livefire with the 107mm mortar when some foreign observers came to watch us. One of the aiming points downrange was an old M-48 tank. While they were watching one of our rounds went through the open tank hatch and blew the turret clean off. we didn't know this untill the FO ( Forward Observers) informed of this fact afterwards.

The other one was our CO decieded to run his entire company through the gernade range. One of mine bounced and landed inside an old tire on the range sending it skyward.

Now for the sling I loaded a fist sized piece of sandstone and chuncked that thing 67 meters. Range wasn't so great but the rock was singing all the way
The othersling one was on my newly braided green Jutte sling I managed to send a rock about 100 meters into the treeline at my fathers house...There were some serious jawdropping when it occured mine included

Ok Gotta get back to work

Marc Adkins

lobohunter wrote on Jan 17^th, 2007 at 8:14pm:

CanDo wrote on Jan 17^th, 2007 at 2:56pm:


Out of a stroke of pure bad luck, I'd manage to send a rock an incredible distance through the forrest, and not even touch a single tree.   

160 yards with figure of 8 - that's damn impressive.
but I'm definitely with cando - I can hit any wood - despite the trees :-)

Tint, is that couple related to the place you work in? Do they already know what a sling is??