Right.. Firstly. I would like to say that I attempted to make a sling, with anything that I had in the house. This was a spur of the moment thing and therefore no preperation was made whatso ever.
My sling is very basic and the material I used as a pouch is quite embarrasing
But! Because we are on the forums and I am on the internet typing to a global slinging community. There is no need for me to be embarrased.
Okay, so as I mentioned above, this was a spur of the moment thing.
Today, I woke up 7:00am Sunday 25th Febuary went downstairs to the sowing kit and pulled out two lengths of string. One piece of string was not long enough therefore I had to cope with those two pieces. They are about 5mm long and are both different types of strings. One is white in colour and is I would think a simple cotton piece. The other was black and I'm not too certain on the material.
I needed a pouch... This is the embarrasing part. I had no idea, what to use in my house. And Yes. I am fully aware that when I finish typing this post, many users will come up with loads of great house items that can be used as a pouch. All I can say back to those people are... "DOH!"
I walked back into my room and noticed that there was an eye mask on the floor (used in planes to block out light and helps people go to sleep). Thats right... I used the eyemask as a pouch. I cut the elastic off, and poked two holes on both sides.. using the simple basic guide on this website I knotted it and that was it.
The weather was absolutely appalling and it was pouring till about 4pm. When 4pm struck, I went into my backgarden afraid to go out of my house to try this monstrousity. I peeked left and right to make sure my neighbours werent looking and picked up the nearest most rounded rock and let it fling, aiming for the tree on the other side.
Not bad! Hit about half a metre away from my intended target. I flinged a few more. I was aware that the problems occured in that the pouch was quite big, the rocks I was using were relatively small and not rounded and obviously, because the pouch wasn't a pouch.
Then I picked up this rock, this sounds silly but it felt special. It was nice in size, and was relatively rounded for a rock. I had this instant feeling that I would hit.
Swing. Swing. Waduoop! It had hit.. Woopee!!!! I was impressed. However, I miss that rock
. I went looking for it, but it was nowhere to be seen.
This was just an experiment and thanks to aussieslinger I will soon get a pouch worthy of trying.
Okay. I think I am ready for the comments to come.. Don't laugh too hard, okay?