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Mar 4th, 2007 at 3:05pm
 
when was the first time you used a sling? my first time was when i was about five and my dad made me a cloth sling to throw water balloons with.
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Reply #1 - Mar 4th, 2007 at 6:11pm
 
For the first time I used sling as a sling only last summer, so at the age of 20... but I remember myself in my childhood casting big things with imrovised slings, or sometimes just attaching cord (or anything else that was near) and throwing like in hammer throwing
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Reply #2 - Mar 4th, 2007 at 7:11pm
 
Scouts:  circa 1950.  Told to stop by scoutmaster for fear of injury to others nearby.  As I look back, he was absolutely correct; although, at the time I remember being mifted.  Slinging was a skill I never fully developed until much later in life.  Somewhere in the middle, I used the skill quite often tossing army canteens and pyramid sinkers/bank sinkers attached to messenger lines for erecting HF antennae.  Worked very well getting dipoles high into the pines.  Using the skill alot more since retirement.  Can't think of a better way to get outdoors and stay in shape, chasing golf & tennis balls.
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Reply #3 - Mar 5th, 2007 at 10:20am
 
Just started slinging 2 months ago....thanks to this site!
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Reply #4 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 2:15am
 
Close to 2 years now. Just got a feeling to make a sling one day and don,t ask why.

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Reply #5 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 5:04am
 
I read the word "Zwille" somewhere in December, wondered what that is (never heard the word before) and looked it up on Wikipedia. It is the german word for slingshots. From there it was just a few links to slings and to Slinging.org. A few days later I braided my first sling. That was in december.
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Reply #6 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 5:16am
 
A few months ago I followed a link on the Wikipedia article on trebuchets to the article on slings, then made my first that night. 'Course it wasn't much good  Roll Eyes, and I've thrown it out, though I regret that now.
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Reply #7 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 6:10am
 
been thinking about this, now I'm going out again in daylight.

I reckon I made my first sling (denim with leather shoelaces) about 20 years ago - could have been a bit longer but not much. When that died I probably left it for 10 years or so before starting again with a leather pouch (leather acquired at a gamekeepers fair). Then the shoelaces died and there was another break till recently when I've been slinging fairly consistently for about 4 or five years.

It sounds like a long time but I can assure you the older you get the faster time passes.
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Reply #8 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 7:50am
 
The first time I sling, an old window pane broke...(lucky)

I was using a small leather slingshot pouch to sling small stones using the helicopter style.
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Reply #9 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 9:51am
 
21/2 years ago, about.  I had been thinking about some kind of non-firearm weapon, but I didn't want to spend money on a bow and I didn't have the skills to make one.  I thought about making a sling, but didn't know how.  Googled "sling" and eventually found Jim Burdine's web site, and from there I found Slinging.org, and Dan Bollinger's and Victor Escobar's instructions on how to braid a sling.  I followed the instructions and got hooked.
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Reply #10 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 12:07pm
 
so apart from me - who started slinging before the internet ?
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Reply #11 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 12:25pm
 
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Reply #12 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 12:37pm
 
read about slings in various fantasy books over the years and one day last october i decided to look it up on the net. on doing so i found this website and here i am today with two slings, another half made and one more in the pipeline Grin. now all i need is for the weather to sort it's self out so i can get some proper sling time in! first time i slinged a stone i almost broke my friends car wind shield ,which was behind me! Embarrassed Grin
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Reply #13 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 3:07pm
 
Without the encouragement of knowing there are other people doing this, and showing how, I never would have started slinging.  And without the 'net, I would never have met such people as I have met here.

Of course, when I was a child I read about Robin Hood, and pestered my father into getting me a bow (and he taught me to use it safely).  Had I been French instead of American (UnitedStatesian?), and watched Thierry la Fronde, I might perhaps have learned to sling instead.  But that's not the way it worked out.
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Reply #14 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 5:50pm
 
I did watch Thierry, but I still did not make a sling till I found a link to my own site here.
(I watch where the links end up, did get me to more nice sites.)

My story from there is somewhere on this forum already.
http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1108845459/0#0

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