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Reply #15 - Mar 6th, 2007 at 7:22pm
 
Pre-internet Cheesy probably 1962... sisal twine for cords and canvas pouch ... I wasn't very good. Didn't understand the mechanics involved..... underhanded casting  but using a rock that was  too large for the pouch so it would drop out almost any where in the windup (duck and cover) ... plus trying to use the windup to generate more speed for the cast. Sometimes the rock would go in the general direction of my target. I was good enough to hit the broad side of a barn or the ground ...but not always in that specific order...
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Reply #16 - Mar 9th, 2007 at 4:41pm
 
[quote author=curious_aardvark link=1173038735/0#10 date=1173200823]so apart from me - who started slinging before the internet ?
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My dad made me my first sling when I was still a small boy, about 50 years ago, but I never really used it.  

Did my first serious slinging about ten years later ie. in my early teens. My older sister married a guy, recently arrived from Poland, who showed me how to sling underhand. I knew that overhand was possible but whenever I tried it the stone went straight into the ground only a few metres in front of me. The last time I remember slinging I must have been in my mid twenties. I either mislaid my sling or threw it away and had not used one for many years. So much for pre-internet days.

Then sometime approx. a year ago a work associate was extolling the virtues of "Google". According to him, there is no subject so obscure that Google won't have a reference for it. I decided to try it out on "sling and slinging".  JACKPOT! Slinging.org is first and best cab on the rank.

Now I understood why my previous feeble attempts at overhand were such a failure. The sling was way TOO LONG. Many thanks to those who put instructional videos on the site; especially Dave Taylor. With his Greek overhand he always hit that bucket he was aiming at. I tried to copy his style. Success! I could actually hit things and send a golf ball the length of a soccer field.

I have since tried other styles and generally use a modified tennis serve style.



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Reply #17 - Mar 11th, 2007 at 2:12pm
 
First time was when i found a copy of Mr. Ballards article in my mothers copy of the Mother Earth News. This would have been early to mid 1980's. Had all sorts of problems with the figure eight style shown there.

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kelthen wrote on 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 #18 - Mar 11th, 2007 at 2:30pm
 
All i can say is that it was painful. Shocked
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Reply #19 - Mar 11th, 2007 at 11:07pm
 
My main problem was using ammo that was way too light

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[quote author=aussieslinger link=1173038735/15#16 date=1173476472][quote author=curious_aardvark link=1173038735/0#10 date=1173200823]so apart from me - who started slinging before the internet ?
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Now I understood why my previous feeble attempts at overhand were such a failure. The sling was way TOO LONG. Many thanks to those who put instructional videos on the site; especially Dave Taylor. With his Greek overhand he always hit that bucket he was aiming at. I tried to copy his style. Success! I could actually hit things and send a golf ball the length of a soccer field.

I have since tried other styles and generally use a modified tennis serve style.



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Reply #20 - Mar 13th, 2007 at 6:12am
 
I made my first sling four or five years ago while attending an art class.
One day the teacher was sick and as a result noone was doing anything, so in a moment of inspiration
i cut two pieces of thin leather about 50 cm long/1 cm wide and sewed them on a small square piece of slightly thicker leather.
I dident make a finger loop just held it between my fingers and slung away.
I nearly killed myself with the first couple of throws slinging straigt up or barly missing the back of my own head during the windup, but eventually to my great joy i hit a roof of a small outhouse knocking a piece of the grassy earth it was covered with. i have been slinging on and of ever since Smiley
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Reply #21 - Mar 21st, 2007 at 6:21pm
 
  I thought I was new to slinging but I recently looked at an old book in my library which describes a sling I made 30 years ago.  After 5 loops (6" long") are made you begin a sheepshank but tie an overhand knot and place the end of the cord through all five loops and pull tight.  Repeat at other end.  I did not use it much 30 years ago.  The sling pictured here works well in the few times I have used it and a golf ball did not slip through the lines of the pouch.  I was not using full force. The name of the book is "Whittlin', Whistles and Thingamagigs" ISBN 0-8117-1882-2.  Tony
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Reply #22 - Mar 21st, 2007 at 7:23pm
 
My first sling was made of the cheapest leather that could possibly be found, but I just played around as a kid. A few years back I found Jim Burdine's site and from that slinging.org as well. Now I throw 30 golf balls a day at a target for accuracy and then lob 15-20 different size and shape rocks to see how well I make adjustments with the random rocks.
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Reply #23 - Mar 21st, 2007 at 10:22pm
 
Way back around 1965...  I was a young lad of 18 who had just joined the army, and was stationed in Germany.  I had always been fascinated with weapons, and had read Tunis' "Weapons" with descriptions of slings.  I made my first one out of a leather thong and the "tongue" from an old combat boot.

My first few tries were pretty sad; into the ground, up overhead....but eventually I got pretty good.
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Reply #24 - Mar 24th, 2007 at 9:49pm
 
'bout 1952 at Waterton International Peace Park in Canada (definately pre-internet... pre a lot of other things too).  Dad taught me but didn't learn to hold and control the patch at the start of a throw until the late 80's.  Always been fascinated by the power of the thing (how far I could chuck a stone).  After the 80's amazed at how accurate the silly thing can be...
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