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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #90 - Apr 13^th, 2007, 8:24pm Ok, I read ya. (it's proprietary tech) Yes Dale, it was pretty pungent. Bada Bing! Get it? Pungent! Just keepin it real. You old rainbow warrior you.... TS
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Posts: 1581 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #91 - Apr 13^th, 2007, 8:28pm Ouch!
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Posts: 1581 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #92 - Apr 17^th, 2007, 5:05pm Hey! I think I just found where Matthias got the idea for this compound sling! It is in a post from a member by name of Me, almost two years ago, in this post. Matthias's response, in the next post following, shows that the Idea had been planted!
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Yahweh Bless you in Yeshua Interfector Viris Spurii Matthew 11:25-30 Posts: 1700 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #93 - Apr 17^th, 2007, 11:10pm Where is ME these days....he was a font of ideas, that one! TS
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kelthen Descens Eyay yesu domine... whack! dona eais requiem... Posts: 185 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #94 - Jun 15^th, 2007, 4:08pm i need to get on more. anyway, i didnt have time to read the whole seven pages but do you think it could be adapted to shoot two bullets on one sling? maybe a high lopb then a straight shot? it would be heck to aim though.
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9049 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #95 - Oct 3^rd, 2007, 8:35am just thought I'd bring this one back for the slew of new members we've had recently :-) The future of slings ? or just another way to dislocate your shoulder ? You decide :-)
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Re: Compound Sling
Reply #96 - Oct 4^th, 2007, 9:10pm

I’ve been pondering this “compound sling” idea and I wonder if this would work:

Let the lower (closest to the slinger) sling pocket have the heavier weight sewn in and the top pocket or pouch free to launch the bullet. This may have been mentioned in one of the posts, but I got so confused reading them that I don’t remember.

If you do this, you must do a “recovery” so that the heavier weight doesn’t break you or someone near you. But if you can do a basic “wind up and wind down” with a standard sling, I don’t think this would be a problem.

Now: everybody tell me what I’m missing.

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Re: Compound Sling
Reply #97 - Oct 5^th, 2007, 12:13pm

you're not missing anything that's essentially the idea.
And dale - the initial principle was mine, sorry :-)

It's based on the fact that you can exert more of your muscle power on a slow throw with a heavy missile than you can with a fast throw with a light missile.
So the object is to take the energy put into the heavy weight at a relatively slow velocity and transfer it to a much higher velocity with a much lighter missile.

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Reply #98 - Oct 5^th, 2007, 2:57pm

Quote from curious_aardvark on Oct 5^th, 2007, 12:13pm:

you're not missing anything that's essentially the idea.
And dale - the initial principle was mine, sorry :-)

It's based on the fact that you can exert more of your muscle power on a slow throw with a heavy missile than you can with a fast throw with a light missile.
So the object is to take the energy put into the heavy weight at a relatively slow velocity and transfer it to a much higher velocity with a much lighter missile.

Whoever originated the principle - my recollection is that the truly original feature of this thread was Yurek's sliding mass.

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Re: Compound Sling
Reply #99 - Oct 5^th, 2007, 7:33pm

Quote from wanderer on Oct 5^th, 2007, 2:57pm:

Quote from curious_aardvark on Oct 5^th, 2007, 12:13pm:

you're not missing anything that's essentially the idea.
And dale - the initial principle was mine, sorry

It's based on the fact that you can exert more of your muscle power on a slow throw with a heavy missile than you can with a fast throw with a light missile.
So the object is to take the energy put into the heavy weight at a relatively slow velocity and transfer it to a much higher velocity with a much lighter missile.

Whoever originated the principle - my recollection is that the truly original feature of this thread was Yurek's sliding mass.

Folks, if we keep this up we're going to "high tech" ourselves back into the stone age. Grin

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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9049 Gender:	Re: Compound Sling Reply #100 - Oct 29^th, 2007, 10:30am Well the whole thing started 'cos I wanted some way of imparting more velocity to paintballs or other missiles too light to throw easily. Quote: my recollection is that the truly original feature of this thread was Yurek's sliding mass. Umm, the whole compound sling concept is pretty unique :-)
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Re: Compound Sling
Reply #101 - Oct 29^th, 2007, 8:36pm

Quote from curious_aardvark on Oct 29^th, 2007, 10:30am:

Well the whole thing started 'cos I wanted some way of imparting more velocity to paintballs or other missiles too light to throw easily.

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my recollection is that the truly original feature of this thread was Yurek's sliding mass.

Umm, the whole compound sling concept is pretty unique

Well - I stand by my statement Cheesy

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Re: Compound Sling
Reply #102 - Nov 12^th, 2007, 3:21pm

First off, my limited understanding of the concept of a Compound bow, is that it makes it more powerful, but most importantly more accurate. Standard Bows are limited to the size of their user, so you are limited by your height to the power you will get out of a standard bow. They can tell the height of people on the Marie Rose by the bows on it. The point being you can hold and aim a compound for a lot longer than a standard.

What if you used something like a skipping rope, (modern boxing ones can be weighted), or tubes with ball bearings to replace the stings. Giving you a sling that is weighted aroung the pouch. Would this not unable you to spin it faster, and give it more energy on release?

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MiXoNFLaSHeR Tiro Slinging Rocks! Posts: 17	Re: Compound Sling Reply #103 - Nov 12^th, 2007, 4:42pm Excellent idea. I do not quite understand the physics behind it but I do know how much that would hurt if you got hit from one of those babys. I wonder if you could go through a person with the right projectile.
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Re: Compound Sling
Reply #104 - Nov 14^th, 2007, 5:31am

minotaur a weighted pouch would enable you to sling light objects - but is a different concept entirely from the compound sling.

the basic idea is that you can safely put a lot more effort into a slow but powerful throw with a heavy weight than you can with a light weight. the compound sling takes the energy imparted to the heavy object and transfers it to a much lighter projectile that can then be thrown with a much higher velocity than would otherwise be possible.

I blame paintballs - as it's why I came up with the idea in the first place.
it took everyone else to work out how to do it :-)

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