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Sora Junior Member Offline I'm slinging in the rain... Posts: 65 Hellgium Gender:	How hard can you hit something with a sling? May 6^th, 2007 at 5:41am Well, I'm quite new to slinging and I just made my first sling and when i was slinging with winecork sized stones i was aiming at a wooden kind of wall about 2 inches thick and from a distance of like 25 m i just threw through it So how hard can you hit something with a sling? and from how far with what kind of amunition?
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2323 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #1 - May 6^th, 2007 at 6:37am Welcome Sora, You might want to check this thread out: http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1178169061/0#0
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #2 - May 6^th, 2007 at 8:00am Many of us have done serious damage with well thrown shots. Breaking cinder blocks is fairly common as is going through several layers of plywood. I think though that the best shot I heard of was of a fellow shattering a cast iron plate with a slung shot.
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Reply #3 - May 6^th, 2007 at 10:05pm

I killed a fox years ago with a railroad bed rock that caved in the ribs, broke the front shoulder and I think broke thre lower neck. It was dead when I got to it. When I skinned it out there was a HUGE bruse over those areas. The stone never broke the skin. The fox was around 75 +/- yards away. Just luck on my part.

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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1945 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #4 - May 10^th, 2007 at 12:46pm in the same respect I have found the bones of nutria I have killed with a stone just completly shattered
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Lathron Ex Member	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #5 - May 16^th, 2007 at 6:39am i broke head-sized limestone rock in two with egg sized stone from about twenty yards once
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #6 - May 18^th, 2007 at 7:12am Actually if you take the thread title literally and get a heavy duty sling like my tibetan job and load it with a 2lb rock and swing it round your head and just hit something with that (not actually slinging) it'd be as good as sledge hammer :-) So yeah I could hit stuff really hard with a sling :-)
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1581 California, USA Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #7 - May 18^th, 2007 at 3:27pm Actually, if you take the title of this thread really literally, you cannot do much damage at all. I could raise a welt, and if I hit just right I might put out your eye (or my own, if I was too klutzy), but a patch of leather just does not pack all that much wallop.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #8 - May 19^th, 2007 at 11:16am depends how big a knot you tie in the sling first :-) With a long sling you could tie a real big knot leave about a foot and have a seriously effective cosh. You just have to think a bit creatively :-) (and having a disturbed mind probably doesn't hurt either ;-)
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Dravonk Funditor Offline Posts: 773 Aachen, Germany Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #9 - May 19^th, 2007 at 1:48pm Do staff slings count, too?
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Sora Junior Member Offline I'm slinging in the rain... Posts: 65 Hellgium Gender:	Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling? Reply #10 - May 20^th, 2007 at 7:06am ok staff slings also count
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Reply #11 - May 20^th, 2007 at 1:04pm

slinging against rocks, i can make a nice cloud of dust when slinging unfired clay glans (no trace of bullet except smudge of dust on rock)

in certain cases i have broken small hard stones, i have managed to vaporize some stones as well.

if i manage to hit a tree, the stone usually blows a huge chunk of bark out of wherever it hits, and leaves an ugly scar.

if i remember correctly, there were some tests done a while ago that showed that under the right conditions a slung stone can hit with the same force as a bullet from a colt .45 (the gun)

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Re: How hard can you hit something with a sling?
Reply #12 - May 20^th, 2007 at 5:29pm

make a modeling clay target, get some smae size, shape and weight bullets, sling them at the modeling clay target, measure how deep they go and then using scales try to push one bullet by yourself to see how much force (weight) you need to do it... Thats just an idea, I'm sure it is not very exact and needs some improvements...
I think the clay used should be of a kind that's hard to push in... for better results

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Reply #13 - May 20^th, 2007 at 11:23pm

Yep,
Makes two of us.
Although I could use my "Brick 'Chucker" (6"x5" Pouch 3/8ths' rope ) load it up and do far more damage than with my Tibetian sling

Marc Adkins

Curious Aardvark wrote on May 18^th, 2007 at 7:12am:

Actually if you take the thread title literally and get a heavy duty sling like my tibetan job and load it with a 2lb rock and swing it round your head and just hit something with that (not actually slinging) it'd be as good as sledge hammer

So yeah I could hit stuff really hard with a sling

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Reply #14 - May 20^th, 2007 at 11:25pm

With no windup casts ( both overhand and underhand) I have broken river rock and marble gravel ( found in bags at the local DIY stores).
but so far I have mainly been casting for distance and not at any target in particular.

Marc Adkins

siguy wrote on May 20^th, 2007 at 1:04pm:

slinging against rocks, i can make a nice cloud of dust when slinging unfired clay glans (no trace of bullet except smudge of dust on rock)

in certain cases i have broken small hard stones, i have managed to vaporize some stones as well.

if i manage to hit a tree, the stone usually blows a huge chunk of bark out of wherever it hits, and leaves an ugly scar.

if i remember correctly, there were some tests done a while ago that showed that under the right conditions a slung stone can hit with the same force as a bullet from a colt .45 (the gun)

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