siguy wrote on Jun 5
th, 2007 at 7:43pm:
that's a really nice pouch design...i think i sense some experience with the sewing machine...
is that artificial sinew whipping to hold the loops closed at the joints? just be careful that those are really right, or else they might slip with heavy slinging...i have had a few slings come apart that way.
it looks like you have had the chance to throw some rocks already...how did it go?
also, just out of curiosity, what grip/style/ammo combination do you use or feel most comfortable with?
Naw dude, that was accualy the first time I've ever use a sewing machine. I had to watch the video tape on how to use it two times before I accualy figured the thing out.
But yea I whiped the loops together with some old saddle stiching thred that my dad had lying around. I wraped them tight as hell too, I had to use a plyers to pull the sting throu at the end. After that I put two layers of Elmer's glue over the thred. I made the loop holes in the pouch by heeting a nail up with a torch and pressing it throu the nylon. It makes a perfict hole that wont unravel the stiching of the pouch so i really don't think that will give me much trouble.
The rock chucking has been going great so faw. Just a couple of hours ago myh friend and I were chillin' at the park and I was slinging some rocks about the size of my fist at a paper bag that was about thirty feet away. On my first shot I missed the bag by about two feet and the rock smashed throu a wood fence right behind it. I meen this thing was demolished, the plank I broke was about 3/4" X 6" and it snaped it in half and was riped out by the nails on top and bottom landing like 10' behind the fence. The power you can generate with one of those things amasing, I think I'm going to have to be more carefull with that in the future.
As for my "grip/style/ammo" I feel most comfortible and get the best resalts when I hold the tab thingy between my index finger and thumb. I then spin it counter colckwise above my head, parallel too the ground, one or two times then I relese it under hand on my right side at somthing like a 45 degree angle with my body. Ammo... I first thoght I would mainly be slinging golf ball since I have a plentiful supply of them for my treebuche, but my ideal ammo I've found would be a smooth football shaped rock about an 2" diameter by 3" long.
Mind you, I 'm not pretending that I know what I'm talking about with any of this poopy, I've only been at it for a week or so but I'm lovin' it so far. I think this is the longest thing I've ever written on a forum before. Ask alot of questions get alot of answers.
-Matt aka-OwThatsMyEye
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