Hello Slingers!  I'm living in Regina, Saskatchewan.  I 'Stumbled Upon' the slinger.org site yesterday and was almost immediately intrigued.  I love the idea of being able to take up a hobby that requires not much more input than time and I'm also very attracted to the ancient origins of this humble little weapon.

I have to say the slinging.org site is absolutely amazing for those new to slinging!  I found the site yesterday morning and by the afternoon I had already made my first braided sling using one of the tutorials provided and a roll of jute twine I had lying around. Today I went out to a field (we live about 30 seconds from the edge of the city and it's just wide open space as far as you can see) and threw my first stones...pretty cool I must say.  The first one I made felt a little short so when I got back I pulled out some more twine and braided up one (in about 1/2 hour or less!) that's a few inches longer.  I start a one month vacation this weekend and can't wait to see if there's a difference between the shorter and longer one.

One question; the design I used from the slinger.org site is a split pouch one,  Looking at other designs I can see little problem with sewing a leather pouch over the split pouch but I'm wondering if this is necessary or not. Is there much difference between a split or leather pouch?

And THAT'S how new I really am...can't even remember the name of the website.    Of course I meant 'slinging.org' not 'slinger'.

Another question,  how is length of sling measured, fully extended sling or folded sling?