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its good to see you all are still here!!!
Aug 5th, 2007 at 3:15pm
 
First, this is a very informative site and I thank you all for shareing the knowledge and wisdom.
I had a previous membership under bcereus but i think it was deleted during my time away from home.

I have good news, I made my first sling with the instructions given by Zorro.....the one with the medical tape.
I felt ECSTATIC during my first attempts at using it.
Because of my location I had to adapt the technique for indoor use. I set up an 8 inch target on the wall using about 2 inch paper balls.  
I have a 30 percent accuracy inside 8 inches and 70 percent accuracy inside 12 inches all at 15 feet.
I am right handed and  drift to the left out side 12 inches during release, why?
I am using the under hand throw with the retention cord on my ring finger and the release in-between the thumb and index.
My projectiles release extremely fast and hard….. I was shock by the potential of the sling.

I hope to send some photos soon.

Thank you all for the welcome.
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Reply #1 - Aug 5th, 2007 at 3:30pm
 
Welcome!

I was shocked by the power of the sling too at first. 

Have fun, see you around!
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Reply #2 - Aug 6th, 2007 at 5:44pm
 
yep it's an epithany I think we all share. [i]'Hmm, bit of string, bit of leather, rock. Ok. swish ! - Cor, well bugger me, that's one rock I won't see again. That goliath, what a sucker :-)'. [/i]
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Reply #3 - Aug 9th, 2007 at 2:28pm
 
thanks for the welcome Smiley

these are a couple of pics of my first sling.
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i'm in the process of the last steps of my second sling and in the planning of my third.
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Reply #4 - Aug 13th, 2007 at 7:32am
 
good looking sling :-)
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Reply #5 - Aug 15th, 2007 at 11:45pm
 
[quote author=curious_aardvark link=1186341333/0#2 date=1186436668]yep it's an epithany I think we all share. [i]'Hmm, bit of string, bit of leather, rock. Ok. swish ! - Cor, well bugger me, that's one rock I won't see again. That goliath, what a sucker :-)'. [/i]
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You crack me up ;D
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Reply #6 - Sep 1st, 2007 at 3:04pm
 
Actully for me it was "now that can't be right", then once I got the ammunition weight down and loaded it into my test staff sling that i built to help with the training, It was HOLY FREAKING ( Or a very similar word) COW!!!!! once I loaded up the hand sling it WHOA, and I was hooked, now trying to work on accuracy.

Marc Adkins


Curious Aardvark wrote on Aug 6th, 2007 at 5:44pm:
yep it's an epithany I think we all share. 'Hmm, bit of string, bit of leather, rock. Ok. swish ! - Cor, well bugger me, that's one rock I won't see again. That goliath, what a sucker Smiley'.

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