First of all, I want to preface this thread by saying the title is referring not to the siege weapon you might think, but actually, rounds made out of masonry mortar. My girlfriend, Sommer, in her infinite sweetness and understanding of my weirdness and obsession with slinging, decided to surprise me the other day with some ammunition she crafted for me in secret out of masonry mortar stuffed into vaseline-lined plastic easter eggs, then dried in her garage for several days. She did a couple different sizes, some normal egg sized (3.5 oz, almost exactly) and others slightly under thumb sized (around 1.25 oz). Aside from being semi-crumbly and soft, the mortar rounds came out really well. To me, I consider the ideal sling projectile weight to be about 3-4 oz, so the fact that the large ones came out @ 3.5oz, is spectacular. I'd mentioned doing this sort of thing in conversation with her one time, and apparently, she thought she'd go and surprise me! And surprise me she did! My girlfriend makes sling ammunition for me. I knew there was something special about her when I met her...
Also included is a picture of Goliath, the most recent braided sling, I made from Jute cordage. It's a nice split pocket design on which I've done a bit of weaving at both pocket ends to close the pocket a bit, but still allows me to throw projectiles as big as softballs, provided they don't slip out of the sling.
On second thought, since the photos are so huge and bound to cause merry hell with someone's computer, I'm just going to include the links.
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk200/Jackcordial/Picture.jpg -small ammo
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk200/Jackcordial/Picture004.jpg -lg. ammo
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk200/Jackcordial/Picture002.jpg -all ammo
http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk200/Jackcordial/Picture001.jpg -Goliath