I have no ware safe to try and go for full power, so i never really try full power, just some mdoerate power within reason.
But i may try ona  turf field near where i sling soon, i think it has a full size soccer field on it, so maybe ill use that to find out.
i voted 50-99m

mr. boss

I got to wonder why you are the only guy on the forum who measures your sling in overall length. I'm not saying it is wrong, but it is a little confusing. That, combined with the staggering distances you claim to throw, kind of makes you apear to be overcompinsating for something Relax there is nothing to prove here.

Curious Aardvark wrote on Dec 18^th, 2009 at 7:15am:


Im actually thinking of contacting guiness eventually.

Now I'm certain that mrboss is a powerful slinger, cos I've seen his videos. Is he in Larry Bray's league? I dunno... Larry's throws dont look all that special but he was clearing 300 metres in front of our own C_A.

Somehow we need to measure and confirm or refute what is going on here, because if mrboss is even 80% correct he is the third best slinger in the modern world, after Yurek and Larry Bray. If he is 100% as good as he says, we need to get Guinness on the phone.

We cant just say "piss off, you're full of it" just because he's a cocky kid from Detroit. There's an old giffer from Wyoming and a beardy guy from Eastern Europe who are already there. Hell, I'd like to be there but I dont know how.

Gday guys... just cast my vote... went for 150-200. Hard to judge precisely as everywhere around my place (the range, haha) is either uphill or downhill from someplace else. But I use an old burnt out house-pad that I know for a fact is 200ft for comparison, and stop "tracking" a shot once it has more fall than travel. Hard to do, would be nice if I could throw something and then suddenly be 90 degrees to one side of it!  

Glad to see I'm in the mid ground of figures (machismo being what it is) but I suspect being awkwardly tall, having arms like a trebuchet and being fairly hardened to outdoor work (not to mention being a whippersnapper, to some extent) helps a lot.

I find that with a crosswind at 90deg (live on a montane ridge about 400m up here, serious wind sometimes) can shave 1/3 off distance and of course throws any semblance of accuracy (beyond it going somewhere in front of me) as I don't have any truly round, smooth shot. Using natural stone, if it's round it's typically not smooth and if its smooth it's more tear or egg shaped, of course.

I find that for accuracy practice, guess you could call it plinking, 20-30mm shot of medium density stone seems a good choice. I am lucky enough to have a hill full of conglomerate stone that shatters in impact... this reduces rebounds and dangerous richochets. For distance, I choose a 50-75 mm stone of high density. A stiff tailwind is lovely, too, and I am sure in many an ancient battle or hunt slingers had to choose between tailwind for assistance vs headwind to avoid scent alerting game or foes. Teaches you to work at least halfway with nature, that's for sure.

Into the wind (never measured it, but a stiff breeze up here lets me run LED lights  from a homemade turbine system of aluminium blades and macgyver'd VCR motors) and the usual wind is enough to naturally bonsai trees, altitude seems to be unaffected but distance drops by half, at least. Density of shot matters a lot at this early stage of my practice, with "midweight" shots averaging poorer range and accuracy than double or half that weight... I find I tend to undercompensate.

Was thinking of casting some concrete shots in passionfruit skins (bit of a fruit bat!)... not big on lead. Would make an ideal size though, reasonably smooth and biologically "inert".

Some impressive throws out there... I'm built more like a spearman than a bowmen otherwise I could do better   May have to start swigging more ale? Important to set achievable goals  

Does anyone know if there is any kind of device that could be incorporated into largish (palm sized?) shot to measure altitude/distance/time/velocity? would be interesting to see some real figures. Worlds first USB 2.0 shot? good for a laugh, anyway.

A piccy of my favoured "range" is attached. it is sometimes actually that green, lots of lightning and rain of late.

happy flinging,
H_T

I am pretty sure that I can hit out to somewhere in the vicinity of +150-200 yards (137-182m) probably 200 if I give it a good ooomph, now that I use longer slings than I used to.  With a 42" PJ sling, I can definitely pass 100 yards regularly.  That's with golf balls.  With clay glandes that are about the size of golf balls, I'm sure I could blast past that.

My answer on the poll was 150-199m.  I'm fairly sure I'm good for that.

hybrid_throwback wrote on Dec 19^th, 2009 at 1:59am:

In the prehistory of this forum someone suggested the ratio of hand and sling thrown distances. I don't think anyone posted their figures at the time.

To me slinging is very much rhythm, timing, almost no brute force thank goodness  .

As far as the long distance technique - it seems to me the pirouette has to be the way to go if one insists on the 6.5 foot slings MrBoss uses, if one can get the elevation for the distance, but what little has been posted suggests a technique that could do with a lot of polishing.

I think it's a big mistake to assume that a longer sling will automatically get one a greater distance. It will only if one can modify one's throwing motion properly to the longer sling. The longer the sling the further one has to move one's hand to get the same effect, and they pretty much scale together. I think that is basically why the measures hand-to-whatever have some usefulness.

Personally I can't believe the distances are in feet rather than yards (!) although there are many here who seem to think that a yard is pretty much the same as a meter!

hybrid_throwback wrote on Dec 19^th, 2009 at 1:41am:

No, but I'm working on it . Don't hold your breath
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And there was me visualising a scorched red desert. Which part of Australia is that (sorry if you mentioned it in your earlier posts - havn't read them all yet )