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bernardz Tiro Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13	When and where the last professional slingers? Feb 18^th, 2010, 8:08am as above
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Re: When and where the last professional slingers?
Reply #1 - Feb 18^th, 2010, 8:34am

As warriors I'll take a guess at South America, 1500-1600 CE Aztec/Inca vs Spanish.

Nope, actually Pacific Islands, early 1800's Polynesian warriors vs each other and the British.

As shepherds, there are llama/alpaca herders in Peru, yak herders in Tibet, goat herders in Africa and the Middle East, maybe even still in Spain.

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Re: When and where the last professional slingers?
Reply #2 - Feb 18^th, 2010, 9:58am

Guess it depends oj your definition of professional.

There are still kids in mexico who use slings to clear birds from crops - they'd get something for it, so technically are professional slingers.

Our fellow member louis pons livermore wins prizes at balearic competitions so directly profits from his slinging. Also a definition of a professional.

If you mean regiments or squads of battle slingers, that's a different matter. see david's answer

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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9039 Gender:	Re: When and where the last professional slingers? Reply #5 - Feb 21^st, 2010, 2:59pm Quote from Lycurgus on Feb 18^th, 2010, 1:01pm: My Re-enactment group got paid for an event at which I slung. Does that make me a professional? Only if you wouldn't have got paid without the slinging
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bigkahuna Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Posts: 3682 Gender:	Re: When and where the last professional slingers? Reply #6 - Feb 23^rd, 2010, 5:08am What about the troops in the Spanish Civil War?? Didn't they use slings?? That would make them the last military slingers.
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Aussie Past Moderator Joined Nov. 1, 2006 Luke 14:14 Posts: 3265 Gender:	Re: When and where the last professional slingers? Reply #7 - Feb 28^th, 2010, 6:58pm Wanderer posted a link sometime ago about an Ethiopian Jew in the Israeli army. This guy was absolutely deadly with a sling and when questioned about it he explained to his CO that in the Ethiopian army slings are still used as grenade launchers, even to this day.
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Re: When and where the last professional slingers?
Reply #8 - Mar 10^th, 2010, 5:30pm

Quote from Aussie on Feb 28^th, 2010, 6:58pm:

Wanderer posted a link sometime ago about an Ethiopian Jew in the Israeli army. This guy was absolutely deadly with a sling and when questioned about it he explained to his CO that in the Ethiopian army slings are still used as grenade launchers, even to this day.

I remember reading that post but I can't find the link. I was looking to reread it after reading the Slings in Modern Resistance thread.

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Lycurgus Descens ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ Posts: 442 Gender:	Re: When and where the last professional slingers? Reply #9 - Mar 11^th, 2010, 2:22pm Quote from curious_aardvark on Feb 21^st, 2010, 2:59pm: Quote from Lycurgus on Feb 18^th, 2010, 1:01pm: My Re-enactment group got paid for an event at which I slung. Does that make me a professional? Only if you wouldn't have got paid without the slinging Booooo spoil-sport
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colejack3 Descens Slinging Rocks! Posts: 219 Gender:	Re: When and where the last professional slingers? Reply #10 - Jul 7^th, 2010, 9:14am I thought the tribes in africa still used slings? Do the australian aborigines use slings?
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Re: When and where the last professional slingers?
Reply #12 - Feb 11^th, 2011, 5:55am

Aboriginal Australians had/have woomeras (Atlatls) and hunting boomerangs (essentially a rabbit stick) for hunting and combat.

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