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paracordslinger Senior Member Offline Paid by the hour, Older by the minute Posts: 445 kansas Gender:	targets? Apr 24^th, 2011 at 9:56pm just as curious as an aardvark i was wondering what u guys used for targets. i use a road closed sign with a white square and black circle.
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shadowtracker Tiro Offline ... to suffer the slings and arrows of outr....... Posts: 11 memphis tn Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #1 - Apr 24^th, 2011 at 11:51pm I have an old foot bridge from my sons cub scout days stood up down by the fence. the lake is beyond that so it's a safe target range. It has shelf like protusions and I generally put plastic bottles and cans on those.
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Aussie Past Moderator Offline Joined Nov. 1, 2006 Luke 14:14 Posts: 3265 Melbourne, Australia Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #2 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 12:02am If slinging at a distance in the local park it will usually be just some feature on the grass like a leaf or bit of rubbish. Often I'll leave the bag that I carry all my slinging gear in on the ground and try to hit it. For close-up, ie. 30m or less, I use a sling at a tennis practise wall.
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Eoraptor Funditor Offline Aim small, miss small. Posts: 936 Great Lakes Region (USA) Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #3 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 10:12am I usualy aim for an ice scar on the base of a tree across the river. I think I've hit it twice...
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cracker Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 22	Re: targets? Reply #4 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 11:12am I'm thinking of using a full sheet of roofing tin to paint a "life-sized" picture of ol' Goliath on.
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Re: targets?
Reply #5 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 11:21am

i made a PVC frame that I used to hang a tarp on.

Since this pic was taken I've added a cross piece halfway up so that I can set up the target like American Football goalposts. I eventually plan to draw a bullseye on some old white sheets to hang between the crosspieces. The target is 2.5'x2.5' on 2.5' legs. Basically 5' PVC pipe cut in half to make a square just smaller than Balearic standard.

Pikåru wrote on Nov 19^th, 2013 at 6:59pm:

Massi - WTF? It's called a sling. You use it to throw rocks farther and faster than you could otherwise. That's all.
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Bill Skinner past-moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: targets? Reply #6 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 11:22am I have a 12 inch (30cm) pipe cap on a post in front of my barn. If I miss, at least I hit the broad side of a barn. I can back off about 35 yards (30m) but usually I am about 1/2 that. Bill
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Sons of benjamin Descens Offline Posts: 190 Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #7 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 3:19pm I aim at trees. Usually features, like knots, but generally just the entire trunk. If I'm slinging for distance, I aim for a hill or something like that.
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DavidTheDefender Tiro Offline I sling rocks and study the Holy Bible Posts: 16 Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #8 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 4:59pm I got me a junk fiberglass basketball backboard set up in my yard, it has a square on it that is 1 square foot big but I just use the whole thing as a target. And then I have a giant red bucket full of sand as a target.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14244 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #9 - Apr 26^th, 2011 at 12:06am Mostly trees. Sometimes bushes, preferably man sized. I sling while walking the Huskies so I can't be too choosy about targets. Lakes make good targets too. They're hard but not impossible to miss.
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Eoraptor Funditor Offline Aim small, miss small. Posts: 936 Great Lakes Region (USA) Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #10 - Apr 26^th, 2011 at 5:56pm Eoraptor wrote on Apr 25^th, 2011 at 10:12am: I usualy aim for an ice scar on the base of a tree across the river. I think I've hit it twice... I was curious to see how far away my target is, so I plotted it as a path on google earth. Aparently my target is 138 feet away
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2862 Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #11 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 2:58am Here are my aims. A massif built Diane. Unfortunately, the centre is only from 4 mm of steel. I will substitute for it with 7 mm
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2862 Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #12 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 3:07am An old wooden record of a kitchen These aims are only from short duration. I use them seldom longer than 10 minuten
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3246 Akron NY Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #13 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 6:29am I usually sling in the woods, so just pick a random target. If I'm giving a formal demonstration, there are always plenty of the coroplast political signs along the side of the roads. The ones that people just stick in and forget about.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14244 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: targets? Reply #14 - Apr 27^th, 2011 at 1:14pm There has to be some satisfaction at putting a rock through a political enemy's sign.
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