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Dan

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You might be a Slinger if.......
Sep 12^th, 2011, 7:26pm

http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/44971/You-might-be-a-Bowyer-if?page=1

I personaly, being a bowyer, found this to be hilarious figured we should do one for slining if it hasn't been done yet.

So, You might be a Slinger if....

1) You have ever "borrowed" good sling stones from a decorative display.

2) You know what an Apache, Rockman, PJ, TS3, and seat belt slings are.

3) You know it is a sling and not a "sling shot"

4) You have ever used a sling as a belt.

5) You feel like a kid in a candy store on a rocky beach.

6) You are constantly pulling jute fuzzies off your clothes

More?

1 Samuel 14:7

"Like tying a stone to a sling is the giving of honor to a fool" Proverbs 26:8

SALVATION: By Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ alone.

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vildor Novicius Slinging Rocks! Posts: 8 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #1 - Sep 12^th, 2011, 7:34pm 7) You can braid faster and better than your girlfriend... who has been doing it since she was 12. 8) You keep a shovel and a bucket on the trunk just in case you find good clay 9) You always carry some mean of taking rocks home
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Re: You might be a Slinger if.......
Reply #2 - Sep 12^th, 2011, 7:53pm

Youmight be a slinger if...

9)You have a preference for what kind of "natural" rope you buy.

10)You buy yarn for your girlfriend because you were going to the craft store anyway.

11)You buy boards, nails, crochet thread, beads, and leather scrap on the same shopping trip.

12)You've ever thrown a rock through your own window.

13)You wonder what certain rocks sound like.

14)You've ever tried to get rocks to make noise.

15)You've even been excited to see a bidet explode.

16)You see a thorny weed and wonder what it will feel like if it were twisted and wrapped around your finger.

17)You eagerly waited for pieces of used mail room conveyor belting to arrive in the mail.

Be careful what you post online.

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Re: You might be a Slinger if.......
Reply #3 - Sep 12^th, 2011, 8:12pm

....if you have seen someone's eyes glaze over as you begin explaining the finer details of ammo weight affecting accuracy through changes in a sling's rotational speed...

...if you have thrown your sling down in disgust only to pick it back up and start practicing again 5 minutes later...

...if you have gone running for cover with your arms over your head when a massive stone slips prematurely from your sling during the wind-up...

...if you have daydreamed about the gopher that annually destroys your precious vegetable garden poking his evil furry head up out of the ground while you have a sling and a stone in your hand...

...if you have literally missed the broad side of a barn...

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."

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Re: You might be a Slinger if.......
Reply #4 - Sep 12^th, 2011, 8:17pm

18) People think you are a witch because fibrous plants are drying/stored all over your house.
19) You spend a whole math class wondering if a certain knot/pattern/braid will work in a sling.
20) You return to family/friends covered in mud and water with the excuse “I tried to sling a rock the size of an ostrich egg…”
21) You braid so much that you absentmindedly begin to picture your marudai as a jellyfish and start to imagine how it would swim…
22) You wade through waist deep water and a foot of silt to retrieve part of an old sling that finally broke.

"The very fact that there is life here at all, and that everything that's alive today, is so, because everything else passed away." -Jack Horner

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

"Yet the finer they were the frailer; the cleverer, the more wrong-headed." -North

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Re: You might be a Slinger if.......
Reply #5 - Sep 12^th, 2011, 8:59pm

23) your always complaining about the poor quality of sisal, jute, and hemp in your country

24) you look at there most random stuff and wonder how far you can throw it.

25) contrary to general opinion you think rocks can have just as much lethality as pistol round and arrows.

26) speed does not mean power, control, or strength.

27) you actually know wtf a sling looks like and works like.

28) you've taught more than person that slings are not toys.

There's no break, there's no end, just a-living on;
Wide awake, with a smile, going on and on.

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Knaight Interfector Viris Spurii Slinging Tennis Balls! Posts: 1237 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #6 - Sep 12^th, 2011, 9:45pm 29) You wince whenever you hear the term "sling shot" applied to old stories. 30) The term "figure eight" isn't immediately connected to skating in your mind. 31) You can't help but take notice of certain rocks. 32) You know that braiding sisal really hurts the hands.
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Jabames Interfector Viris Spurii :3 Posts: 1698 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #7 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 1:41am 33.) You can braid without looking 34.) you wonder how you would do in an ancient battle with slings 35.) you ask if theres such a thing as a one cord sling 36.) you never leave anywhere without a good sling
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Knaight Interfector Viris Spurii Slinging Tennis Balls! Posts: 1237 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #8 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 2:00am 37) You can make a spliced rope one strand sling.
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Dilyan Ganev Descens Hard rocks... Posts: 265 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #9 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 3:40am 38) you know several different type of braid, actually more than you girlfriend/wife 39) often when your out somewhere, you're on the lookout for good stones 40) pacing out even the distance to the local grocery shot, to hone you range finding 41) there is no such thing as a simple rock on the ground...
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Forum Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2881	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #10 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 7:23am 42) You have half-used balls of string all round your house 43 ) You have ruined a perfectly good tennis ball and though that was awesome 44) You can say 'pouch' without smirking
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9442 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #11 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 7:46am 45) No matter the occasion, you can't pass a good stone without picking it up, putting it in your pocket, and taking it home. 46) Your family is concerned for your mental health. 47) You spend hours online discussing the physics of rocks flying through the air. This is a very good thread, Dan.
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Jabames Interfector Viris Spurii :3 Posts: 1698 Gender:	Re: You might be a Slinger if....... Reply #12 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 8:29am 48.) like a student learning martial arts, you wonder how you sling compared to a master 49.) you have stores of many different types of cordage, and you scrounge em wherever you can find em 50.) you cant help yourself but to show off sometimes when slinging...
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Re: You might be a Slinger if.......
Reply #13 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 9:07am

51) While you're waiting in line you wonder what you can use, with whats laying around, to make a sling

52) When you go to the beach you always go to the far end, where there's no one within a couple hundred meters.

53) There are rocks, and there are stones

54) Your friends say goodbye when you tell them you're going to practice a new sling style

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Dan

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Re: You might be a Slinger if.......
Reply #14 - Sep 13^th, 2011, 9:12am

Thanks Rat Man, pretty fun so far.

51b) when ever you see wildlife outdoors you wonder if you could someday hunt with your sling.

52b) when at the local market you see various fruits and vegetables and think how awesome it would be to see one hit by a sling stone.

53b) you have ever whooped your friends in rock skipping and throwing contest with a sling.

54b) While most non-slingers think it's cool, you know the buzzing of a rock is killing your kinetic energy and power.

55) you have ever needed to tighten your belt because all the rocks in your pockets were weighing them down.

56) you have gone on a hike through a park to take pictures but ended up taking more rocks.

« Last Edit: Sep 14^th, 2011, 9:43am by Dan »

1 Samuel 14:7

"Like tying a stone to a sling is the giving of honor to a fool" Proverbs 26:8

SALVATION: By Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ alone.

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