perpetualstudent wrote on Feb 24
th, 2012 at 7:38am:
I like the analogy of Bow:sling Ax:Knife
For me, I don't really have a place where I can shoot for accuracy safely, but I want to eventually be able to hit a man sized target at 100 yds consistently, and head sized (or rabbit sized) target at 25 yds. They are arbitrary decisions (note the pretty numbers) but I think a big part of any accuracy discussion with anything is deciding what you want to be able to do, setting your goal a little past that, and working towards it.
I seem to remember reading a post by a guy named Zorro (I think) where he said shepherds in his area using their very short slings could fairly easily hit a man at 100 meters if they felt like it.
I was taking shots at tree trunks yesterday that were smaller than a man's body from probably 60-70 meters and it was not an overly difficult target. All stones that were poorly shaped went wide of the mark as expected. The one somewhat decent stone I had was within just a few feet of it. I think that's a very achievable goal for any slinger...
I've always had more trouble with very small targets from shorter distances. A coke can at 30 meters consistently means you are an
amazing shot with a sling, to be honest that's great shooting with a trad bow for that matter.