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Pikåru Interfector Viris Spurii Experience teaches only the teachable... Posts: 1360 Gender:	Good Stones May 2^nd, 2012, 1:06pm Does anyone hold on to those "perfect" stones, those reserved for that right moment or target, that you won't throw unless...?
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benkolmer Descens Stone re-allocation specialist. Posts: 367 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #1 - May 2^nd, 2012, 1:27pm I have a few that I've weighed and written that weight on as a reference for other stones, but that's the extent of my stone collection.
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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2204 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #2 - May 2^nd, 2012, 1:37pm Yes. When the zombie apocalypse comes I`m prepared. I use some of them sometimes, but I`m sure I got what I need when the day comes. timann
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Morphy Interfector Viris Spurii Checkmate Posts: 2432	Re: Good Stones Reply #3 - May 2^nd, 2012, 1:44pm I've got two stones on my night stand as I write this. I suppose that makes me an ammo hoarder as well. For me it's like a Zen experience. Whenever I'm out slinging in nature I'm always switching back and forth between looking for potential ammo on the ground and potential targets around me. I guess it appeals to the ADD in me.
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Pikåru Interfector Viris Spurii Experience teaches only the teachable... Posts: 1360 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #4 - May 2^nd, 2012, 1:54pm As a kid there was no telling what you'd find in my pockets. It could be a worm, a piece of colored glass, ball of string, bottle caps or a good throwing stone. Much to my wife's dismay, it's nearly the same now.
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Re: Good Stones
Reply #5 - May 2^nd, 2012, 2:29pm

Great thread and well timed.

I was on an old abandoned railway line this very morning looking fo great stones.

Found a 10L bucket full.

I have a great backstop for my target at work. If i have a break on Friday at work, i will use them for practice. Then i can pick them up again and use them again.

Here is a pic of the parking lot at work, before opening time. Notice my old target on the left.

Love it.

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Re: Good Stones
Reply #6 - May 2^nd, 2012, 4:20pm

Quote from Pikaru on May 2^nd, 2012, 1:54pm:

As a kid there was no telling what you'd find in my pockets. It could be a worm, a piece of colored glass, ball of string, bottle caps or a good throwing stone. Much to my wife's dismay, it's nearly the same now.

I'm just the same. Emptying my pockets to prepare them for the laundry sometimes reminds me of the scene in Mad Max 3 where Max is checking his weapons before entering bartertown. The average night stand deposit: a sling, sometimes two of them, utility knife, pocketknife, pen, Sharpie marker, spare change, sheet metal screws, keys, sling stone, a string cheese wrapper and a BIC lighter.
A few weeks ago, I turned a ruined pair of work jeans into a denim tote bag(built like a scaled down army duffel bag ) and bring it to work with me. I usually fill it with at least ten pounds of the nicest roofing rocks I can find around the units I service. As long as there's work, there's ammo.

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Reply #7 - May 2^nd, 2012, 4:39pm

I have some amazing stones from the Great Lakes.

Most of them look like the gray "granitish" stones you have in the picture.

A few of them are black and perfctly smooth and probably 30% more dence than the granitish rocks. I haven't thrown them untill recently now tha I have a target/backstop. They sling great and are so much more accurate and faster than 'ordinary' stones.

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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9449 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #8 - May 2^nd, 2012, 7:49pm When I'm slinging while walking the Huskies I always save one or two of the best stones for "just in case." It's a pretty safe bet that just in case will never happen but still I save a couple of the best stones anyway.
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Atlatlista Ex Member	Re: Good Stones Reply #9 - May 2^nd, 2012, 8:02pm I have one stone that returned to me after two throws at a target about 20 yards away. I figure it deserves a home on my desk after that.
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Reply #10 - May 3^rd, 2012, 10:16pm

Most stones are good. I have been picking rocks up since before I can remember... and I keep them too. Rocks from different states, countries, oceans and so on. I have decorated both indoors and outdoors with my finds. When I am done slinging down by the river, I pick slinging stones up on my way back to the truck so that I have stones when not at the river. Currently, the railing of my second story deck is filled with various rocks for slinging. Rock on!

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xxkid123 Past Moderator Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4798 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #11 - May 3^rd, 2012, 10:29pm Yep. I tell myself I'm saving them, but realistically I probably will never use them. Somewhat like certain knife collectors are with their Sebenzas.
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bigkahuna Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Posts: 3687 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #12 - May 5^th, 2012, 8:55pm Hell yes!!! I have two in my lab coat pocket right now at work.
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Pikåru Interfector Viris Spurii Experience teaches only the teachable... Posts: 1360 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #13 - May 9^th, 2012, 12:05am I picked up a small batch of very dense clay today. After forming glandes, do I have to let it dry before throwing it in the coals to bake it or can I bake it when wet? I'd like to harden the glandes without cracking them.
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Arcane Tinker Descens Slinging everything 'cept b.s. Posts: 310 Gender:	Re: Good Stones Reply #14 - May 9^th, 2012, 7:21am They need to be bone dry to avoid cracking, or worse exploding. Any moisture trapped in the clay will turn to steam when heated in the coal bed. As you may know, a given volume of water expands into a volume more than 1000 greater when it phase shifts into a vapor
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