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Lugh-Lamhfada Descens A slinger is only as good as his last stone Posts: 203 Gender:	Sling footage Spanish Civil War Jul 28^th, 2012, 5:14pm Heres a few seconds of soldiers slinging grenades from a roof during Spanish Civil War. I think they are republican soldiers, not sure though. Both sides used them anyway. At 0.30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eksEL8qhP-w
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9442 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #1 - Jul 29^th, 2012, 7:27am He used sort of a side armed Apache style. It seemed to work for him.
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Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War
Reply #2 - Jul 29^th, 2012, 8:36am

It would want to work for him, after all he has something on a fuse in his pouch, its not like if it slipped out he can just reload and have another go!

Id love to know if the soldiers using slings during this period were rural, and brought either their slings or more likely slinging knowledge with them or was it a widespread thing used by soldiers from everywhere?

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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Programming stones Posts: 1661 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #3 - Jul 29^th, 2012, 9:54am In some parts of Spain shepherds still use the sling,today. Me thinks,there were guys in the army that knew how to use a sling and improvised one during the fights.They had grenades,and wanted to throw them farther. It's visible that it has a large pouch,suitable for grenades,clearly not a sling brought from home.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Slinging Rocks! Posts: 9442 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #4 - Jul 29^th, 2012, 6:01pm My throwing arm sucks. If I was launching hand grenades I would almost certainly use a sling.
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bigkahuna Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Posts: 3682 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #5 - Jul 29^th, 2012, 9:12pm Looks like everybody is shooting Mausers.
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Lugh-Lamhfada Descens A slinger is only as good as his last stone Posts: 203 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #6 - Jul 30^th, 2012, 5:09am Quote from bigkahuna on Jul 29^th, 2012, 9:12pm: Looks like everybody is shooting Mausers. Mauser 1893's if im not mistaken
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curious_aardvark Slinging.org Administrator Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 9040 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #7 - Aug 2^nd, 2012, 12:30pm amazing - always said slingers would make great grenadiers. Surprised modern special forces don't use them.
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Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War
Reply #8 - Aug 2^nd, 2012, 1:33pm

WOW i think that would be a great addition to the US Artillery or every soilders training

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thabaill Tiro Slinging Rocks! Posts: 58	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #9 - Aug 16^th, 2012, 5:14pm Hello, thank you very much for sharing the video. http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1287035482 http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1310253897/5#5 http://www.nodo50.org/despage/Nuestra%20Historia/guerra%20civil/bombas%20con%20h onda/bombas_con_honda.htm Greetings.
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woodssj Tiro Inflicting Harm at Range since B.C. 4000 Posts: 85 Gender:	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #10 - Sep 12^th, 2012, 10:34pm I plan to do this when I hit the Air Force BMT Field Week... I think the Sargent(s) will be pissed, to say the least. This was tried in the First World War as well, but didn't work as well in a trench.
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HurlinThom Interfector Viris Spurii Leverage artillerist Posts: 1388	Re: Sling footage Spanish Civil War Reply #11 - Sep 15^th, 2012, 12:10am Quote from Lugh-Lamhfada on Jul 30^th, 2012, 5:09am: Quote from bigkahuna on Jul 29^th, 2012, 9:12pm: Looks like everybody is shooting Mausers. Mauser 1893's if im not mistaken Interesting left-hand bolt configuration on some of them. Or the film got flipped over and everything's reversed right to left.
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