Recently I played a bit with a home made arrow/dart and strings. I tried out three ways of arrow slinging. They all worked but one of them gave surprisingly good results. The arrow started as clear and fast as if it was launched from a good traditional bow. I mounted a small video to show how it went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO3ZAJS7Tlg

that is brilliant.

Looks like a decent sized crossbow bolt you're slinging too.
And a fig8 throw 

Any more details on how you're looping the cord round the arrow ?

That did work well.  We need to know how the "mecanism" works, seem quite different from that other, center attached cestrosphendone.
I find figure8 to be great for "dart slings", you sure made it work well

Smooth flight. A really good Yurek!

scoteeball wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 7:41pm:

Ditto!  That's awesome and give us some close up pics!

And did you ever find any of your darts?   

Thank you all for watching and the nice comments. Sorry for not replaying a while, my little dart locater is very sick and is in pain

That day I had an intent to try out two my old designs. One of them I already tested some years ago, but I wanted repeat it with a new dart and sling. The other idea was never tested by me. As wrote before the both worked. Finishing my dart slinging I got an idea to try something else, something I recalled from an old thread about cestrosphendones. I found the link:

http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1074713443/240



I made it quickly of jute twine and after first gently shost I got impressed. Feeling of the release was the best, very similar to regular sling. The rest you saw in the video. Though fig 8 isn't my style I also think it is the best for throwing darts with that kind of sling, it doesn't twist the strings. The Greek style should work either. Well it seems a slight flow on the design.

A bigger problem was a bit complicated and time consuming loading. Maybe just because the jute twine I used tended to twist and tangle and I had little practice. Anyway the slinging and video making was a fun.

Eoraptor,
If you find some spare time to watch the video to the end you will find out how my only dart was retrieved

HaifischKuchen,
I would happy to have a good place and a lot of darts to practice with them. I also afraid to hit my dog that often chases things I sling. From my very limited experience I have an impression that slinging darts is more accurate than slinging stones and especially tennis balls. I believe that any fig 8 slinger who is accurate with stones after little practice with darts will be even more accurate.

c_a,
I will know what to do with bolts when my crossbow get broken in a battle

Here is my "drill bolt".

Wow that's deceptively simple. Very Cool!

Very enjoyable video, Yureck.  I too liked the music.  Your dog is very cute.  He's a Beagle mix, right?  I hope he feels better very soon.  I know it can be hell when your babies are sick.