yeah matthias made it with lead cored fly fishing line.

He wouldn't make me one though

My loudest sling is the one I bought from luis

I made, fairly recently, a braided sling from my favourite sling material cotton office string. I usually do a simple 3 strand braid but for this I did a herringbone braid with more cords than I usually use and I tapered the release cord, seemingly, perfectly. It cracks like nothing else. From my experience wit that and the little I know about whips, I think the most important factors are weight (you need some heft behind it), the aerodynamics of the sling in flight (I think the herringbone braid makes for a smoother surface so it travels better) and then really nailing the tapering.

The retention cord starts off at 1cm in width (it's a flat braid) at the end of the pouch.
After 10.5cm it drops a length to 9mm width.
11cm after that it drops another length to 8mm.
After 7cm it drops again to 7mm.
After 6.5cm it drops to 6mm.
After 7.5cm it drops the last cord and is 5mm to the tassle.

As you can tell, I wasn't really measuring anything as I made it, just eyeballed it and got lucky. I think I will have to untie the end and put a proper synthetic cracker because the cotton string just can't handle it. Lots of pretty floating cotton after every crack For now it's really nice though does have a slight twist to it which I attribute to the cotton string and perhaps my less than stellar braiding.

It's my braided hemp sling with a tapered release cord with lose fibers at the end and a woven-in closed pouch. It's quite a heavy sling.

2 days ago I was slinging good 150 gram rocks on average into a very wide channel during the evening and boy that thing gives me a nice crack.

On the opposite of the channel was a forest and the crack really echo'd through it.

There was a house on the opposite side of the channel, about 200 meters away, and their dogs started barking because of it. Eventually I saw someone getting out with a flashlight and he went into the opposite forest, I guess to find out what was causing the bangs.

The snap is really fun and satisfying, but can draw unwanted attention.

To get rid of the knots on the release cord of a tapered braided hemp sling, I simply use a drop of superglue on the places where I drop the strands. No more ugly knots needed, but don't use too much superglue.

My regular 1-cord thin paracord slings do not make the same satisfactory crack, it makes a woosh sound but it's generally a lot quieter. But the quetiest sling would be a braided natural fibre sling without loose fibers at the end, atleast in my experience. It doesn't make as bad a woosh sound as a single cord paracord sling does.

BetterTrees wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2018 at 11:04pm:


That sounds like a good compromise. You don't need to carry two separate slings, you can just silence and unsilence it just like a gun. I'm thinking also maybe just folding the loose strands down and tying them with a small string of hemp

Oooo I would love to see some pictures of that. Also how is kevlar a a sling material?

Here is the sling-whip. You can see where the fall can be connected and disconnected from the sling Even without the fall and popper the sling still makes a mighty crack.