lakeslinger wrote on Feb 20
th, 2013 at 4:44am:
Till now I haven`t made good experiences with balearic slings. I lost nearly every stone at the windup, except when I put very low power in the shot, with the consequence of worst distance and accuracy. I tried different sizes of ammo, with the same results. The only sling of the balearic type family that worked is my honda manchega (see the how to`s section). But it needs such big stones that it`s really difficult to sling without tearing out your whole arm.
Never tried it, but I can imagine that some leather sewn on the pouch inside (like in the upper picture of Dan`s slings) prevents losing the ammo. Natural fibers as well as paracord are very slippery when used in this kind of slings.
From the 2 sling-types in this topic I prefer the tut sling. I have one with quite a small pouch, maybe 2 inches wide and it throws nearly everything. Once I found a small (empty) wodka-bottle at the lakeshore where I use to sling. It was more than 2 times longer than the pouch width, but I loaded it and slung (?) it with a lot of power. The bottle left the sling exactly in the right release moment and flew away straightly about 70 m.
Also tried big stones - no problem for the tut.
Since when have big stones hurt your arm? start with 6 oz and go in 2 oz increments up to 16 oz and you should be fine. almost every stone I sling is >10 oz, and ALL of them are over 6, with the exception of bb-filled golf balls(which throw me WAAYAYY off cause they are sooo light!)
Oh, and I can understand that if you go from 2 oz stones to 16 oz stones, it might hurt. It is totally different- it goes from "insane speed" to "fast wrist and arm movements that hurt if you mess up"
-Squirrel