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Pkald Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 16	rubber rocks Apr 15^th, 2014 at 2:04pm Do any of you guys have experience with making rubber balls that is heavy enough for slinging but safe for LARPing? LARP= Live Action RolePlay. A kind of fantasy game where you dress up as a knight and fight with latexswords (Also, I am new on this forum so:Hello everybody)
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Arcane Tinker Funditor Offline Slinging everything 'cept b.s. Posts: 738 Western Wisconsin Gender:	Re: rubber rocks Reply #1 - Apr 15^th, 2014 at 2:12pm Raquette balls are about as close as you can get without really hurting someone..IMHO. They also have the advantage of being relatively recognizable as a safe projectile. Yes, they aren't exactly authentically colored, but you won't get tackled for fear of being a maniac.
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Coordinatic Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 26 Samuilovo, Sliven, Bulgaria Gender:	Re: rubber rocks Reply #2 - Apr 15^th, 2014 at 2:48pm I guess the way to see if it is safe enough is by asking someone to throw the rubber ball at you full strength from a few metres away. See if it hurts even a bit, because the sling's power would amplify the pain from a bit to a lot.
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Pkald Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 16	Re: rubber rocks Reply #3 - Apr 15^th, 2014 at 2:55pm Do you have any e periences crafting nonlethal amunition?
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Tomas Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2172	Re: rubber rocks Reply #4 - Apr 15^th, 2014 at 4:19pm Just use tennis balls dude. They won't maim but they will sting a lot. Also welcome aboard:)
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Reply #5 - Apr 15^th, 2014 at 10:16pm

Pkald wrote on Apr 15^th, 2014 at 2:04pm:

Do any of you guys have experience with making rubber balls that is heavy enough for slinging but safe for LARPing?

LARP= Live Action RolePlay. A kind of fantasy game where you dress up as a knight and fight with latexswords

(Also, I am new on this forum so:Hello everybody)

I think a solid or even a thin walled ball could really hurt somebody at the velocities we sling at.
LARP... why not go with wooden weapons? so much more fun...
Tennis balls... +1

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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Programming stones Posts: 2358 Transilvania Gender:	Re: rubber rocks Reply #6 - Apr 16^th, 2014 at 4:04am +1 tennis balls Baloons filled with flour.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3220 Akron NY Gender:	Re: rubber rocks Reply #7 - Apr 16^th, 2014 at 6:36am In the SCA, the Kingdom of Meridies recognizes combat slinging. They take the approach of using a sling staff. Basically, they use a lacrosse stick with a tennis ball as ammo. However, the ball has to have a slit cut into it, so that if someone steps on it,it collapses.
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Reply #8 - Apr 16^th, 2014 at 12:39pm

There you go. As the others said, tennis balls reign supreme, cut a slit in them if you don't want anyone to roll their ankle on them. Racket balls could work too but they don't weigh as much so they won't have as much impact or the same range. If you want your tennis balls to look more traditional, spend $5 and get some grey and brown spray paint to make them look more rock like.

It WILL hurt getting hit by one, but it shouldn't be any worse than getting hit really hard by a foam sword.

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I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.

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timpa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Stones in the horizon Posts: 1515 Finland	Re: rubber rocks Reply #9 - Apr 16^th, 2014 at 6:17pm This has been discussed a lot of Finnish boffing forum. It seems to be difficult to implement. (Requirements: fly far and straight, but not hurt.)
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Reply #10 - Apr 23^rd, 2014 at 6:22pm

Balloons filled with flour sounds painful. As kids on holloween we wacked each other with chalk dust socks, they could hurt. Tossed by a sling would be much worse. They skin will pop, but it hits as a solid, then it disintigrates. Paint balls sting to hurt, but they have little density. It is the reason no matter how friends try to encouage me I, don't paint ball.

Since I will never try it, I could be very wrong. I just rember my chalk sock days. A small sting then, but my bb really wound up, it hurt enough!

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Reply #11 - Apr 25^th, 2014 at 2:58pm

Balloons filled with water. Fill one balloon with just a little water (so that it's full but doesn't stretch), cut the neck off 3-5 more balloons, then put them over the first one in layers (with the opening facing front and back alternatingly). This yields a very bouncy egg-sized spheroid projectile that weighs about 50 grams. I would rather get hit by 10 of those than a single tennis ball.

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Reply #12 - Apr 25^th, 2014 at 6:52pm

still sounds rather painful.
Here is (IMO) the main problem with slings and hitting people-
you are sending a projectile at low-airsoft velocites.
It weighs several hundred times as much.
Therefore several hundred times the energy
therefore quite a bit more damage.
It is rather diffucult to hit people with such a thing without causing any marks or damage.
it is much easier to just accept some bruising.

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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Programming stones Posts: 2358 Transilvania Gender:	Re: rubber rocks Reply #13 - Apr 26^th, 2014 at 12:27am Anything,that doesn't decelerate at 10-20m,will hurt. And if it does, it's not viable ammo imo. The slinger can vary his power in his shots.
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squirrelslinger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline peace through superior firepower Posts: 2870 Ky, USA Gender:	Re: rubber rocks Reply #14 - Apr 26^th, 2014 at 1:05pm still, a sling has a LOT of power. a light sling throw has the power of a baseball pitcher throwing hard. a hard sling throw...
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