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What got you into slinging?
Mar 2nd, 2015 at 9:48am
 
I am curious how some of you here got into slinging. I got into it from a video game I used to play called Pitfall: The Lost Expedition, the main character uses a sling in the game. I also got into it by the story of David and Goliath. What about you?
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Reply #1 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 2:53pm
 
I was on Wikipedia reading about fortifications which led to siege engines which led to slinging.org.
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Reply #2 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 4:07pm
 
Books like Redwall and wheel of time got me interested and my friend telling me of how his dad used to sling and be able to shoot sunflowers.
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Reply #3 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 4:26pm
 
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Reply #4 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 5:18pm
 
Several years ago I watched Mr Livermore on the History channel and I was hooked, especially after discovering this site.
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Reply #5 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 7:02pm
 
my cousin got me into it when I was about 5 years old.
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Reply #6 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 10:03pm
 
I was a member  of a different  forum, and someone from this forum was on there posting  his videos of himself  slinging,  and it was about the time i was getting into all primitive  weapons and living skills.
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Reply #7 - Mar 2nd, 2015 at 11:47pm
 
A friend, legos896 to be exact, he in introduced me to slinging around April 27th. After our first hobby which, was blowguns, I started that hobby, then around late May this past year I started practicing whipping, I learned how to plait whips how to do many different cracks and how to make different whips. Although we had many different Hobbes slinging, and blowguns stuck, blowguns are still in the background and I am still slowly improving them. Slings on the otherhand we have been improving over the past year and I think finally we have found the "perfect sling" that's what I use in most of my videos, it's sort of a balearic sling but with a different type of string. That was a bit to long sorry, hopefully you guys got my point.  Smiley
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Reply #8 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 7:38am
 
my uncle who used to be a really good slinger, and still makes bows and arrows from a tree in his backyard.
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Reply #9 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 12:38pm
 
The TV show survivor got me into it, watched and got pissed off about all the whining about food and no one doing anything about it. So I toyed with the idea to apply and in an old army manual I read for research there were instructions for making a sling. Made one and old Aussie sent me one too, good old Aussie. May he rest in peace.
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Reply #10 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 7:58pm
 
Reading David and Goliath and watching Clan of the Cavebear
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Reply #11 - Mar 3rd, 2015 at 8:23pm
 
I don't really remember, but I do remember finding this site, and getting hooked
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Reply #12 - Mar 4th, 2015 at 3:59pm
 
Left arm doesn't work quite right.  Can't squirrel hunt with an atlatl.  Found this site and been here since.
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Reply #13 - Mar 14th, 2015 at 4:07pm
 
2-3 years before I started slinging I had made a crappy sling and had been trying to throw stones in the way that many ordinary people think the are slung - rotate the weapon as fast as possible over my head.
Then I met Rome Total War and its Rhodian slingers mercenary unit. Ancient warfare attracts me a lot but swords and bows are quite common and known as well as expensive. So I somehow learned fig8 and could sling 50-70m which was unbelievable for me(I can throw 40-50m max by hand)- Then 100m, 160m, 200m with biconical clay and in the end 250m with biconical clay and good wind  Wink

2 years before i started I and my family had been to Rhodos. Unfortunatelly not slinging. When i talked about Rhodos again, it was "democratically" rejected  Cry
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Reply #14 - Mar 17th, 2015 at 12:34pm
 
David & Goliath story  Cool ... made first sling as a pre teen ... couldn't get it to work  Shocked (ammo too large for pouch) and stones would fly off in any direction plus I thought it needed to be wound up like an airplane propeller  Embarrassed (Wrong) .... shelved the Idea until I blundered across this site... now I have 15 - 20 If I can locate them all. Wink (most 550 and leather or nylon strap). It has led me to Kumihimo and other braiding and now I'm doing a very slow slide into spinning. Smiley
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