pretty sure I could have hit them again - maybe would have taken 3-4 shots to do it.
Outside of the fixed distance target shooting, I can pretty much hit anything at odd distances.

Was easily bouncing tennis balls off other slingers from 50 metres over a packed school playground the same day.

Comes of slinging stuff for bilbo for 10 years. I can actually hit a moving target much easier than a static one.

And odd targets at random distances are actully easier than a balearic target at 20 metres.

SlingerDave wrote on Mar 8^th, 2017 at 7:31pm:


Shoot, if thats the case you're a better slinger than I'll ever be. The most I can manage is putting out someone's cigarette with my sling stone.

lol I agree with all the comments.

I think randon targets are easier because it's done purely with the hindbrain.

With the fixed balearic target shooting you tend to get a couple good throws in on instinct and then start thinking about it. With a one off throw that never happens.

Interestingly if you watch someone target slinging for a while you can easily predict on any throw whether they'll hit or not purely by their pre-throw routine.

There are exceptions, pepi throws so fast and misses so infrequently that it's nearly impossible to call.
But for all the international guys - I was batting around .900 for calling the shots at the end of the day.   

Christian threw better when i was shouting at him (we proved this by my not shouting one round and he missed all 5) , Uwe throws better with a slow windup and less power - which is something he has a hard time doing - he just wants to throw everything at full power . I have no idea what my tells are, but would be interesting to find out.

Louis pons varies his windup number and you can generally tell if he'll hit or not, likewise with jaegoor, if he starts with a lot of rotations, he'll generally miss.
Probably indications that they've started thinking about the throw and are not just letting muscle memory do the job. With the top guys who do a lot of training, thinking about the throw is their worst enemy.
Jaegoor occasionally shows nerves in front of a noisy crowd. He's a lot better than he was a couple years ago (as the fact that he's won the big competition outright twice shows) - but every now and then the nerves still occasionally show.

I was slinging in a field behind a school with a few friend when we had the great (sarcasm) idea to see if we could throw a stone over the field and on top of the roof of the school. Apparently I could, and also across the parking lot, over the trees, over a sidewalk and two streets and into a woman's front yard (a distance of about 300 meters). Not long after a middle-aged woman comes walking behind the school with her husband and screams, "You almost hit a child!"
At first me and my friends thought she was talking about me almost being hit by my friend who let go of the release cord a bit too late, but then she clarified that the stone had landed within three meters of her son. I felt really bad about putting her son in danger and never again did I sling anywhere near a residential area.

TobyAttle wrote on Jun 5^th, 2017 at 11:30pm:


that's strange . if its 300m over trees and a school that means she couldn't see you. how did she know you did that?

Man, i was just at the lake near my House which had become my usual slinging place because theres plenty of good stones and when noone its in the lake is perfectly safe. So as i was slinging a couple of passersby were interested in what i was doing and found it quite interesting. There was also a guy on a holiday trip from San Francisco who striked up a conversation because he thought it was interesting. After that, a group of 13 kids probably from a neaby Kindergarden saw me and were totally psyched and insisted i show them a couple of times.
So up to that Point a really nice time doing my thing without any Problems like all the times before. I carried on slinging for a bit after the kids went, and then took the long way around the lake back home.
Then, on the other side of the lake i was stopped by three (!) police cars (theres always police close to the lake because of drug deals) who asked for my Papers and asked me to give them my Sling because someone complained to them about someone using a Slingshot at the lake. They have to go after that of course, some Slingshots arent legal, at least not to use around public places.
So i gave them my Sling, told them what i was doing and they said (what i knew beforheand anyhow) that my Sling (any kind of real Sling) is legally fine. They still advised me to go to some other place in the future.
Pretty bummed about that. Pefect place and a lot of positive reactions from the people. Except for that one. Iam pretty certain it was one of the many elderly who are feeding ducks or generally loitering around the lake who was filing the complaint.

The Police was very relaxed and didnt make any fuss about it. But its quite obvious i believe that im not out to do mischief

Kick wrote on Feb 26^th, 2017 at 2:33am:

I was slinging down by the wash down the road from my house and i throw at a fat limb with knots and gnarls on it for practice, and it was from my split pouch paracord sling and i could feel it just hit the target and just thud. That is satisfaction my man!

I usually go out to a local park to sling at the river across from Philadelphia.  When Pokémon Go came out, I played it for a bit. But the park I went to was a HUGE Hotspot for the game. I would use  the game to drum up interest before I got banned for using a 'rooted' phone. I would set tge lures at tge stops. And people would sit on the benches  playing the gane, and watching me sling. It bought ALOT of interest.  I usually carry and few extra seat help slings to either lend to people who want to learn, or give away with business cards.  It was a great way to use the game for 'free marketing '  some people would know what it was I was doing. But  alot would think I was fishing or crabbing for some dumb reason.