Bill Skinner
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Went to the Alabama River yesterday, I planned to do a bit of slinging.
Got there and all my gravel beds were covered with silt that washed down from the banks. Still, with a bit of poking with my toe at likely looking humps, I was able to gather a nice pile of rocks. My accuracy didn't suffer as much as I thought it might, I was throwing at stumps and logs and hit a fair number.
What did surprise me was my lack of distance. I can normally throw a rock around 150ish meters, I wasn't able to get much past 100 unless I really concentrated on getting the angle correct. I had the force but not the angle. Out to about 15-20 meters or so, it wasn't a problem, beyond that, I had lots of overs and unders. Plus the occasional one way off to the left when I used a lighter rock.
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