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Dec 10th, 2017 at 10:55pm
 
Had a little find in a camping store (Kathmandu) the other day.
Mini boche or boules
35mm hollow steel balls ranging from 44-48g.
Haven't slung em yet but soon as I have a good area I'll give them a go.

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Reply #1 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 6:06am
 
What sort of price were they if you don't mind saying? Boules could be good but I can only imagine that they would be expensive to buy online because of shipping and then trying to buy anything in Finland is going to be expensive...
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Reply #2 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 6:34am
 
They were on special for $20 Australian . Don't know what price they were marked down from. Any more expensive and harder to get and I wouldn't have got them but they were right there for 20 so I just grabbed em. Worst case I got a new game to play when camping.
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Reply #3 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 9:53am
 
Yeah that's not bad. Interesting to see how they do in the air.
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Reply #4 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 4:49pm
 
Since they are hollow, imagine the power if you filled the inside with lead  Grin
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Reply #5 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 6:05pm
 
I'm imagining a sore arm after filling them with lead Wink
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Reply #6 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 7:52pm
 
Interesting you say that I had the same thought.
However this will turn them into very expensive ammo with 2 functions that both have a high loss rate.

Long range throwing (lost by being buried or lost in sight when thrown)

And hunting (animals don't like well manicured lawns or indoors, lost in all that scrub)

Gonna have to justify the money for the 6 throws if I'm going to do that.
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Reply #7 - Dec 11th, 2017 at 11:32pm
 
Well, in some places you can get free lead, some tire stores, due to a ban on lead weights in tires, have a bunch lying around they will give to you for free, or extremely cheap, as otherwise, they would have to pay to have them hauled off. You could also go snorkeling in a popular fishing spot in search of lead sinkers to melt down  Grin
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Reply #8 - Dec 12th, 2017 at 6:31am
 
reminds me need to remind my mate to keep the wheel weights !

I've got some of those little boule around somewhere. Never occured to me to throw them away with a sling lol
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Reply #9 - Dec 13th, 2017 at 12:22pm
 
What a coincidence. I have in recent weeks been looking at flea markets full-size Petanque balls.
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Reply #10 - Dec 13th, 2017 at 5:02pm
 
I assume this is for some good timpa footage or just for the game.
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Reply #11 - Dec 15th, 2017 at 9:11am
 
I had the opportunity today to try these out.
Verdict not so good.
Being so slippery and spherical my split pouch was only just holding the ammo when seated correctly so there is a problem with enjoyment.
Throws much the same as the stones of similar size, I don't think there is much dentsity/aerodynamic coefficient advantage due to them being hollow.
They hit hard and are very durable but all in all there not that impressive

Unfortunately
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Reply #12 - Dec 15th, 2017 at 10:01am
 
Mersa wrote on Dec 15th, 2017 at 9:11am:
I had the opportunity today to try these out.
Verdict not so good.
Being so slippery and spherical my split pouch was only just holding the ammo when seated correctly so there is a problem with enjoyment.
Throws much the same as the stones of similar size, I don't think there is much dentsity/aerodynamic coefficient advantage due to them being hollow.
They hit hard and are very durable but all in all there not that impressive

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I had a feeling that It would go something like that.
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Reply #13 - Dec 15th, 2017 at 1:40pm
 
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fill them with lead.
you'll have density close to that of lead and at the same time a hard casing ,lead deforms easily ...
also casing means that you wont worry too much about handling lead during slinging.
use a pouched sling...

it might be difficult to make holes to them though.

edit: now they have density close to that of stone, filled with lead they'll weight 240grams (if i'm correct) with an overall density 10.7g/ml close to that of lead (11,3g/ml). how bored a man can be...
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Reply #14 - Dec 15th, 2017 at 4:16pm
 
Thanks for putting in the effort and trying to find out there end weight parmenion!! Wow over 200 g , didn't think it would be up that high. I will definitely consider it , being that heavy though will put it outside my optimum weight for distance . Throwing 200g+ as hard as I can sounds like shoulder injuries.
But they sound like hard hitting hunting ammo.
But probally much overkill for rabbits.
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