NooneOfConsequence
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Jauke, as you know, I am a big fan of changing the geometry of a sling to control performance. I believe the traditional sling is an excellent general purpose launcher, but it lacks constraints that could enhance slinging performance and consistency. If you add limits, then the sling becomes more consistent, but less flexible to variations in ammo or throwing style. Most of Jaegoor's advice focuses on the performance and consistency of the slinger, not the sling, so I think he sometimes misses what you are trying to say. I think you are trying to isolate those two things and learn something specific about the sling geometry, and Jaegoor is missing that fact. At least it seems so, because he keeps redirecting the conversation back to the slinger instead of focusing on the sling like you are trying to do. Those are two separate conversations.
On the topic of sling geometry... I'm still not sure why you consider the Y-sling so much different from other slings. If you make one side of a normal sling wider and wider... at what point in the transformation does it become a Y sling? Where does the fundamental transformation occur? Is it when the ammo leaves the pouch between two cords instead of to the side of a single cord? What if the top of the pouch between the two cords is not perpendicular to the direction of the throw but at an angle? Then it will behave more like a traditional sling again and you might even be able to use it with biconical ammo!
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