Thearos
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Obvious, really-- but here goes. I was slinging with with go-to sling, a simple knotted affair made with thick laundry line (PJ sling without woven pouch); length: finger-tip to just beyond elbow. After some target shooting (23m), I took some pot shots at a tree about 63m away (distance estimated using range-finder on phone). Alignment was good (at first, before I got annoyed), but distance was consistently short. Ammo was irregular rocks (cliff-fall), about golfball sized. Technique was overhead, one rotation.
So I took a few more shots using my older slings (jute, thin braided cords, small woven pouch; length: fingertip to near shoulder), with helicopter style (three overhead rotations to build up speed and tension, then, ideally, well-timed release to avoid slack problems). I consistently overshot the tree, sometimes hit the foliage, and more often got orientation problems.
So: sling length matters; thickness of cords matters; ammo matters (irregularly-shaped ammo leads to rapid drop at the end).
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