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Interesting projectile
Jun 5th, 2019 at 1:56pm
 
1 Eur a piece, rugby shaped tennisball dog toy. I will test it out soon and if it slings well go back and buy some more.
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Reply #1 - Jun 5th, 2019 at 2:23pm
 
That's pretty cool.  It would be interesting to see a distance throwing test between that and a normal tennis ball.
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Reply #2 - Jun 5th, 2019 at 4:26pm
 
I've seen these but not for 1€! Great find.
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Reply #3 - Jun 5th, 2019 at 8:34pm
 
I'd like to try slinging that.  I'll bet it really flies.
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Reply #4 - Jun 6th, 2019 at 5:15am
 
Nice! Where did you find this?
And are they resilient?
I had issues with cheapest tennis balls: they won't stand twenty minutes of slinging against a wall, and all of them end up split in two. Switching to standart quality ball, there was no problem any more, but the cost was almost double...
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Reply #5 - Jun 6th, 2019 at 6:19am
 
Frondeur wrote on Jun 6th, 2019 at 5:15am:
Nice! Where did you find this?
And are they resilient?
I had issues with cheapest tennis balls: they won't stand twenty minutes of slinging against a wall, and all of them end up split in two. Switching to standart quality ball, there was no problem any more, but the cost was almost double...


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You can see the seam in the middle. It's a squaky toy too. It would probably snap in half the first time you sling it hard against a wall point first. So definitely need a soft backstop for these.

One problem, I slung this one but I had a misthrow, it flew in the bushes and I still have to refind it.  Tongue I think I will still buy some more though. They would look great in any ammo collection.
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Reply #6 - Jun 6th, 2019 at 6:38am
 
One problem for me would be the area I sling in. Lots of bushes and long grass. I just lost a tennis ball today and those don't bounce in crazy unpredictable directions like a rugby ball shape would.
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Reply #7 - Jun 6th, 2019 at 3:08pm
 
I also have a rugby dog toy. It's a little bigger.
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