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cram Descens Offline Posts: 131	How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Jun 12^th, 2019 at 9:28am Oh boy another poll . Just curious, how heavy are the projectiles you mostly sling?
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #1 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 10:42am apparently tennis balls weigh about 58 gms. clay ball wise - usually aim for somewhere between 60-70gms.
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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #2 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 11:53am I mostly sling tennis balls but really that's a recent development. I started off with 200g+ stones and I've cut that back a little, when I do use stones, to between 70g and 150g or so.
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JudoP Funditor Offline Rocks away! Posts: 937 UK	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #3 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 12:22pm I sling a variety, probably most comfortable with stones around 70-100g so chose that option.
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Frondeur Junior Member Offline I'm the lead slinger in a hard rock band Posts: 90 France	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #4 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 12:44pm Depends on range... Lighter stones, around 50g for distance and around 125g for target, but I'm trying to switch to something lighter, considering I often have to carry my ammo around... Oh, and 200g or more for very slow warmup throws...
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Reply #5 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 12:54pm

I normally use plastic balls that have been filled with silicon, or ice balls. I have the advantage that most of my slinging is done in my yard. So no problem using ice balls even in the summer. I just have to limit it to taking 12 (+/-) at a time out of the freezer so they don't start melting too much

The plastic balls I use are between 120-130g. I ran a quick calculation of what the ice should be, and that came out at approximately 134g.

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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2811 Gender:	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #6 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 4:03pm Meine glandes. 😁 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15p3CKnzKGo Meine Steine sind schwer. Zwischen 180und 220g
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metalode Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 24 QLD Australia Gender:	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #7 - Jun 12^th, 2019 at 7:26pm Well most common is tennis balls, I have a park/oval out my front door so thats what i get to use the most, although if I can get out of town I prefer more heavy and dense ammo in the 150-200g range.
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cram Descens Offline Posts: 131	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #8 - Jun 13^th, 2019 at 5:10am @ joe_meadmaker I'd like to know how you made the plastic balls
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Reply #9 - Jun 13^th, 2019 at 10:21am

cram wrote on Jun 13^th, 2019 at 5:10am:

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joe_meadmaker I'd like to know how you made the plastic balls Roll Eyes

Sure. They're just plastic street hockey balls. I originally bought them because I was looking for something that was low bounce. They worked for slinging, but didn't have much weight. So I drilled a small hole in each one and filled them up using a caulking gun and tubes of silicon. It took a little time but they work really well now.

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TheJackinati Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 314 Australia Gender:	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #10 - Jun 13^th, 2019 at 12:45pm I'd guess within the ~50-75 gram range. The only sourced ammunition I have which is not lead, is terrible West-Australian limestone rocks. There are tons of them lying around, and they are very porous, angular and rough. Where did all the Gum-nuts go!
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cram Descens Offline Posts: 131	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #11 - Jun 14^th, 2019 at 4:15am @ joe_meadmaker Thanks
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Reply #12 - Jun 14^th, 2019 at 5:17am

Any. 15-500 grams
For target practice I usually pick 70-200 grams stones. I don't really care about the variation in Mass I just pick stones that are slingable, there are not that many, and expect my mind to adapt shot to shot.
Rarely tennis balls.
I'll see what consistent ammo does when I use the concrete ammo.
For range 30-60grams elongated stones work best.

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13680 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #13 - Jun 15^th, 2019 at 9:39pm I generally sling egg sized oval shaped smooth river stones. I've never weighed one but I imagine they're about 100-125g.
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dork Funditor Offline I feel Smurfy when I'm smurfing!!!! You too? Posts: 995 In Beautiful Wisconsin Gender:	Re: How heavy are the projectiles you sling? Reply #14 - Jun 19^th, 2019 at 2:20am I like mine about the weight of a baseball. I most accurate with that.
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Poll
Question: Projectile weight
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Any 4 (25.0%) 0-25g 0 (0.0%) 25-50g 0 (0.0%) 50-75g 7 (43.8%) 75-100g 3 (18.8%) 100-125g 0 (0.0%) 125-150g 2 (12.5%) 150-175g 0 (0.0%) 175-200g 0 (0.0%) 200+g 0 (0.0%) Total votes: 16 « Last Modified by: cram on: Jun 13^th, 2019 at 5:05am »