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mass, energy, momentum?
Aug 21st, 2020 at 10:27am
 
Those that remember me, thank you.  Where I learned to sling is now all built up.  I could not sling there without smashing windows.  I t is getting harder to get out there and practice.

I weighed the ideal rock that I used to use.  It is four ounces.
It carries 1/4 mile.  Anyone can calculate the energy and momentum?
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Reply #1 - Aug 21st, 2020 at 11:55am
 
Considering air resistance of the type of quartz I throw, I think 300 feet per second is about right.  A one ounce load of shot at 1200 ft per second compares to my four ounces of rock at 300 ft per second.  No wonder the rabbit was a head and the hind legs, with nothing of the middle left over.
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Reply #2 - Aug 21st, 2020 at 12:15pm
 
wrong Category to post this maybe someone can move it.

1/4 miles ~400m
vacuum minimum velocity = 62m/s
my guesstimation of real velocity in air = 76m/s

4oz=113.398g
energy 332 Joules
momentum 8.6 kg*m/s

details about sling and stone?(length mass shapes design) and or pictures?
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Reply #3 - Aug 21st, 2020 at 12:16pm
 
I fear you might have posted to the wrong board...
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Reply #4 - Aug 21st, 2020 at 12:20pm
 
also how did you spotted where it landed?
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Reply #5 - Aug 21st, 2020 at 11:00pm
 
It sailed over a road 1/4 mile away and kicked up a dust cloud in a field on the other side.  That was a typical throw.  Some when alot further for unkown reasons. Stone was quartz ovoids, 4 oz.  sling doubled up 6'. full spin method like hammer throw.
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Reply #6 - Aug 22nd, 2020 at 5:43am
 
KnollSlinger wrote on Aug 21st, 2020 at 11:00pm:
full spin method like hammer throw.

I guess you mean pirouette style like timpa because hammer throw is a two arms throw
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Reply #7 - Aug 22nd, 2020 at 4:32pm
 
I introduced the spin method to this group circa 2005.  One hand yes,but the other hand is used for balance.
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Reply #8 - Sep 4th, 2020 at 6:24pm
 
Ok, let's take a look at .45 ACP from a 1911:

Bullet: 0.525714 ounces
velocity: 850 feet per second
momentum: in foot pounds: 27.93

Sling
Bullet: 4 ounces
Velocity: 249.344 feet per second
momentum: in foot pounds: 62.34

ratio sling over 45 automatic: 62.34/27.93 = 2.23

roughly twice.  Advantage sling.

energy in units of feet & ounces:
.45 ACP: 189,914.1825
sling     : 124,344.8607

So you see, for stopping power and dramatic flesh removal,
the sling wins.
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Reply #9 - Sep 5th, 2020 at 1:05am
 
KnollSlinger wrote on Sep 4th, 2020 at 6:24pm:
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Bullet: 4 ounces
Velocity: 249.344 feet per second
momentum: in foot pounds: 62.34

Is a pirouette style being used to achieve this speed?
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Reply #10 - Sep 5th, 2020 at 5:26am
 
It is a style that looks like a discus or hammer thrower.  I used
to throw the discus, pitch baseball, and do shot-put.  Sling for me was always about spinning my entire body and using a "long sling" the knots at eye level, the pocket just touches the ground.  This was my main recreation in high-school and college as I lived on 20 acres with nothing next to that even.
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Reply #11 - Sep 5th, 2020 at 10:13am
 
That's cool.  I only joined the forum a couple years ago (give or take), and that style has usually been referred to as 'pirouette'.  But I think 'discus' is more descriptive of what is actually being done.  Good description.
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Reply #12 - Sep 5th, 2020 at 10:39am
 
If you’re judging purely on energy or momentum... the olympic hammer throw is on par with a .308 hunting rifle.

If I had to defend my life though... I think I’d prefer a .45 to a sling.
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Reply #13 - Sep 6th, 2020 at 6:36pm
 
I would be interested to see how much kinetic energy could be generated with a projectile twice the weight.
Either way, I find it a bit funny how efficiency drops of with longer slings. It's certainly not a linear increase in power from short ones.
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Reply #14 - Sep 8th, 2020 at 6:44pm
 

An american football has a drag coefficient of about .2, and a 4 oz projectile weighs 1750 grains. I plugged these factors into a ballistic calculator with a 500 f/s initial velocity (the calculator's minimum) and it spat out the attached. Note the 1044 inch drop at 400 yards, equivalent to about 87 feet.

https://www.vcalc.com/wiki/vCalc/Ballistic+Range This calculator gives an absolute maximum of 589 meters of flight with 45 degrees and 249 f/s without drag or other effects, which would be considerable with any projectile, especially with a diameter of about an inch and football shape's coefficient of drag.

I don't think these numbers calculated here are quite reasonable, as a .45 ACP is also listed in the tables as having about 350 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. That's a pretty good amount for a handgun.

Part of the issue is we need a very specific range, not measured in miles, to get this down properly, along with the ballistic coefficient, and a bunch of other data. As the longest recorded shots are all bracketing this range of 400-500 meters, with specialized projectiles having extremely good ballistics, I think there needs to be some more exact measurement before we ascribe velocities and "muzzle" energy to anything.

Someday I'll not be in grad school anymore, and have time to build an online slinging ballistics calculator...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_coefficient

https://web.archive.org/web/20120920043403/http://slinging.org/index.php?page=sl...

http://baseball.physics.illinois.edu/clanet/ClanetSportsBallistics.pdf

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2012.04.018 Drag of american footballs.

https://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj_simp-5.1.cgi Ballistic Calculator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.45_ACP
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