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Message started by Gard on Oct 12th, 2005 at 9:36am

Title: When did you start slinging?
Post by Gard on Oct 12th, 2005 at 9:36am
For curiosity, I would like to know:
When did you start slinging?
What age did you start slinging?
Why did you start slinging/where did you hear about it?

Myself, I started the autumn 2004, so I've been slinging exactly one year now, and I was 11 year old when I started.
I wanted to sling since I first heard about David and Goliath, but I didn't do it before I read The Clan Of The Cave Bear written by Jean M. Auel.

Gard :)

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Black_Snow28 on Oct 12th, 2005 at 11:51am
I started summer this year.  That makes me one hell of a noob.  I started at fifteen.  I first heard about it from the david and goliath.  Then one of my friends showed me a sling that he made.  In the summer I was trying to make a bow out of bamboo  ::). I found some string in the closit.  I strung the bow pulled it back and it craked in half and hit me on the head.  So i went to keep the string back in the closit.  That's when I saw an old pair of jeans in the closit and that made me thought and thats where I was cutting up the jeans and slinging tennis balls around the garden.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Matthias on Oct 12th, 2005 at 1:59pm
Summer of 1987 - we had a "chat" about this the other day so I decided to see if I could pin it down closer than "a long time ago". Chalk another one up for Auel - I bet she was responsible for at least half of the Atlatl resurgence as well.

Matthias

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Kold on Oct 12th, 2005 at 2:37pm
I have been slinging since 1995. I also started to use and make bolas along with the sling at the same time.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Crater_Caster on Oct 12th, 2005 at 5:32pm
I started around last april. (But november if you count staff slings as slinging).

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Smudge on Oct 12th, 2005 at 6:13pm
I started in 2001 after reading the book Redwall by Brian Jacques.  One of the pictures above the chapters had a picture of a sling and Jacques actually described a little how it was used, so I had to fill in the blanks for myself.  

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Mikeel on Oct 12th, 2005 at 6:15pm
August 12, 2005


Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Smudge on Oct 12th, 2005 at 6:28pm
Exactly.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Smudge on Oct 12th, 2005 at 6:28pm
What time of day? ;D

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Gun on Oct 12th, 2005 at 8:03pm
I was first intoduced to slingings be a welder friend of mine at the trade school. He would sling out at break. Then i picked up a magazine called the Backwoods Man. They have a lot have good articles from primative things to blacksmithing and gun collecting. They had a pretty long article on slings in one months issue. I must have read that article a thousand times. Well the person who wrote it desirves the credit for me starting. I don't remember his name but I owe him a lot.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by ben_banned on Oct 12th, 2005 at 9:03pm
1 or 2 ago i dont really sling to much though just a fan of weapons

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by tint on Oct 12th, 2005 at 9:25pm
Roughly 10 years.  There was a rerun of the movie "King David" on TV.  I taped it and saw the slinging scenes over and over.  Cut an old sock up and made my first sling that night.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Wrenn on Oct 12th, 2005 at 9:32pm
I started in 1985 when I was 14 after reading Clan of the Cave Bear. I continued slinging until I finished high school then didnt do it much until a few weeks ago when I got back into slinging seriously.

Currently concentrating on short range accuracy with tennis balls in the park until I can find a decent long range location ;-)

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by lobohunter on Oct 12th, 2005 at 11:12pm
first started slinging in 1978. just putsz with it till 1994 until i read cliff savages book from then on i have been avidly hooked

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by MammotHunter on Oct 12th, 2005 at 11:26pm
Sometime late last year, I made my first sling out of a length of fabric and some old bootlaces. Launched a tennis ball with it on my first try, and I was hooked.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Leeds_Lobber on Oct 13th, 2005 at 9:54am
About 25 years ago. My brother used French Arrows, which are cool, but I was inspired to try by a 2000AD Comic character called Fink angel, who used a sling - nearly took out Judge Dredd with one, which is cool!

Didn't get very far, I couldn't work out how to make a pouch (heck, i was only 12) so dropped it until I was about 20 and came up with the reversed fold pouch i use now.

Pat


Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Mikeel on Oct 13th, 2005 at 7:16pm

wrote on Oct 12th, 2005 at 6:28pm:
Exactly.

What time of day? ;D


I think it was about 1:30pm.  :D

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by slingerkid on Oct 14th, 2005 at 3:45am
I started slinging maybe two weeks ago, max. (to blackSnow28 - i'm more of a noob than you!  :D)
That means i was (and still am) 13 years old.
I always wanted to learn to sling, but never had any way to find out how to make one and couldn't be bothered experementing. Then one day i felt like doing a search on google for 'slings, weapon' and found this site. My first shots went only 10 meters at most -  but then i realised i needed way bigger ammo :)

Awsome website.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by loh_kah_hoe on Oct 14th, 2005 at 9:46pm
I'm just learning after I discovered this website in this year.I don't know how to sling!Most of the time I fail.

I was impressed by the power of the sling after reading a few articles.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Zorrro on Oct 21st, 2005 at 1:40pm
when i was  11 years old, that was about  1967 i remember  going into a forbidden area of school , to sling some fruits of hipocastaneum we call "castaņas locas"

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Hellfire on Oct 21st, 2005 at 2:14pm

wrote on Oct 12th, 2005 at 6:13pm:
I started in 2001 after reading the book Redwall by Brian Jacques.  One of the pictures above the chapters had a picture of a sling and Jacques actually described a little how it was used, so I had to fill in the blanks for myself.  



In the version I read, he kept calling what is obviosly a treb a ballista, overexaggerates the power of javelins, makes longbows out of green wood, Matthias somehow makes a crossbow and shoots Cheesethief, dressed up like a warlord, and the strategies were crap, but it did get me interesting in slings also and it did get me interested in bows. I don't like the way Jaques keeps on puttin up misinformation, but it at least got me somewhere.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Smudge on Oct 21st, 2005 at 4:24pm
You have to remember that he wrote that book with no research on weapons and no internet back in the 80's.  He basically used what was in his own head, so he didn't do so bad.  His later books are much more realistic and accurate since he has obviously done some research.  It was the spring board that got me into primitive weapons, so I have to give him that!

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Tumakas on Oct 23rd, 2005 at 11:21pm
I started 3 days ago, and made my first sling 2 days ago. Last night i made my 3rd and best sling yet, it's a braided one like in one of the tutorials. So far i have a accuracy of hitting within 5 feet of my target at a range of 2 inches....

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Grautr on Oct 24th, 2005 at 1:13pm
I started slinging about 3 months ago.

A late starter at 35 but my plan is long term. Knowing that by the time I get any good It will also be time for me to pop my clogs my intension is to teach my son to use a sling from an early age.

I knew about slings from quite an early age. My father told me that he made one as a kid but never took the time to show me how to use one. Being English I was going to take up archery, which was after all our national sport before football. But after finding the old railway line near here, and thus an infinte supply of munition, I went for the sling.

Title: Re: When did you start slinging?
Post by Ian_Robertson on Oct 25th, 2005 at 7:33pm
I started slinging back in the mid-60s, with the encouragement of my dad. He used a sling when he was a kid, and amused my brother and I greatly with the story of how he nearly killed his uncle with a sling stone, just as he was walking out of a barn door.

My mother made my first sling, following dad's directions, out of a strip of cloth about 2 inches wide. She simply folded over both lateral edges of the two ends (i.e., angling inward, away from what became the pouch area) and hemmed them on her sewing machine. Simple, but worked really well. I found that old cloth sling this summer when I went back to visit my mom.

My brother and I became very effective with various kinds of slings and practiced all the time. I fondly recall the time when a group of tough older kids started pelting us with rocks, thinking we were out of their range. They wound up running for it...

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