https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lScCnPKBkWk

Wonderful execution, as always. Love this concept. I think that some penetration/damage tests at 20m or something along those lines is in order. With comparison to a sling with a similar weight of projectile and a comparison to a bow of similar energy (if you can manage the draw weight).  It would prove the concept that you get the advantage of the sling range with more penetrating power than a bow.

Excellent video!  You put things together in a combination of information, entertainment, and level of production that I think only Morningstar's videos are on par with.  Wonder when that guy's going to make another one. ::)

Very nice video, I was re watching some of your older ones wondering when you would post again, lucky me.

I really appreciate your content Lewis, thanks.

😁👍

IronGoober wrote on Mar 20^th, 2025 at 9:54pm:

Wonderful execution, as always. Love this concept. I think that some penetration/damage tests at 20m or something along those lines is in order. With comparison to a sling with a similar weight of projectile and a comparison to a bow of similar energy (if you can manage the draw weight).  It would prove the concept that you get the advantage of the sling range with more penetrating power than a bow.

Thanks! really appreciate it.
Definitely will be doing something along these lines. I myself am very curious how the two will compare.

joe_meadmaker wrote on Mar 20^th, 2025 at 10:48pm:

Excellent video!  You put things together in a combination of information, entertainment, and level of production that I think only Morningstar's videos are on par with.  Wonder when that guy's going to make another one. ::)

Thank you Joe! it means a lot.

xud9a - call me zud 👍 wrote on Mar 21^st, 2025 at 6:11am:

I really appreciate your content Lewis, thanks. 😁👍

Always glad to hear it's not just me that finds these things interesting! Thanks!

louisdebonald wrote on Mar 20^th, 2025 at 11:59pm:

Very nice video, I was re watching some of your older ones wondering when you would post again, lucky me.

Glad you liked it! Aiming for lots this year.

This has prob'ly been asked and answered a bunch of times, but a lot of the pictures and recreations of plumbata use a gland-shaped weight.  If it's gland-shaped, could it be slung?  I know the kestros is a thing, so the goal of slinging an arrow/dart already has a solution, I'm just thinking along the lines of, "this shape is like this shape, so by association, this action must be possible."

Stals wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2025 at 3:51pm:

This has prob'ly been asked and answered a bunch of times, but a lot of the pictures and recreations of plumbata use a gland-shaped weight.  If it's gland-shaped, could it be slung?  I know the kestros is a thing, so the goal of slinging an arrow/dart already has a solution, I'm just thinking along the lines of, "this shape is like this shape, so by association, this action must be possible."

It wouldn't really be possible to balance it in a sling pouch. I think the shape is just because it's aerodynamic, or more likely it's just easiest and most efficient to have a somewhat rounded shape.

Kick wrote on Apr 1^st, 2025 at 4:03pm:

more likely it's just easiest and most efficient to have a somewhat rounded shape.

Ha! Yep!


This isn't a plumbata.  But it is a sling projectile with an arrow shaft sticking out of it.  And the arrow shaft does straighten out in flight.

https://youtu.be/gYE7Rm_7kuM

Excellent video.  Thank you.