Easter is approaching. I think it is egg challenge time. If you can afford it.  I will probably be using a plastic egg this year.

For the uninitiated, the egg challenge is to make a video involving an egg being broken by some means with a sling, and to try and make it entertaining. 

Past year's entries:
2024: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1709701611
2023: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1678415870
2022: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1647305749

Let's go!

First the hard part.....figuring out what to do.  ;D

High roller, I used a real egg! But just one  ;D

https://youtu.be/pOR-ysKNctw

Love it! :thumb:
A few of those chalk eggs were sooooo close.  That reminds me of something.  With dry chalk it shatters, like you were doing.  If you soak it in water for a handful of minutes first, it splatters.  Not better or worse.  Just another fun thing to do with chalk slinging.

I like seeing the swing path from the splattered colors! That might be a useful diagnostic. Fun video, I liked the chalk especially.

Thanks for getting this going! I actually totally forgot about it. time to go get some eggs.

Seeing as I missed the pumpkin I better give this a go

joe_meadmaker wrote on Apr 7^th, 2025 at 11:19pm:

If you soak it in water for a handful of minutes first, it splatters.

Whoa, I had no idea, definitely have to try this! Adding splatters to the mix would be so cool.


IronGoober wrote on Apr 7^th, 2025 at 11:32pm:

I like seeing the swing path from the splattered colors!

Ha yeah I didn't think about it that way, but it's a good retrospective aim measurement! It's actually sort of in line with a game idea I had while doing the tennis ball segment.

Pick some fairly close distance to a wall like I had here (probably anything < 10m) and sling at it with a tennis ball with the goal being to get it to come straight back to you so you can catch it. See how many times in a row you can do that without missing! I'm not sure yet if a catch after it hits the ground would count, but we could vary that for easy and hard mode.

It makes for a great practice exercise too since it forces you to:

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Aim fairly well, despite the close distance. Although I suppose you could increase the distance, there's only so far you could go even with a powerful throw since it isn't going to bounce back at an arc.

Release horizontally straight, not at too much of an angle left or right.

Release vertically straight/flat/don't arc since then the ball will bounce down towards the ground.

Have proper rifling spin on the ball, otherwise it will bounce off at an angle.

Work on your reflexes! Closer distances would be even harder since you'd have to react faster, but again there's going to be a practical limit.
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Haven't really tried it yet since I don't have any good walls nearby(the one in this video isn't super easy to get to and the field is often in use). But seems like it could be good fun for a leaderboard sort of thing like the can challenge!

"Correct rifling spin."

My tennis balls consistently bounce to the right when they land.  I get the feeling you'd see something similar off a wall.

ScantPalaver wrote on Apr 8^th, 2025 at 8:54pm:

"Correct rifling spin." My tennis balls consistently bounce to the right when they land.  I get the feeling you'd see something similar off a wall.

Check out my egg challenge video, you'll see otherwise  ;)

Bouncing to the right when they hit the ground actually indicates that you probably are releasing with rifling spin and they would likely come directly back at you from a wall, assuming you are right-handed. Ammo that is rifled would be released out of a right-handed pouch spinning clockwise when looked at from the back(with a side-arm throw), meaning the bottom of the ammo(6 o'clock) would be traveling left(also looked at from the back). So assuming it doesn't hit anything and eventually reaches the ground, that left-spin on the bottom would propel the ball to the right just like you were seeing. And if that's the case, then that means the "front" of the ball would be at the center axis of the rifle spiral and wouldn't be moving hardly at all and thus shouldn't bounce off in one direction or another when hitting a wall, but straight back at you.

Give it a try! You might be surprised how it turns out!

Oh.  Yeah.  That makes sense.  I wish I could find a wall I could use.

Ha yeah I've been looking around trying to find a good one myself. Seems like it could be fun if I can find one and spend some time fiddling with it!

Here's my entry. Nothing fancy, but I got it on the second take.

https://youtu.be/v6PQE46woJc

Dang, nice shot!

I'm jealous of all your wide open spaces. We've gotta drive quite a ways to get to anything like that down here.

IG's video: Well, I hit the egg first shot, so here's me slinging at another rock.  ;D

Killer throw man!  :)

Travelling down to the south coast today, and there is a great stone beach also. Fingers crossed, will be able to do the egg challenge at some stupidly long distance.

I sure hope so! Build a bunker for the camera near the egg!

Super cool AA! :thumb:

I'll be at the egg coloring celebration at mom and dad's this coming weekend.  So I'll have the usual targets available after that.  Not sure what I'm doing yet.  Probably a repeat of something.  Maybe pendulum, maybe aerial target, maybe 30 meter attempt...
Not sure yet.  We'll see.

I hope to catch the last carriage of this train! :)
The weather is not so good now, but we still managed to make a video:)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIpEUCJCW-u/?igsh=YWFjOHZ2N2tmeTJ0

Filmed my egg challenge, but still trying to find the time to edit it…
In the meantime, there was some egg painting at the place I’m staying at. I didn’t do any, but guess which which one is my mums…
;D

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Haaaa that's awesome! Get the whole family in on it!

Bit late, but here it is: https://youtu.be/rr8IjOQ3i5k
Couldn’t measure the distances, but my guess is the first position was roughly ~50m, and the second ~70m.

Archaic Arms wrote on Apr 20^th, 2025 at 8:10am:

Filmed my egg challenge, but still trying to find the time to edit it… In the meantime, there was some egg painting at the place I’m staying at. I didn’t do any, but guess which which one is my mums… ;D

At first glance, I thought you were going to do the egg challenge with Fabergé eggs  ;D

Good lord that is so far, nice job! Some of those zooms, the egg was like 4 pixels  ;D

Awesome! :thumb:


I still have to get mine up too.  I'll have it posted tomorrow some time.

Very impressive shot

Nothing special from me but good to have a practice session

https://youtu.be/G9Lcrx_H4Bo?si=De6p1sOwI3QpUm0Y

I love seeing all these entries!  The egg challenge often seems to be pretty quiet.


Here's mine: https://youtu.be/i4Tc_K4aizo

Found this one in the wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJbxDAQIxo8

Good work, everyone, these were fun to watch!

Nice! I gotta try that swinging target sometime, that looks hard!