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Re: Projectile Shape
Reply #45 - Jan 31^st, 2004 at 12:39pm

Re the demoralizing buzz, .....yep, there's a lot to that. I went to Jr. HighSchool in tuff town & for fun over lunch a cuple gangs would square off at opposite ends of the football practice field & throw rocks at each other. Anyway, I had small sling even then & a lucky shot w a rough "buzzy" stone over the top of a charge from the other end would break up the charge instantly. Kids knew how to have fun then, huh? That was a long time ago. A wonder none of us ever got killed! mgreenfield

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Reply #46 - Jan 31^st, 2004 at 7:48pm

While I agree that the noise can be demoralizing (I've heard them whip past my head many times), I do believe the sling was an effective weapon as well. For example, the romans developed tongs to remove slingstones from wounded soldiers. I'm confident that a sling in the right hands with the right ammo could be very deadly.

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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: Projectile Shape Reply #47 - Feb 1^st, 2004 at 11:03am I tested my pink concrete ammo today, but with my first hit, the ammo smasch into hunderds of pieces... So it´s more for long shots like my daughter slinged. They landed soft in the snow. And was pretty easy to find. Stones work so far best for me. Ulrica
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Re: Projectile Shape
Reply #48 - Feb 1^st, 2004 at 7:22pm

Urlica,

I'm sorry about your pink ammo Sad

It was so... so... beatiful Cry

Last Saturday I tested the plaster-sand-balls. I fit a proportion of the sand and plaster and water this way that I was able to form the balls by the hands, without the molds. They hardened very quickly and were dense enough. I used minimum of the plaster, only for getting the good cohesion. They flew like a quite good stones, but some smashed up durring the release. Getting the good proportion require some tries but it is pretty quick and cheap way.

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In the shape, structure and position of each stone, there is recorded a small piece of history. So, slinging them, we add a bit of our history to them.

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