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Lathron Ex Member	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #225 - Sep 3^rd, 2006 at 2:42pm simplest kestros ever: take your dart, tie a reasonably thin string around the end about as long as your favorite sling folded, whirl it around and let it loose altogether. maybe not the most practical but at least you will see if your dart is properly made and flies well
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lobohunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline where be a rock and a string there be a sling Posts: 1985 Cottage Grove or Gender:	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #226 - Sep 5^th, 2006 at 8:10pm has any one tried a plumbatae in a ordinsry sling I am betting
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DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #227 - Sep 26^th, 2006 at 1:00am ttt
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siguy Interfector Viris Spurii Offline si vis pacem para bellum Posts: 1714 connecticut Gender:	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #228 - Sep 26^th, 2006 at 4:22pm i can't say i have ever tried a "plumb bob" in my sling. to tell you the truth, i have never even held a real one. the closest i have ever come is when i tied a string to the eye in an eyescrew and used the point as the point.
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Re: Cestrosphendon
Reply #229 - Sep 30^th, 2006 at 1:14pm

[quote]This is a Roman site and I know the Cestro was inventede by Greeks to kill Romans [/quote]

Depends entirely on what era romans you're talking about. The holy roman empire was greek in culture and language and location as well I think.

So without wading through 24 pages of posts - is there a reproduction cetrosp..etc rig in there that someone's made and used ?

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Reply #230 - Sep 30^th, 2006 at 4:21pm

At least 3, one this thread, one in an other and I forgot where the third was mentioned.
So it will be nearer 50 pages if you are going to read Grin

But use the search funtion and you might be able to find it a bit faster.
But of course you will miss a lot of fun that way.

Willeke

(PS, the first page of this thread is holding much of the good stuff so start there.) Wink

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #231 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 2:55pm lol I think you sort of missed the point willeke, I don't want to wade through all fifty pages and typing in cestrospondon in the search engine brings up pretty much all of them :-)
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Willeke Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Give me some string and I know what to do. Posts: 2072 Netherlands Gender:	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #232 - Oct 2^nd, 2006 at 4:07pm C_A You missed my point Just start reading at page one of this thread. (From the look of it you could consentrate on the posts with pictures and the first few long ones right after them. Just scan over the rest of the posts, but many of them are not worth much. Willeke
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DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #233 - Nov 24^th, 2006 at 10:09pm I recall reading somewhere where Bertrand's recreation of the cestrosphendone had a range of 70 meters. How does that compare with the most recent distances attained by those on this thread who have made cestrosphendones? Also, has anyone recorded their casts on video?
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Re: Cestrosphendon
Reply #236 - Apr 16^th, 2007 at 11:27am

Has anyone ever thought that the cestrophendon was two chords tied together at the release knot and at the finger loop??? It has two strings that are looped over the front and back of the "dart" and then is released like a regular sling... I've tried this, and it works quite well...I've gotten 230 yd distances with it using the greek underhand style...
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Reply #237 - Apr 19^th, 2007 at 4:11am

P.W._Smith wrote on Apr 16^th, 2007 at 11:27am:

Has anyone ever thought that the cestrophendon was two chords tied together at the release knot and at the finger loop??? It has two strings that are looped over the front and back of the "dart" and then is released like a regular sling... I've tried this, and it works quite well...I've gotten 230 yd distances with it using the greek underhand style...
Derek

Well, that's about a 300% increase over Bertrand's published distance. Do you have photos or sketches of the rig and dart that you could post?

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Re: Cestrosphendon
Reply #238 - Apr 19^th, 2007 at 3:54pm

P.W._Smith,

Your idea reminds me of something Yurek described, in

reply #41

in this topic. Here is a copy of his drawing; is this similar to your idea?

I do not know if he ever made one of these, but two other people did and reported that the design works. Three people, now, if yours is the same idea. 230 yards is very respectable!

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Thomas Ex Member Rocks? Gender:	Re: Cestrosphendon Reply #239 - Apr 19^th, 2007 at 7:00pm Nearly 2-1/2 football fields--hmmmm!
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