i have made the braided sling idea and the sling in 20 steps ideas found in the article sections. and i am going to make the 3 string sling soon. but i have started reading more of this forum and i am wondering. you guys are giving awesome ideas for these long distance slings and stuff like that. why dont you make articles for them and submit them so that our less talented people on the forum (me) can make them to! lol like i have a couple ideas too. the fishing line idea i saw was awesome. and i like what i read here. but you guys were talking about thin metal wires in another post and like where would you get those?  ???lol i cant wait to make a long distance sling. i live right on a huge river so i have all the room in the world to sling YES!  


oh and another thing. when i first started slinging, i never would have thought that it required so much practice. it looks so easy. and awesome! but now i realize that once you start you just cant stop and you want to be better and better. i have been aiming at the same target in my HUGE backyard for a while. and i finally hit it dead on after like 50000 tries lol! and i completly took out the target. i felt so awesome and i had such an amazing feeling. i think that is the most accomplished i have ever felt in my life. it is hard for me to aim since i have little eye hand co-ordination. but for some reason when i am slinging i am feeling so alert and good. i'm usually within like 1 meter of the target i am aiming at. but, lol sometimes i am so off and it just goes flying away and i am like DAMNIT! hehehehehehe! but slinging is one of the best experiences in my life!

I'd quite like to know how to weave.  I have made a little primitive tool, a bit like a specific loom for sling pouches, but whenever I have woven before, it always seems too loose at the end.  I have made just one good quality pouch.  It would be nice to have an article on that, I think.
  I think slinging is rewarding too.  I shoot with bows and crossbows, and even air rifles, but they seem quite... easy, I guess.  Especially crossbows (all home made, of course.)  All you need to do is point and click, basically.  Slings are more difficult, and hence, more rewarding, to use.  Also, ammunition is easier to find or make.  (actually, I use chinese crossbows methods, and basically a Chinese quarrel is a bamboo shaft with a leaf shoved on one end for flights.  very easy to make, and I don't need to go to the beach to do it.)  The only other weapon where I need anywhere near this amount of skill to use is the atlatl, but even that is easier than slinging.

theres some info in the random weapons forum.  If you dont understand what they look like you can search google or yahoo images for pics.  It is basically a stick thats an extension of the throwing arm that helps in the throwing of "darts" by almost doubling the distance and power.  i tried to make one out of a dead pine branch and failed misirably.  I think it would be fun to bet someone that you could throw a dart farther then them let them use their regular arm and then you whip out the atlatl and launch one a far distance farther then them.  I havent done it myself but i read it in a book.  Hope this helps

awesome! it sounds amazingly friendly! i think i just may look around about them!