Hobb
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I fire off irregularly-shaped rocks, and the elongated ones will stabilize "point" first if I get a decent cast. I've been throwing overhand, and not every cast would keep the stone in the air long enough for this to happen. If anybody has any techniques for a more stable spin at the point of launch for an overhand cast (I know techstuff advocates modifications to the sling, but I'm a bit of a traditionalist), I think I'd get more range. Even on the decent casts, the stone has to fight the air until it does stabilize, which has to be slowing it down.
I recently began playing around with other types of casts, and the underhand puts my rocks about 10% further out. I thought it was a body mechanics thing, but maybe I need to pay attention to the spin at the point of launch.
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