Slinging.org Forum - sling staff

Zorrro Funditor Offline Yeah, i guess most of us love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 530 Granada (Spain) Gender:	sling staff Jul 21^st, 2004 at 9:20am Hi everybody! i don't know if this topic fits here or in the "other weapons" section... anyway related to slings. Has anyone built/used/seen someone using a fustibal or sling staff? Are they safe to operate? Are they accurate? Are they powerful? Any tips on it's construction and usage?
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Mithras Junior Member Offline Slinging beach pebbles off the Yorkshire coast Posts: 94 East Yorkshire, England Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #1 - Jul 21^st, 2004 at 10:17am Hiya Zorro, Check out a couple of links in the Links section of this site. My web page on staff slinging is also there. My experiences with it are documentated: http://www.geocities.com/zozergames/sling.html Have a read!
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Reply #2 - Jul 21^st, 2004 at 12:14pm

Everyone comes on the forum asking about staff slings... they are so incredibly easy. They are not as accurate as normal slings, but can shoot bigger rocks. They are about as safe as a sling, perhaps slightly less so. They are reasonably powerful, but that depends on how hard you sling, what size the rock is... just like with a sling. Tips on construction... keep it simple, as with everything. Don't try any fancy carved hooks or anything early on, a simple thin extension on the main staff will do, and is safer. Also, keep the pouch simple; a split pouch will not be quite so useful here.

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Reply #3 - Jul 21^st, 2004 at 12:37pm

Hi Miithras nice website and nice info as well, yours look a nice place to enoy slinging a lot
I hope i can build my own webpage soon

I have to try sling staff, it looks very interesting... only i was wondering if it was dangerous for the operator (me) just in line with the swinging direction... well i guess it's more or less like casting with a fishing rod, and i haven't hit myself with the lead weight (so far) Grin

I'll post my experiences with the sling staff.

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english Ex Member	Re: sling staff Reply #4 - Jul 22^nd, 2004 at 3:34am Unless you are in the back of a moving pick up, and you have the staff held over your shoulder, then you won't get hit. Honestly, it's easier than using a normal sling. If you've seen "Return of the Jedi", when the little ewok whacks itself on the head with it's sling. That certainly won't happen.
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Zorrro Funditor Offline Yeah, i guess most of us love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 530 Granada (Spain) Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #5 - Jul 22^nd, 2004 at 4:02am Rigid or rather flexible pole? the longer the pole and sling are, longer range achieved, but harder to handle it, i guess... What pole and sling lenght should i try? (i am 1.86 m height)
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Mithras Junior Member Offline Slinging beach pebbles off the Yorkshire coast Posts: 94 East Yorkshire, England Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #6 - Jul 22^nd, 2004 at 12:09pm Try a metre, or 1.2 metre long see if that's any good. Start longer, you can always trim it down. It must be rigid. Any bend is lost energy. The cords should probably be about half the length of the sling, again start out long and shorten to suit the pole and your style.
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english Ex Member	Re: sling staff Reply #7 - Jul 22^nd, 2004 at 12:11pm NEVER go for a flexible pole. As Mithras says, lost energy. The stone would probably go about three feet.
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funditor Descens Offline Ceteram censeo, rem funditam esse Posts: 173 Vienna, Austria Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #8 - Jul 26^th, 2004 at 7:00am I think in history staff slings were used to cast hevier objects, also also in fights against ships highly inflammatory liquids (I remember a pic with some people standing on boats throwing a conainer onto a ship)
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #9 - Jul 29^th, 2004 at 1:05pm Ive made a staff sling before a normal sling. its harder to learn but is much better in my opinion.
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Chris Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1284 USA Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #10 - Jul 31^st, 2004 at 5:16am You might want to look at the staffsling related links and articles in the "Other webpages" and "Slinging Articles" sections respectively. I just noticed that we don't have any articles describing how to make a staffsling. Anyone up to writing up a nice illustrated guide? There's a slinging.org sticker in it for you. Chris
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Hobb Senior Member Offline Posts: 329 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #11 - Aug 4^th, 2004 at 2:42pm Not at all historically accurate, but the thing works likes a charm!
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Gun Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Slinging Viking Posts: 1089 The Ozarks of Ark & Mo Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #12 - Aug 4^th, 2004 at 3:31pm How much weight can the staff sling throw? Over 1lb?
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Hobb Senior Member Offline Posts: 329 Denver, CO Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #13 - Aug 4^th, 2004 at 4:16pm The one I made, easy. I estimate the rock in the pouch at about 3 pounds, and that's being conservative. I don't see why traditional staff-slings couldn't do the same. Of course, I'm only getting that rock about 30 yards, & it's way heavy.
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Gun Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Slinging Viking Posts: 1089 The Ozarks of Ark & Mo Gender:	Re: sling staff Reply #14 - Aug 4^th, 2004 at 6:18pm Someone needs to put a video of a staff sling on here some day . I have never seen what they can do or how fast they are.
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