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jeremy cockrill Guest	ancient non-military uses for the sling Jan 22^nd, 2005 at 2:59pm I'm looking for any ancient Near eastern culture non-military uses for the sling.
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2335 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #1 - Jan 25^th, 2005 at 8:46am People in tibet used it. What exactly are you looking for?
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RockChucker Junior Member Offline Posts: 93 Montreal MO. Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #2 - Jan 25^th, 2005 at 1:13pm what about the sheperds useing them to protect the flock
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english Ex Member	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #3 - Mar 12^th, 2005 at 9:15am People all over the world used the sling in that capacity, in Tibet, Peru/Ecuador/Bolivia, ancient near east, and so on.
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Lionheart Descens Offline Sling when you're winning Posts: 229 Near Manchester, England Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #4 - Jun 2^nd, 2005 at 7:36am SOme sheepherds also used the sling instead of a sheep dog, theyd simply drop a stone close too the animasl to round them up Mustve tkaen a lot of skill though Rik
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #5 - Jun 2^nd, 2005 at 11:55am i would of used the sling and the sheep dog personaly.
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Lionheart Descens Offline Sling when you're winning Posts: 229 Near Manchester, England Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #6 - Jun 2^nd, 2005 at 3:02pm Togetehr youd be nearly unbeateable i nany fights a sheepherd could get in" Rik
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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: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #7 - Jun 2^nd, 2005 at 3:12pm I guess they also hunted with the sling, may be just smal animals but may be even bigger game. Willeke
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Dale Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1581 California, USA Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #8 - Jun 2^nd, 2005 at 10:46pm Check out L.W. Forsyth's article . The Mescalero Apache gentleman he learned the sling from, told Forsyth that his people used slings for hunting game as well as warfare. They'd take down deer with a sling.
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sensingpresence Novicius Offline Posts: 8 philadelphia pennsylvania Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #9 - Jun 6^th, 2005 at 9:35am wow-that forsyth story rocks-very helpful-Arwen
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Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling
Reply #10 - Jun 24^th, 2005 at 8:01am

Here in Spain a few old shepards still using the sling to drive the flock, specially at the mountains where it's hard to climb up and down to get close to the sheeps, they use it along with dogs. fiveteen years ago i met 2 shepards at Sierranevada range (over10.000' height)
They were driving a flock of 3.000 sheeps with 5 dogs and their slings.
Shepards here also do some stealth hunting while going with the flock, but they use their sheep stick/cane as a rabitt stick for getting some rabbits hares partridges etc.

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Reply #11 - Jun 26^th, 2005 at 1:54pm

Can you imagine how good one of those guys would be with a sling....makes me drool just thinkin about it. In the Bible didnt David mention protecting his flock from a lion or bear with a sling? Maybe even killed them with it I'd have to look it up. I suppose if you've been using a sling day in and day out since the time you were just a small kid your accuracy would be so good and your arm so strong you might kill a bear or lion with a sling. Though if you didnt kill them on the first shot you better be a fast runner.

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me Senior Member Offline I sling therefore I am. Posts: 373 Rowlett, TX, USA Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #12 - Jun 26^th, 2005 at 2:13pm By the way does anyone here use the slinging technique described by L.W. Forsyth in the Apache sling article? I tried it the other night and nearly tore a muscle. If anyone has any advice on it, I'd appreciate it.
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Zorrro Funditor Offline Yeah, i guess most of us love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 530 Granada (Spain) Gender:	Re: ancient non-military uses for the sling Reply #13 - Jun 29^th, 2005 at 1:47pm Quote: Can you imagine how good one of those guys would be with a sling.... While i was talking with this two shepards about accuracy with the sling 2 mountaineers came in sight more than a hundred yards away, one of the shepards said he was able to shot down one of them with the 1st stone....
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Reply #14 - Jun 29^th, 2005 at 1:59pm

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...In the Bible didnt David mention protecting his flock from a lion or bear with a sling? ... I suppose if you've been using a sling day in and day out since the time you were just a small kid your accuracy would be so good and your arm so strong you might kill a bear or lion with a sling. Though if you didnt kill them on the first shot you better be a fast runner.

Here there are only a few animals to protect the flock from... some feral dogs and may be some fox... no wolves here...,
usually the shepard dogs fight back any other dogs or foxen, shepards also should use their slings to scary away dangerous animals, also their shepard canes if the animal is close enough.
Their slings had tapered fluffy release cord ends wich make a loud crack! sound like a whip does... animals know what this sound means... (a slinged stone on the way.... Grin

) so they better run away before any stone can reach them.

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