Ian_Robertson
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I started slinging back in the mid-60s, with the encouragement of my dad. He used a sling when he was a kid, and amused my brother and I greatly with the story of how he nearly killed his uncle with a sling stone, just as he was walking out of a barn door.
My mother made my first sling, following dad's directions, out of a strip of cloth about 2 inches wide. She simply folded over both lateral edges of the two ends (i.e., angling inward, away from what became the pouch area) and hemmed them on her sewing machine. Simple, but worked really well. I found that old cloth sling this summer when I went back to visit my mom.
My brother and I became very effective with various kinds of slings and practiced all the time. I fondly recall the time when a group of tough older kids started pelting us with rocks, thinking we were out of their range. They wound up running for it...
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