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BrianS Descens Offline Does Tux love to Sling?!? Posts: 119 NY, USA Gender:	Bible Battles on the History Channel Dec 21^st, 2005 at 12:10pm Just looked at the TV listings and at 8pm EST on the History Channel is Bible Battles: Exploring biblical world from a military perspective. They might discuss David and Goliath or perhaps other battles with slings invovled. Just a heads up. Brian
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MammotHunter Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Give me a rock, a sling, and give me some room Posts: 1020 virginia, for now Gender:	Re: Bible Battles on the History Channel Reply #1 - Dec 21^st, 2005 at 12:21pm I will defintely have to watch this! There are some really good descriptions of battles in the Bible, too. Rather or not they transpired the way they're written...who knows? But it makes for interesting reading.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3246 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Bible Battles on the History Channel Reply #2 - Dec 21^st, 2005 at 6:05pm There was another one on the History Channel recently on Roman Weapons. It dealt with Masada. All the Masadans had were rocks and slings, and of course, a virtually impregnable fort. It took months for the Romans to be able to come up with something to get up there.
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Reply #3 - Dec 21^st, 2005 at 6:48pm

Yeah I saw that one. Good program. Amazing that the ramp (or a good part of it) the Romans built is still there. I bet it pissed that General off when he got up there and found everyone dead after all that work.

I'd like to visit Masada to see it first-hand. Of course it would be cool to sling a stone off just to see what kind of range ya get, although I bet they wouldn't allow it.

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Reply #4 - Dec 22^nd, 2005 at 7:16am

Pretty good program, although it only brought in slings at the very end.( David)
I like the fact that they talked about the force of the weapons in foot pounds. I would like to know how they arrived at 18 foot pounds of force for David's sling, since there isn't enough info in the Bible to figure it out.
I think a lot of it was guessing. Any opinions?

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Gun Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Slinging Viking Posts: 1089 The Ozarks of Ark & Mo Gender:	Re: Bible Battles on the History Channel Reply #5 - Dec 22^nd, 2005 at 7:58pm I am pretty sure that showed slingers in the begining too. Josphs froces? Wasn't a big part. There were so many bible show on last night that i was flipping back and forth so much.
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ben_banned Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1272 Gender:	Re: Bible Battles on the History Channel Reply #6 - Dec 22^nd, 2005 at 9:29pm yes i saw that when th e rommans built that huge ramp unfortunatley the "proffesional" who was being interviewed obviously didnt know how to use a sling
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