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Stals Descens Offline Have fun! Posts: 188 Olympia Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8025 - Jul 4^th, 2025 at 6:30pm Switched material, but same tutorial. Took a minute to figure out the process, but it went quick once I did. I like that you can work off the spool of material, rather than cutting it and hoping you have enough to finish.
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3900 PA, USA	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8026 - Jul 4^th, 2025 at 6:50pm That looks fantastic! Excellent job! Do you have a plan for the cords? Braid, or just loop a single strand through?
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Stals Descens Offline Have fun! Posts: 188 Olympia Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8027 - Jul 4^th, 2025 at 7:02pm No clue! This is my first time making the pouch separate from the cords. I'm not entirely sure how to attach them.
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Reply #8028 - Jul 4^th, 2025 at 7:30pm

Just as that straw (or whatever it is) is going through the loops at the end of the pouch, just run your cords through. If it's a single strand, loop it through and tie a knot. Or if you want a braid, you can pass multiple cords through and start the braid.

Admittedly there could certainly be a fancier method, but that's outside my knowledge. Grin

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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2667 Australia Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8029 - Jul 11^th, 2025 at 6:49am That’s a nice looking pouch. I bet with some experience in the process this technique could make some really interesting designs. I’ll have to look into it.
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Q Descens Offline Kī i ka Māka Posts: 117 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8030 - Jul 12^th, 2025 at 1:32pm Custom request based on one of our native birds, the ʻIʻiwi
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Q Descens Offline Kī i ka Māka Posts: 117 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8031 - Jul 12^th, 2025 at 1:34pm Another custom job done for an acquaintance
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erricrice Senior Member Offline reformed spaghetti enthusiast Posts: 463 Clearwater, FL	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8032 - Jul 12^th, 2025 at 1:34pm Wow, that's beautiful! Nice work.
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Scorpion Vin Descens Offline Still slinging better than archery! Posts: 249 Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8033 - Jul 16^th, 2025 at 11:50am This is the best I have ever done. Very good clean stone projection, good accuracy, and comfortable to use. 32 inch sling
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3437	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8034 - Jul 24^th, 2025 at 12:49pm My slinging bag hanging off a derelict lamp post, at 25 paces. I hit it with my third shot. Then I missed it for the best part of an hour. Just as well: my binoculars were in there.
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Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging
Reply #8035 - Jul 24^th, 2025 at 12:55pm

10 shots per sling at a graffiti (couch-sized, at 27 paces). My best results were with a very long sling (tip of finger to opposite shoulder) with big stones, and smallish stones with very light sling. (Not great results— about 3 hits out of 10). The other slings were too chunky and dragged to the left. Style: helicopter with three rotations.

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erricrice Senior Member Offline reformed spaghetti enthusiast Posts: 463 Clearwater, FL	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8036 - Jul 25^th, 2025 at 8:45pm A new sling with some of IronGoober's mystical blue polysteel. This stuff is stiff! Had to prop it with some heavy salt shakers to get it to behave for the photo Very excited to break this in and see how it does. Light too, only 26g!
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IronGoober Interfector Viris Spurii Offline ...and now, No. 1, the larch... Posts: 1974 California Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8037 - Jul 25^th, 2025 at 11:30pm That was fast! Nice! It looks good.!
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leadrocks Senior Member Offline stay simple. serve god. live free. Posts: 347 Yukon, OK Gender:	Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging Reply #8038 - Jul 26^th, 2025 at 12:05am I'm back. Been a while since I've been around here much. Stopped in and lurked now and then. Made a couple new slings. 2 hemp balearics one is 22" the other (I literally just finished) is 16". Folded length. Stones are a mix of sand topping mix and bonding agent. Good to see you all.
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Re: Pictures of Slings and Slinging
Reply #8039 - Aug 2^nd, 2025 at 11:46am

erricrice wrote on Jul 25^th, 2025 at 8:45pm:

A new sling with some of IronGoober's mystical blue polysteel. This stuff is stiff! Had to prop it with some heavy salt shakers to get it to behave for the photo

Very excited to break this in and see how it does. Light too, only 26g!

I made it a big brother today, it's quite a chonk at 66g! I wanted to make myself a medicine ball sling Grin

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