FloatingFlint, Great sling!!It's a great idea to cover a trap with wool-it gives room for creativity.

The Lamb Sling

Do you folks think something like this might be viable and/or interesting?

This is just the pouch part of a netted sling. You can tie any length or type of rope to either end and have a full sling of desired length. It's durable, waterproof, and can easily be stuffed into a bag or your pocket and converted into a full sling using any random bit of rope.

I couldn't think of an easy or neat way of putting a loop on both ends, so I decided to use the button.

I made 2 new slings. Both are 25".
The left one is a balearic style sling made out of loose hemp fibers. It is very slim and weighs 19 grams. It is the first one I made with 5 strands. In the past I have only used a 3 strand braid on my hemp slings. I want to use it with clay ammo.

The sling on the right is also something new for me: spliced dyneema (3 mm dyneema) with 2 mm polyamide cobra weave on the pouch. It weighs 15 grams and I tried it with tennis balls and it works really well. With splicing I got the release cord tapered for half of its length. I had no splicing tool so I made one out of an inner part of an old pen and it works perfectly.
I made the finger loop first and pulled the whole finger loop through the 3 mm dyneema cord while splicing the pouch. Absolutely no problem. And one tip to get the two sides of the pouch of even length on the first try: do not pull the first splice of the pouch tight. If it is loose, then you see exactly where you have to go through the cord to splice the other end of the pouch. Then, after you have spliced both ends of the pouch, pull them tight.

The idea for trying to make a spliced dyneema sling came from the sling I got from the SITH, because I got a very nice spliced dyneema sling and remembered that I had some dyneema laying around that I had left from making bow strings.

After more than a year a few new netted slings are finished.
All are spoken for and will be sent to their recipient soon.

I have been experimenting with the button pouch idea.
You can put any cords, of any length, and replace them in seconds.
Provided the loop is tight around the button as you pull them on, they will not fall off during use.

Yeah...

I have to schedule braiding sessions around work and household chores.
Takes a few days of occasional braiding to get from the loop to the pouch.
The long distance slings take quite a while.

Part of the motivation for developing the standalone pouch design.

joe_meadmaker wrote on Feb 20^th, 2026 at 11:12pm:

It works great. I really like it. The only thing is that I would like to have more grip on the release cord. I have to pinch it really hard compared to other slings. I tried some variations of gripping it (inspired by all the "balearic grip" pictures that SnowSerge posted), but I am not fully satisfied yet. Maybe I tapered the end of the release cord a little too much and it is just too thin. Other than that it is a nice and functional sling.

+1000 to the acro tab. As you know from my SITH sling, it's the only release mechanism I use

TONS of grip and you can sew it on any cordage of any size - I've attached them securely to thin 2mm dyneema up to wide braided designs that are 1.5cm+

And it's generally non-destructive so if you don't like it or need to adjust it you can cut the thread holding it in place without damaging the sling at all.

I've got multiple slings using an acro tab with 10,000+ throws that show no signs of giving up the ghost anytime soon.