Fun little distance sling I made for smaller ammo like golf balls and lead glandes. 2mm dyneema cords, a light leather pouch, 41", and only 11g!

Throws pretty great, except man does that leather add some crazy spin! Gotta make sure your release is perfectly aligned, but if it is holy cow does it fly.

Huh, good point! I actually didn't do it intentionally for wind resistance, it's just a habit I have when working with dyneema.

I'm not experienced enough with distance throwing to know if that's what's happening here, but I'll see if I can unflatten it since your logic is sound, especially when dealing with very thin/light cords that are very long. Fortunately dyneema slowly unflattens(somewhat) over time on its own as the waxiness from the color treatment wears off.

Oh yeah that's the backside of the pouch in the photo - I always do fluffy side facing the ammo for better ammo security. And yes, that also gives it immense spin!

The pouch design is based on Larry Bray's record-setting sling, but with a larger slit to work with golf balls since his was only for small rocks and lead. I worked out a cleaner template after making this one. The slit is really messy on this one from all my experimentation.

I like the grain side of the leather too as its more durable and easier to wipe down

There is a little footpath by my house that seems to be all little round, oblong stones. They work great... brought a few back to practice in the yard! Let's hope I don't take out a window.

khermadion wrote on Aug 7^th, 2026 at 4:42pm:

It is counter intuitive, but this is not the case. The forces on both sides are different in a way that the resulting torque will orient it with the broad side towards the wind. This is the most stable orientation. In real life it can flutter and twist because of eddies and resonances and other effects. If it is completely free to rotate it can rotate like a bull roarer. The one thing it will not do is orient itself to least resistance.
I once threw a few styrofoam eggs out of the window to check if they really orient the broad side into the wind. Sadly they did  . Thats why we need the spin on our projectiles because otherwise they would orient their broad side into the wind.
You could make a similar shape like a flat cord out of styrofoam, poke an axis through it (a wooden skewer) and point your hair dryer at the profile. Thats what I did with the styrofoam egg because I couldn´t believe it at first.

The thread went a bit off track, so now back to pictures of slings. I made a sling out of bale twine again but this time I sew a leather pouch in (inspired by Snow Serg). In retrospect I should have made the cobra weave on the finger loop in black ...