Slinging.org Forum - Staff sling

smiley Novicius Offline fe fi foe smi Posts: 6 melbourne australia Gender:	Staff sling Sep 29^th, 2007 at 8:02am Hello everyone i have checked the site and the internet and i cant find any information on making a staff sling so if you could show me a tutorial or instructions that would be much appreciated. thanks in advance.
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Re: Staff sling
Reply #1 - Sep 29^th, 2007 at 8:46am

smiley wrote on Sep 29^th, 2007 at 8:02am:

Hello everyone i have checked the site and the internet and i cant find any information on making a staff sling so if you could show me a tutorial or instructions that would be much appreciated. Cry

thanks in advance.

You will get better answers than this, but:
a sling staff is a stick with a sling attached to the end. The anchor end is is either knotted around the shaft and the loop end either a) hooked over a headless nail driven into the end of the shaft or, b)) looped around the shaft.

It is very like a trebuchet, but smaller. My small, futile exteriments with it indicate that it is more an "area denial" weapon than an accurate sling.

Your milage may vary. I expect to be overwhelmed with notes exposing my ignorance.

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OrangeDuck Junior Member Offline Annoying my Mom with Slings since 9/6/07 Posts: 95 San Fransisco Bay Area, U.S.A. Gender:	Re: Staff sling Reply #2 - Sep 29^th, 2007 at 1:15pm Here's a nice little guide I dug up out of the articles section http://www.slinging.org/23.html OrangeDuck
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Re: Staff sling
Reply #3 - Oct 2^nd, 2007 at 11:11pm

Dig deeper they are there in both the articles section as well as the forum and links section of the site.
Now there is definately less information on them than on the regular hand sling but it's there.

I havwe a small three ring binder of Staff-sling stuff from this site and others.

smiley wrote on Sep 29^th, 2007 at 8:02am:

Hello everyone i have checked the site and the internet and i cant find any information on making a staff sling so if you could show me a tutorial or instructions that would be much appreciated. Cry

thanks in advance.

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Re: Staff sling
Reply #4 - Oct 2^nd, 2007 at 11:11pm

Pretty much that is it in a nutshell.

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Trebuchet wrote on Sep 29^th, 2007 at 8:46am:

smiley wrote on Sep 29^th, 2007 at 8:02am:

Hello everyone i have checked the site and the internet and i cant find any information on making a staff sling so if you could show me a tutorial or instructions that would be much appreciated. Cry

thanks in advance.

You will get better answers than this, but:
a sling staff is a stick with a sling attached to the end. The anchor end is is either knotted around the shaft and the loop end either a) hooked over a headless nail driven into the end of the shaft or, b)) looped around the shaft.

It is very like a trebuchet, but smaller. My small, futile exteriments with it indicate that it is more an "area denial" weapon than an accurate sling.

Your milage may vary. I expect to be overwhelmed with notes exposing my ignorance.

Trebuchet

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