heya! i'm interested in sling myths, legends, fictions, historical tales, ect ect. the only ones i know of are biblical stuff and the british fictional series redwall by brian jacques. if anyone knows of any other litrature to do with slings i'd be interested.  thanks!

If ya have access to JSTOR there are a lot of historical stuff on the slings there, but ya have to dig though some stuff to get to them and be connected from a libabry that is a subscriber to their services.

But I agree with sling badgers start digging through the Project Golith and the General forums for a good chunk of what you are looking for. Or dig up ones that we haven't heard and post them here.

Good Hunting

Marc Adkins


axon50 wrote on Oct 21^st, 2007 at 9:35pm:

axon50 wrote on Oct 21^st, 2007 at 9:35pm:

I mentioned this in another thread, but in case you don't spot it, and haven't already discovered the book yourself, IMHO the all-time description of sling combat in fiction is the duel in This Immortal by Roger Zelazny.

isn't lucifers hammer the jerry pournelle one with the big rock hitting earth ?
Or am I getting it confused with something else.

Certainly don't remember any slings in the pournelle one.

At one point of the story they slung molatov cocktail at monsters.

i recently found a great book with something to do with slings called ancient medieval siege weapons, like i said, it's great.