It's amazing when we start to study Ancient & Paleo weapons that our ancestors used in order to survive and defend. The pictures showing the Palestinians quite successfully using slings against their enemies is an example of a modern adoption of the sling. I started a trend many years back when just walking local woods of picking up and carrying either a hiking staff or a local piece of forest detritus. One day I picked up a piece of local wood that had been cut by someone and left this crooked piece. Not too big and it was sort of shaped like a boomerang ( which would not be a good woods weapon IMHO). So I kept this piece of crooked wood and started to shave off the bark and rendered it fairly smooth, with some carved striations to make a handle to grip. Well I have carried this piece of wood for about 6 years now and I had started to use it as a throwing instrument, you know trying to hit something with regularity. All I can say is that I have gotten to be fairly accurate and during local rabbit and squirrel season I have managed to enjoy rabbit and squirrel stew from the fruits of my throwing stick.    There isn't a heck of a lot of written material out there but they are mentioned in some manuals of survival training and there are suggestions in the modern day US & British Army survival manuals written for the Special Forces group in both countries. Don't know how much this will interest people but, I thought to pass on some personal knowledge I gained over the years. I have never hit any wild game with a sling as of yet, but one day it will happen. BTW I love rabbit and squirrel with dark gravy and corn bread or biscuits. I don't think it gets more primitive than a Throwing Stick, how about you? 

http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?action=usersrecentposts;username=BobR Here is the link that BobR alludedto down the way here.

can you post a pic ishii?

Sounds like good stuff! It's amazing what can be fashioned into a great weapon... Or just picked up off the ground! There is very little in nature that isn't lethal, in its own way...

Thank you Ishii.  I will remember you promise (now weres the string that will not rot for 2 months of showers and mud and...  Gotta tie some around my thumb ) and if you dont well... lets just say i have my own throwing stick 

Dang, i just broke my trowing stick!!!

LOL luckily I just found a new one the other day

[quote]Thanks alot C_A, now i want a biscuit....  [/quote]
Ah but do you mean a [i]biscuit[/i] or do you mean a biscuit !
Two very different things :-)

I suppose the original throwing stick might well have been a carved animal bone. Makes you wonder which came first the throwing rock or the throwing stick.