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bobthebeast21 Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 16	slinging a shot put May 13^th, 2009 at 10:06pm im one of the school shot putters in my school, and while talking about slinging with a few of my friends, they started to joke about slinging a 12 pound shot. that got me thinking, how heavy is to heavy when it comes to slinging?
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Monster Descens Offline Posts: 234 Calgary, Canada Gender:	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #1 - May 13^th, 2009 at 10:19pm I am sure it would work with a really strong sling and 2 hands. So not much accuracy or distance. I find anything more than a few oz throws my old shoulders and joins out of wack.
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Galvanicfish Senior Member Offline Just not right. Posts: 291 Central Ohio Gender:	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #2 - May 13^th, 2009 at 10:49pm Maybe a staff sling?
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Re: slinging a shot put
Reply #3 - May 13^th, 2009 at 11:43pm

I'm not sure of the exact weight, but when the rock projectile starts to approach the size of my fist (bigger than average, but not huge) it does a number on my shoulder. I'm sure a slinging a shot put would cause a lot of us serious injury.
I was a shot putter for a while back in high school. Great sport! I still remember the proper form. Funny how some things stay with you.

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Re: slinging a shot put
Reply #4 - May 14^th, 2009 at 12:40am

It's been an Olympic sport for years; called Hammer Throwing. The hammer is a 16 lb steel ball on a steel cable and is thrown using a pirouetting spinning style. There's no pouch, the thrower lets fly with ball cable and handle. World record distances are around 80 m. Needless to say hammer throwers are all built like King Kong.

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Re: slinging a shot put
Reply #5 - May 14^th, 2009 at 1:20am

Aussie wrote on May 14^th, 2009 at 12:40am:

It's been an Olympic sport for years; called Hammer Throwing. The hammer is a 16 lb steel ball on a steel cable and is thrown using a pirouetting spinning style. There's no pouch, the thrower lets fly with ball cable and handle. World record distances are around 80 m. Needless to say hammer throwers are all built like King Kong.

Except the ones who can manage only about 5m. ... Wink

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Re: slinging a shot put
Reply #6 - May 14^th, 2009 at 5:29am

Aussie wrote on May 14^th, 2009 at 12:40am:

It's been an Olympic sport for years; called Hammer Throwing. The hammer is a 16 lb steel ball on a steel cable and is thrown using a pirouetting spinning style. There's no pouch, the thrower lets fly with ball cable and handle. World record distances are around 80 m. Needless to say hammer throwers are all built like King Kong.

Or Queen Kong. In some countries during the Cold War days, you sometimes couldn't tell the female hammer throwers from the male. There was a great scene on this in the 80s Top Secret! movie.

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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3229 Akron NY Gender:	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #7 - May 14^th, 2009 at 5:45am Also, they have a similar sport in the Highland games. The most weight I have ever heard of being launched from a sling was from the Balearics, whose limestone balls could weigh up to 1 Greek mina, or about 1.25 pounds. Stick to catapults beyond that
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Et Cetera Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks Into Windows! Posts: 1550 Gender:	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #8 - May 14^th, 2009 at 7:36am What about a trebuchet?
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Mr. Boss Funditor Offline Slinging Depleted Uranium! Posts: 631	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #9 - May 14^th, 2009 at 11:43am Youd prolly need a catapult. Anything over 8 oz with even my long sling only goes about 90 yards, (4-5 oz is perfect ammo for my sling). But 12 pounds? Id be amazed to see somone sling a 12 pound object.
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Mr. Boss Funditor Offline Slinging Depleted Uranium! Posts: 631	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #10 - May 14^th, 2009 at 11:47am Although I did see a sling on timothy potters site meant for slinging cannonballs...
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DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #11 - May 15^th, 2009 at 1:09am Here's a link to a video of my favorite hammer thrower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EODZjWudw4E
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DuckofDeath Junior Member Offline Posts: 84	Re: slinging a shot put Reply #12 - May 15^th, 2009 at 1:21am I believe that highland games weight throwing might be a better model for slinging a shotput: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZswCEaOjHcA
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Re: slinging a shot put
Reply #13 - May 15^th, 2009 at 8:38am

hmm, well you could do it with a modified hammer throwing style and a heavy duty sling.

If you wanted to do it one handed it would have to be underam and using a very short sling, or you'd just blow your elbow.
we're only talking about just over 5kg here. So not massively heavy.
Use a thick wrist strap for retention cord and short thick sling and it's doable.
ON no accout attempt with afinger loop - that could be nasty.

I'm not advocating everyone try - lol - you could end up with a dislocated shoulder.
But it's certainly not beyond the realms of possibility for someone with decent shoulder and arm strength.

Also should be pretty easy with a heavy duty staff sling.
I think I'm correct in saying that lobohunter has slung sledge hammer heads of similiar weight (but then he's 6'6 and a blacksmith

Isn't he currently hiking across another set of mountains somewhere ?
(any recent sasquatch sightings in the states ?)

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Re: slinging a shot put
Reply #14 - Jan 17^th, 2022 at 3:34am

I don’t think it would really be possible for one of that size, but I guess it could be possible for a good slinger to sling one of the little athletics under six year old 1kg Shotput balls, still massive for a sling projectile but I guess it could be done, and quite easily if using a staff sling. Sorry for being 13 years later lol

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