Rat Man
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Welcome, abetwo643; Way to go. I'll bet that thicker cord was hard to weave. Good job. A few weeks ago I made and used a Rockman for the first time in a while and was pleasantly surprised at how much easier and better it worked for me. I posted a thread about it. Today I finished up a TS3 I was making and tried it out this morning. When I first started messing with and modifying Malik Lund's Appu-sling I thought that I'd discovered something great, but, as the tutorial states, it sometimes prematurely dropped it's projectiles. When I found the solution, pulling the pouch strands very tightly when weaving it so that the pouch formed a permanent "U", I thought I'd found what would be my signature sling. Something still was missing.. I was more comfortable with slings with bigger pouches and gradually the TS3 got pushed to my back burner. To make a long story shorter, as with the Rockman, everything was different today. It worked like I always hoped it would. Obviously, something in my style had changed and improved. I used mostly Byzantine style and a few Choctaw (underhand Byzantine) shots. I tried all different sizes and shapes of rock, from acorn to almost fist sized, shot many, many times, and not one projectile was dropped. Also, the smaller stones fired just fine. The TS3 may still end up as my signature sling. Today's was a really good session. I have to go now, but I'll post a picture of the sling and another kind I recently completed, later today.
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