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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Started focusing on accuracy in my slinging. Reply #15 - Dec 21^st, 2009 at 8:28pm Quote: (I consider being that accurate as a big milestone/achievement. ) Most definitely - well done Quote: Grin lol! well, you're half right. Wink So just the letter opener ears then (that is such a great image)
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Donnerschlag Interfector Viris Spurii Offline I put the 'K' in "Kwality" Posts: 1045 USA Gender:	Re: Started focusing on accuracy in my slinging. Reply #16 - Dec 21^st, 2009 at 8:54pm Curious Aardvark wrote on Dec 21^st, 2009 at 8:28pm: Quote: Grin lol! well, you're half right. Wink So just the letter opener ears then (that is such a great image) I guess this means that we should be keeping an eye out for a "Trade for Rabbit-Ear Letter-Openers" thread in the Trading Post, eh?
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Reply #18 - Dec 22^nd, 2009 at 3:13pm

Buster and I is out and running almost each morning before work, and we pass an building with a parking sign on the wall, maybe 45 x 45 centimeters. Since late this summer I usually stop and do a little accuracy practice by slinging a tennis ball and aiming at the inside of the P`s "loop".
Sometimes I sling from 10 or 30 meters(max it this site), but usually 20 meters (paced by myself). Admittedly there are still most misses, and I am notorious with those "flyers", but I definitively improve, hit the sign now and then, or when not at least close to it, and have great fun too. Right now figure8 is my most accurate style, even more so than my old standard Apache-approximate style.
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Reply #19 - Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 2:11am

Anyone ever have an awesome day where you hit the same spot 2-3 times in a row, and then maybe not hit it in a row but hit the same spot every few tries? It doesn't matter how close/far-- that's amazing at any distance

I used to have those days/times every once in a while, when I started Tongue

. Maybe it comes from the purity of not having as much expectation (emptier mind = zen = amazing results)

Now, I'm better at father distances but worse at close (I was simply awesome from across the room

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Reply #20 - Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 2:58am

Rat Man wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2009 at 2:47pm:

Some say that accuracy is more important than power. To me they're equal. One seems useless without the other.

a weak throw that hits can still kill, or at least wound, whereas a powerful shot that misses does absolutely nothing. both together is the ultimate goal, but accuracy definitely comes first.

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Reply #21 - Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 10:12am

Also power is very easy, accuracy is very hard, at least in my experience, I am pretty accurate throwing a stone by hand, with a sling it is quite a different story.....While I could sling a stone with waaay more power than handthrown from day 1, I am still a long way of matching hand thrown accuracy (if that day ever comes...).

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Reply #22 - Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 11:01am

"Anyone ever have an awesome day where you hit the same spot 2-3 times in a row..."

I have just begun to get there. I'm also now finding the ammo from missed shots laying very close together. Sometimes they look like a nest of stones!

The fig 8 and helicopter are he two main styles I'm working on. For me, it's all about accuracy.

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Reply #23 - Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 2:37pm

My best shot would be hitting a 2 inch wide property line stake at 25 to 30 yds. It was the first cast of the day. Those always seem to be the best. For me it seems like a full hour of practice today, improves my accuracy more the next day. I think that sometimes when I practice for a long period of time I start to tense up and over think. Then the next day it all comes back more naturally.

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Reply #24 - Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 3:43pm

walter wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 11:01am:

"Anyone ever have an awesome day where you hit the same spot 2-3 times in a row..."

I have just begun to get there. I'm also now finding the ammo from missed shots laying very close together. Sometimes they look like a nest of stones!

The fig 8 and helicopter are he two main styles I'm working on. For me, it's all about accuracy.

Walter

Yep, often hit the same spot several times in a row. Unfortunately that spot is often not on the target. Seem to have a problem with always shooting to the right. Then I'll over correct and miss to the left. Only sometimes does everything come magically together and the plastic oil can goes boom when the tennis ball connects.

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Reply #26 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 2:09am

Rockman wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 10:52pm:

Developing muscle memory takes a while. Once you got it, accuracy will improve dramatically. Using the same shape and size of ammo also does wonders.

Repetition is the key to technique.
Muscles and mind usually commit a movement into memory after 10 movements. It isn't usually an effective movement until about 100 repetitions. It isn't a refined movement until after about 2000 repetitions. It isn't a seemingly instinctual movement until about 5000 repetitions.
(Results from a 2003 study of muscle memory by John Hopkins University)

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Reply #27 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 2:13am

Good point Paleo... then again... the few moments in history when you were more likely to hear a rock heading for your skull must have lasted for an eternity for those on the recieving end Cheesy

From what I can work out most trad. sling hunting societies placed greater emphais on snaring and the like and slinging was used as a way to earn supplementary food en route to seasonal homesites or whilst on campaign, but I guess that'd vary by culture and time period. Always good to get a reminder that you're not reading or hearing the same tales as other ppl, thanks!

Buggered if I'd try to sling up some lunch as long as I can find fishhooks, trace wire and beernuts for bait. I'd starve. But in the meantime all kinds of wildlife would get a kick out of my randomised approach to finding a target, haha.

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Reply #28 - Dec 24^th, 2009 at 2:15am

Sorry forgot to add that I picked my "fixed" range points based on them all having level standing points etc.. I find once one foot is higher or lower than the other it tends to add power if the front foot is lower, accuracy if it is higher. Some kinda logic in there.

I never measure anything I just fling out there on a whim, though of late I've worked a bit on how many shots I can drop into say a 10 x 10m area in say two minutes... surprising amount of stone. Think if I was out there, I'd find someone else to bother.

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Reply #29 - Dec 25^th, 2009 at 4:37pm

Donnerschlag wrote on Dec 24^th, 2009 at 2:09am:

Rockman wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2009 at 10:52pm:

Developing muscle memory takes a while. Once you got it, accuracy will improve dramatically. Using the same shape and size of ammo also does wonders.

Repetition is the key to technique.
Muscles and mind usually commit a movement into memory after 10 movements. It isn't usually an effective movement until about 100 repetitions. It isn't a refined movement until after about 2000 repetitions. It isn't a seemingly instinctual movement until about 5000 repetitions.
(Results from a 2003 study of muscle memory by John Hopkins University)

That´s very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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