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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Sequence: Slinging with a shild Aug 24^th, 2010 at 6:50am Some time ago, I promised you a picture series on the subject "slinging with a shield". This is it.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #1 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 6:58am http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/I/170863a On Trajan's Column in Rome there is a depiction of a slinger with a shield. We wanted to try how it works. The column shows a slinger who carries his ammunition in a vault of his cloak. Here comes Slinger Jaegoor with cloak and shield.
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Reply #2 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:06am

The cloak is a Norman square cloak.
Very soon a problem turns up.
The cloak and the stones together were so heavy that I could lift up the shield as a protection only for a very short amount of time. Moreover the cloak was extremely cumbersome while shooting and moving, and it had to be held with the shield hand. Our conclusion: Cloaks may look good on a picture or column, in a real combat situation, however, they are completely out of place.

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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #3 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:13am So: put away the cloak and get a good shoulder bag for the stones.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #4 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:14am and Action
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #5 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:15am
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #6 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:16am
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #7 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:16am
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #8 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:22am After the first shot, the next problem becomes obvious. How do you reload your sling without lowering the shield and losing its protection? We discovered two possible solutions.
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Reply #9 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:35am

First: The slinger does not carry the ammunition, but another person, a carrier, hands it to him. This possibility only makes sense in a closed formation, in the protection of a shield wall for example.

The second possibility: The slinger carries the ammunition in a bag. If he wears the bag on the side of his shooting hand, the reloading process turns out to be rather easy. After a short time of practising, it was no problem for us to do so.

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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #10 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:39am After the shot, the sling is pulled back over the upper edge of the shield, just until you can fix the pouch with your thumb. The image shows you how to.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #11 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:41am The shield always remains in front of your body as your protection.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #12 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:46am While you are fixing the pouch with your thumb behind the shield (front), your shooting hand takes out another stone/projectile out of your ammunition bag (backwards).
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #13 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:50am You put this stone into the pouch and secure it.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #14 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:53am Now you just pull back your release cord, and your sling is ready to shoot again.
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