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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #15 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:55am ...take this, you evil scoundrel!
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #16 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 7:57am ...one more...
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #17 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 8:04am This sight can be scary. I have seen adversaries back off on reenactment battlefields. In connection with a good crossbow/bowman this is a really dangerous attacking formation. Finally two historical pictures as an evidence for the use of just this kind of formation.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #18 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 8:05am
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hubert Senior Member Offline Posts: 312 Oschersleben Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #19 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 8:08am sehr schön jaegoor!
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #20 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 8:18am Danke Hubert. Ich hoffe doch nicht nur schön sondern auch schön gefährlich.
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Dan Interfector Viris Spurii SlingingGuide Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3974 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #21 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 9:05am I think the reason those guy have shields is is so they can defend themselvs from attacks from above so mabey the combo was used more for siege than open battle? I am not an expert nor an artist that just looks ike what the pictures potray.
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Reply #22 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 1:40pm

Thank you, excellant pictures and explanations on what actually worked and why. Could the slinger have carried any more weapons or would they have been in the way? Could he have worn any armor, such as a leather breast and back? I realize that slingers were used as support, screening and scouting and would have been expected, in most cases, to run around all over the battlefield. Bill

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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2504 Norway Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #23 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 1:52pm Nice pictures. The loading precedure seems to be the logical one timann
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Fundibularius Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Sultan of Sling Posts: 1385 Inter Mosam ac Rhenum Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #24 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 1:58pm Yes, great pictures again, and your technique seems very reasonable to me. Loading without putting the shield aside or down. And I would also retreat if I had that sight of an angry slinger with a shield before me
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Reply #25 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 2:06pm

As always, great stuff, Jaegoor. Thanks. I've never tried to sling with a shield yet I'm sure that I could in that I can sling while both holding an umbrella and controlling two rambunctious Huskies at the same time. It's nothing that I set out to learn to do.. necessity is the mother of all inventions. That would probably make an interesting video.
Again, thanks for another excellent post.

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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #26 - Aug 24^th, 2010 at 3:46pm More weapons are only hardly possible. Nevertheless, they hinder very much the movement. In armament chain shirt or ringlet tank is possible. Good effekt. By the Schield one clearly improves the aim exactness. One does not cover any more so often to the left.
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peacefuljeffrey Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Peace through superior slinging power! Posts: 2700 West Palm Beach Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #27 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 12:08am OH! Would that I had stones around here like those shown in your pictures! Glorious, smooth round stones! Florida really doesn't have them.
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3417	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #28 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 3:18pm What happens to the left, shield-holding, hand, when you sling and release ? For full power, I suppose it moves out of the way while the body rotates (the Jaegoor "aim with right hip" technique)-- and hence the slinger, at the moment of release, is unshielded.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2835 Gender:	Re: Sequence: Slinging with a shild Reply #29 - Aug 25^th, 2010 at 3:43pm No, the Shild always remains before the body. He serves as a help with aim.
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