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Aug 21^st, 2011 at 4:27pm

I don´t know if this already exist "here" but I got this idea today. It a bit softer then a stone, but not so much. It´s a homemade jiggling ball filled with small stones. I use beaver-nylon as fabrik, wich is strong and stand water and dirt quite well.

I found an explanation in internet. It´s in swedish but one need the template to start with:

http://www.slojd.se/pdf/beskrivning/jongler.PDF

The final result of this project today was a ball at the size of a golfball and slighty heavier.

Some pictures follow here......

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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: ammoball Reply #1 - Aug 21^st, 2011 at 4:28pm cut out 4 pieces from the fabric.
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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: ammoball Reply #2 - Aug 21^st, 2011 at 4:29pm sew them together two and two.
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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: ammoball Reply #3 - Aug 21^st, 2011 at 4:30pm and then two two halfs together. Leave an opening for turning the ball inside out and to fill stones/sand into...
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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: ammoball Reply #4 - Aug 21^st, 2011 at 4:32pm and here is the final result. It´s little bit too small for my taste, so next time I do a bigger ball.
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: ammoball Reply #5 - Aug 21^st, 2011 at 10:14pm How many times can you sling something like that before it breaks??
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Ulrica Funditor Offline Fly, stone, fly Posts: 639 In the middle of Sweden Gender:	Re: ammoball Reply #6 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 12:15am I´ll find out. - But it´s a rather sturdy fabrik.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: ammoball Reply #7 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 12:51am That's a great idea Ulrica. If made with sand I wonder if it could be used indoors?
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Reply #8 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 2:45am

in a big hall, you mean? Not in the livingroom? Wink

Yeah. i think that could be possible. One probably could mix the sand up with cottonwool or some plastic filling to regulate the weight. - It mustn´t be too light though.. or you pad the inside of the ball with cotton?

Yesterday evening, when I got to bed I come up with a totally crazy idea:

if you glue velcro on the ball(s) and put up a big fabric between approx two trees with a kind of huge dartcircles on ( think bow-shooting) on it. The Fabric should be one, that the velcro stick on it.
Then sling the ball(s) and they will - hopefully- stick on the fabric and give points...

That game could also be played in a big hall, on a backyard or everywhere in the woods..

What´s about it?

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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: ammoball Reply #9 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 3:07am So almost like a game of darts but with slings instead? That sounds like a lot of fun actually. I would definitely play that if I could find someone to play with. As far as the indoors idea I was kind of thinking more like in a garage. But a long hall should work as well.
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Reply #10 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 3:12am

When you wrote garage, our garage come up in my mind; low roof, not even 2 meters high, alot ! of things everywhere where you hardly can walk across Wink

Yeah, a bigger garage ( then ours) and maybe if you have a short sling. If you just want to practice the "swing", tie the stone hard to the pouch, so it´s NOT flying away and then practice the swing......

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Reply #11 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 3:25am

Ulrica the balls looks great! They are semi-safe ammo, good to play in a backyard with. I think that a bit bigger ones wold work better, especially with your big pouches. They remind me Jaegoor's idea - balloons filled with sand.

I like your idea of velcro ammo - an another interesting way to play with sling safely. I think the Peruvian sling will not work well with velcro ammo

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Reply #12 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 5:10am

Yurek wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 3:25am:

Ulrica the balls looks great! They are semi-safe ammo, good to play in a backyard with. I think that a bit bigger ones wold work better, especially with your big pouches. They remind me Jaegoor's idea - balloons filled with sand.

I like your idea of velcro ammo - an another interesting way to play with sling safely. I think the Peruvian sling will not work well with velcro ammo

Laugh out LOUD! *tears in my eyes* No, i guess that sling will be too attatched to those balls. Grin

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Reply #14 - Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 9:18am

Curious Aardvark wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2011 at 7:15am:

good to see you back on the forum Smiley

great ammo idea too.

i've used ping pong balls with strips of velcro on to sling at velcro targets. eventually lost all the balls.
still in my workshop somewhere - but finding them makes needle in a haystick look like an easy option

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Thank you so much!
It´s nice to be so warmth welcomed!

He he sounds like you have a lot lying around in your workshop.

What do you think of my velcro idea? Could it work? Or do you need a harder target than that fabric?

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