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Toby Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 200 Nürnberg	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #15 - Aug 27^th, 2013 at 2:12pm Imagine Goliath slinging with Davids sling !!! I votet NO! I find restrictions on this ridicioulus!!
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TheSlingin-Injun Descens Offline Rope+Rock+Ingenuity= Firepower Posts: 119 Gender:	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #16 - Jan 6^th, 2014 at 12:33pm Between 10" and 60" then. Otherwise none. Any shorter or long is useless/dangerous, and that range was stretching it a bit.
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squirrelslinger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline peace through superior firepower Posts: 2870 Ky, USA Gender:	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #17 - Jan 6^th, 2014 at 1:55pm I say up it to 80 inches. Actually restrict it from 15" to 55" Anything under 15" is more or less as accurate as hand throwing it
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Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard?
Reply #18 - Jan 8^th, 2014 at 10:24am

I say no restriction. I disagree with the generalization of shorter slings being more accurate than longer ones. Close up shorter ones are probably more accurate, but once past a certain point the short sling's trajectory really start to drop after 10 to 20 meters where a longer sling can sling a flat line drive to and past 50 meters. Hitting an object with a 10 inch sling at a target that's 50 meters is probably as hard as hitting a target with in 10 meters with a 40 inch sling.

Another question to ask is: Would it be alright to switch slings in mid competition for the one more suited for the distance?

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Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard?
Reply #19 - Feb 20^th, 2014 at 12:10pm

[Figured I'd throw some more in for the sake of discussion]

One more thing that would be annoying is the fact that what makes a sling behave like a long/medium/short sling in the first place is the ratio to the individual slinger's dimensions.
At 6'/183cm tall, and with a 31"/79cm arm, what I consider to be a short sling would be more like a medium-length sling to someone at least a full head shorter than me.

If something based on category (Short/medium/long sling, etc.) were to gain traction, it should at least make it's definition based on ratio, not some arbitrary length.

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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 6858	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #20 - Mar 19^th, 2014 at 5:36pm Exactly. Whether in bow making, sling making or whatever it's all proportional.
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DocKnotts Novicius Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 1 Clinton Utah Gender:	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #21 - Dec 7^th, 2014 at 2:00pm How about having sling lenth categories? Have a short, medium znd long category. Have a historical replica category, any material category, and an any weapon category. Categories could be expanded & retracted as. Necessary to fit the needs & interest of the competitors.
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David the Shepherd Descens Offline www.DavidTheShepherd .com Posts: 112 Eureka Springs, Arkansas Gender:	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #22 - Dec 22^nd, 2014 at 10:51pm I think a range of length makes sense.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 12520 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: The Accuracy Commitee: Sling Length Standard? Reply #23 - Jan 14^th, 2015 at 8:17pm I also agree with what Steven wrote.
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Question: Standardize Sling Length? Or not?
No Restrictions 42 (95.5%) Standardize Sling Length 2 (4.5%) Total votes: 44 « Last Modified by: LightSlinger on: Mar 18^th, 2013 at 4:24am »