Welcome from Finland!

Well. On campus I used to sling at the campus pond, until they drained it this semester. I also have gone slinging at the athletic fields when no-one is around to get hit.

Otherwise, I sling at trees in my backyard. I have to be really careful there, though, because it is only a half acre. No windows are broken yet, but ricochets can be pretty hair-raising.

As far as my sling goes, it isn’t anything too fancy. It is made of two pieces of 50 lb parachord attached to a piece of corduroy that I sewed into a simple pouch. My current one is getting holes in it now, since it has been in use for a bit over a year now, so I will need to make a new one. I can take a picture a bit later for you, and hopefully post a picture of the new one when it is completed.

That sling looks like it belongs in the wasteland of a nuclear apocalypse, you probably weren’t going for that but it looks cool. I recommend leather, way more durable than most fabrics. Also, over time the leather conforms to the sort of ammo you’ve been using.

Yeah, I mostly went for this particular design because it was cheap, since I had all the materials on hand, and it was quick to construct. It has served surprisingly well, considering how little effort it took to make. I even took it with me to Europe last summer and slung snowballs in the Alps.

I might try my hand at making a woven paracord sling, but I am not quite certain how much the extra weight on the pouch end would effect the slinging characteristics.

What weight of paracord would you recommend for making a woven sling?

I used 500 on this one. Great for 4oz+ ammo.
The hemp sling is lighter and (I think) better for lighter ammo.

Drakolith wrote on Oct 15^th, 2018 at 9:30am:


have you watched jaegoors videos ??
He slings in a gym all the time.

Use tennis balls or sockballs, hang a target on the wall and have at it.
Actually sockballs are best as they don't richochet as much as tennis balls and fly a little straighter. 

10 gets you 1 you'll get a bunch of people wanting to do it as well.
Start a slinging club.
Found the north american college slinging league, run for president of the college sports council.
Become president of the American national sports council.
Front an advertising campaign advocating slinging for health, become a nationally known personality.
Then run for president of the united states ! (lets face it, these days ANYONE can be elected).
Use the united states nuclear threat against the IOC and declare slinging a true olympic sport - or else !

Invite your old mate CA to join your cabinet as head of the government additive manufacturing technologies department.

And all that, just because you asked someone if you could sling rolled up socks in the gym

The land of opportunity indeed

Oh yes, my sling definitely looks pathetic 

I am not comfortable sending out my address yet at this point. However, rest assured, I will be improving my sling design based on all your suggestions. I may have a little time next week to work on one. I have several different thicknesses of paracord to experiment with, so hopefully we can get some good results. I will post pictures so you can critique them.

I will also have to check out the leather at Hobby Lobby, per Wesley’s suggestion. I have noticed some pretty neat designs for leather pouches here on the forum.