For me, the reason my targets are low to the ground is because I don't have anywhere to hang them up higher I would love to have a proper target range with varying heights.

it's just a  competition standard.

The target most likely developed as a training tarhet.
The diana is head height for most people and our ancestors were shorter on average.
The total width of the target is about 2 people wide.

A good sized target for a body of men charging you.

And as the only organised slinging competitions in the world use this target. It's what most of us train on.

I actually spent most of my slinging life throwing stones for moving dogs and landing them fairly close to the dog, otherwise they'd give up and come back for another rock.

So I'm pretty good at moving and random targets.

It's just down to what you practice with.

I do find it MUCH easier to hit a random snap target, as reflexes take over. With a standardised target at a set distance - I usually start out without thiking about it and never miss in practice.

But the longer you sling at the stationary target the more you start to think about what you are doing - and that's usually when things go tits-up and I start missing.

For field slinging (roving and hunting) you need to constantly pick targets at different distances, heights and even take shots at targets partially concealed by weeds etc. Anything that might trip you up mentally in the moment. The more you practice the easier all shots get.

The side benefit is if you can actually hunt small game with a sling you probably have pretty darn good accuracy so it doubles as a good target slinging practice.

Shakli wrote on Nov 19^th, 2020 at 12:54am:

Yeah, this is my problem. I don't want to have to adjust. I took 5 shots at a sleeping bat a couple of months ago and missed them all. I'm blaming it on the target practice. So now I have three different target heights.

Morphy wrote on Nov 17^th, 2020 at 10:52pm:

This is pretty much my whole history with slinging until recently. Country has been in lockdown since March during which I built the backdrop etc,. because there's not much opportunity to go out. But I've gone and made multiple targets now, so it's better than it was.

Kilisi wrote on Nov 19^th, 2020 at 5:27am:


I think you misunderstood what I was saying.  It ONLY took 100 shots to get use to slinging at a different heights.  That was a one time thing.  Since that one practice session there is no difference to me what height the target is, my accuracy is the same.  Only factor for me now is how far is the target.