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Duckhands Descens Offline Making Some Sick New Slings! Posts: 236 Idaho Gender:	Simple question about practice ammo making. Mar 16^th, 2021 at 9:14am What are the best, (in your opinions) air dry materials for making sturdy dense practice ammo? I have heard to use quick dry cement, and looked at some air dry terracotta clay, but am not familiar with either, or other potential ammos, excluding rocks obviously.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 9:38am Concrete was an old favorite of mine. Works excellent and makes extremely accurate ammo. Pretty dense and quite strong when made right. (Crap when made wrong) . Air dry clay is another common one used. Clay for me is a last resort. I like it but its not as dense as I would like.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2814 Gender:	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #2 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 9:58am https://youtu.be/ExE_y1fro6A beton https://youtu.be/duIY6d_iw00 Lehm
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 2925 PA, USA	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #3 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 10:39am You should have posted this one Jaegoor. This is a slightly different route. The tutorial part starts around 2:45. https://youtu.be/5nQQk8meHXE I finally remembered to order a bunch of balloons. So I'll be making a couple dozen rusty balls as soon as they arrive.
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Duckhands Descens Offline Making Some Sick New Slings! Posts: 236 Idaho Gender:	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #4 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 11:10am Oh, very nice. Thanks fellas I might have to try all of the above, as I can afford material. I am thinking about getting some 2.5" silicone ice ball molds, as well as some nfl style football shaped ones for cement, and other materials. I am surely wanting to make some of the rusty balls also
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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #5 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 12:17pm Ice balls are fantastic. Was it me that converted you Joe? I don't remember now but I've converted a fair few people to the way of the ice ball
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 2925 PA, USA	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #6 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 1:54pm Kick wrote on Mar 16^th, 2021 at 12:17pm: Was it me that converted you Joe? Totally. You planted that seed shortly after I joined the forum. I've gone that way and never looked back.
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Kick Forum Moderation Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #7 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 3:27pm Ha! Good! I have a new toy turning up sometime soon that I think should be good for a shotgun sling One of these: https://www.prisma.fi/fi/prisma/plastex-jaapalapullo 17 at a time! Not that big and not full balls but that's why I think it will be good for a shotgun sling.
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 2925 PA, USA	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #8 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 4:04pm Cool! Keep me posted on how it works. I have a couple cheap plastic molds that make small ice balls. Those are the ones I've used in all my shotgun sling videos. They do work well. Just not a lot of distance because the mass of each ball is very low.
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Duckhands Descens Offline Making Some Sick New Slings! Posts: 236 Idaho Gender:	Re: Simple question about practice ammo making. Reply #9 - Mar 16^th, 2021 at 5:02pm Sweet, I might be curious to see said shotgun sling video lol.
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