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Tomas Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2178	Sling designs for skipping rocks Oct 24^th, 2022 at 2:49am I used to have a heavily cupped sling for skipping stones but it's long gone and passed on to a friend. Has anyone come up with a good design for a sling with this purpose in mind? Btw if you haven't tried skipping stones in water go try it asap. I betcha I've had shots between 50-100 skips!
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2616 Australia Gender:	Re: Sling designs for skipping rocks Reply #1 - Oct 24^th, 2022 at 5:52am I haven’t use a dedicated sling but AA was talking about a spine sling with a slight shelf . That sounds promising
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Sling designs for skipping rocks Reply #2 - Oct 24^th, 2022 at 7:13am My disc slings work well for that, and will take a variety of different size flat ammo. Thought I'd sent one to mersa. But I lose track of who has what Joe's definitely got one.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Sling designs for skipping rocks Reply #3 - Oct 24^th, 2022 at 8:01am https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1626443920/49#49 Buncha stuff on the pyramid slings in there:-) Also other disc slings from various people
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Tomas Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2178	Re: Sling designs for skipping rocks Reply #4 - Oct 30^th, 2022 at 8:59am Thanks folks, looks like there's some experiments going to be made!
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TheJackinati Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 314 Australia Gender:	Re: Sling designs for skipping rocks Reply #5 - Nov 1^st, 2022 at 8:18am Yeah... I think 'Tsubute' shaped stones would be optimal for that sort of thing. Turns out the Japanese really loved throwing flattish stones.
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