StaffSlinger
Senior Member
Offline
Slinging Rocks!
Posts: 458
Florida
|
An e-slinger friend of mine turned me on to a free phone app which accurately measures distances. Called U-disc, it's an app for Disc Golfers to record their games, but the bit that slingers will love is the distance measuring tool. Drop a point where you are. Chuck your rock(s). Walk to your rocks, set another point, and it will tell you, plus/minus a foot or less how far you threw the rock.
Used it today to tell me how far it was across this canal that I'd hit my target (the rock at the base of that tree). I marked my throw point, walked down to a bridge, across to the other side of the canal and then up to the tree... 93 ft.
This is one of the few places in my part of Florida where I can chuck rocks. A hundred yards or so behind me a railroad track parallels the canal, and there are plenty of 'ballast' rocks which are the perfect size for slinging... Best of all, this canal nature trail is about a mile from my house.
|