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ScantPalaver

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Hello from WA state/PNW!
Jun 22^nd, 2024 at 9:32pm

Hey all!

Got into slinging after watching some of AA's videos in February-ish. I'm at the point where I can throw for distance, so now I'm working on accuracy. Been perusing posts for a while, but after I tore a chunk out of my release cord with a sharp rock and a bad throw, I figured I should start thinking about making my own slings. So I joined to start bugging people with questions they've prob'ly answered a hundred times already. 😁😆

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Reply #1 - Jun 22^nd, 2024 at 10:59pm

Welcome aboard! Archaic Arms' videos really are superb and I can only imagine they have drawn many to the hobby. Release cords are sometimes really fragile, yeah - I have a nice long Balearic sling I braided and I've had to replace the tassel on it twice. The second time as a result of the release cord snagging on some barbed wire and ripping out a strand right where I spliced in some polypropylene baling twine. Never pleasant to have to redo, but that's just how hobbies go - If you can't stick with it in the lows, it's not the right hobby.

However, making slings is really fun. I can't quite put into words how it feels hearing a newly finished Balearic sling crack like a whip for its first time - there's just something so fascinating about it, knowing you braided something that can break the sound barrier.

For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.”

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xud9a - call me zud 👍 Funditor Offline Ringing Slocks ! Posts: 876 Nottinghamshire, England Gender:	Re: Hello from WA state/PNW! Reply #2 - Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 1:33pm Welcomly mucho from Sherwood Forest in England. Timecheck ..... it's Thursday ! 😁👍
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13948 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Hello from WA state/PNW! Reply #3 - Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 1:43pm Welcome aboard from New Jersey!!
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3343 PA, USA	Re: Hello from WA state/PNW! Reply #4 - Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 8:05pm Welcome from Pennsylvania!
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ScantPalaver Descens Offline Have fun! Posts: 139 Olympia Gender:	Re: Hello from WA state/PNW! Reply #5 - Jun 23^rd, 2024 at 11:22pm Thank you everyone! I see some names I recognize, and a lot more I don't. Looking forward to getting to know everyone!
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