How to use a sling?

[Celtic_Punk]

however swinging it in a circle allows all the slingers in a unit ready themselves so they can all release together. it also helps yourself (if you are an inexperienced that is) prepare to fire, and helps you get used to it.

most slingers weren't amazingly experienced slingers, they might have some experience from hunting, but most were just levies drawn up in times of war.

[cmacq]

Right,

when a kid, I and a couple of friends, used to hunt rabbits with the sling. That was a ways back, before we got our hands on guns, and I don't recall who showed us how use it. So I had to go out to the desert, which isn't that far nowadays, to fire off a few. I was surprised, it came back quickly, I was soon hitting the wide side of a tree in no time. But, Foot is right, you can use just one quick move, still I use three; two quick elongated turns and a quick whip, maybe that’s just how I learn to use it.



CmacQ

[Havok.]

Right,

when a kid, I and a couple of friends, used to hunt rabbits with the sling. That was a ways back, before we got our hands on guns, and I don't recall who showed us how use it. So I had to go out to the desert, which isn't that far nowadays, to fire off a few. I was surprised, it came back quickly, I was soon hitting the wide side of a tree in no time. But, Foot is right, you can use just one quick move, still I use three; two quick elongate turns and a quick whip, maybe that’s just how I learn to use it.



CmacQ

i had a dog when i was a kid

[cmacq]

Right,

dogs, several of them, some proved fragile creatures. There were a number of them, all with the same name, Bo-bow. Rattlesnakes got one, and I never found two, but I'm sure a lion took another. A lot of people here don't realize how many lions there are in the mountains, just two miles from the center of the town I live in. When I go to a local store there are always people putting up these 'have you seen' posters, with the picture of a Fluffy or Fido. I don't have the heart to tell them that most likely a lion took them. This country can be a bit hard on some animals, and of course the unprepared and those not self aware. I think last year about 200 people perished in the desert, not sure what the headcount is up to this year?

Just remembered one dog was killed when a horse kicked him in the head, and another was strangled by a lawn chair during a dust storm. Strangest thing, somehow he got his neck caught between aluminum supports for the legs. I had another dog that was afraid of birds, I think he was killed somehow, but I went out of town for a few weeks, and when I returned my wife told me she had given him to someone. I just figured that was her euphuism for ‘another dog got killed,’ and didn’t ask any questions. I know we had a couple more but can’t remember how they went?


CmacQ

[roman]

Right,

dogs, several of them, some proved fragile creatures. There were a number of them, all with the same name, Bo-bow. Rattlesnakes got one, and I never found two, but I'm sure a lion took another. A lot of people here don't realize how many lions there are in the mountains, just two miles from the center of the town I live in. When I go to a local store there are always people putting up these 'have you seen' posters, with the picture of a Fluffy or Fido. I don't have the heart to tell them that most likely a lion took them. This country can be a bit hard on some animals, and of course the unprepared and those not self aware. I think last year about 200 people perished in the desert, not sure what the headcount is up to this year?

Just remembered one dog was killed when a horse kicked him in the head, and another was strangled by a lawn chair during a dust storm. Strangest thing, somehow he got his neck caught between aluminum supports for the legs. I had another dog that was afraid of birds, I think he was killed somehow, but I went out of town for a few weeks, and when I returned my wife told me she had given him to someone. I just figured that was her euphuism for ‘another dog got killed,’ and didn’t ask any questions. I know we had a couple more but can’t remember how they went?


CmacQ

Rattlesnake, sure.... mountain lion, lawn chair..... a likely story!

How much does your local underground Korean restaurant pay per pound?

[Maeran]

Ye Gods.

All of my pets lived to a ripe old age.

Nothing to contribute on slinging, but I remember the site Foot posted coming up before. It's good.

[Baktrion Agema]

Don't worry I'm now operating safely in a field, and I'm just curious I have no intention of using it in anger.

[Jolt]

I have no intention of using it in anger.

Hehe, that's rather funny since most people kill other people intentionally with guns/blade weapons. It'd be a deplorably laughable situation for someone to be intentionally killed by a sling.

[Havok.]

Right,

dogs, several of them, some proved fragile creatures. There were a number of them, all with the same name, Bo-bow. Rattlesnakes got one, and I never found two, but I'm sure a lion took another. A lot of people here don't realize how many lions there are in the mountains, just two miles from the center of the town I live in. When I go to a local store there are always people putting up these 'have you seen' posters, with the picture of a Fluffy or Fido. I don't have the heart to tell them that most likely a lion took them. This country can be a bit hard on some animals, and of course the unprepared and those not self aware. I think last year about 200 people perished in the desert, not sure what the headcount is up to this year?

Just remembered one dog was killed when a horse kicked him in the head, and another was strangled by a lawn chair during a dust storm. Strangest thing, somehow he got his neck caught between aluminum supports for the legs. I had another dog that was afraid of birds, I think he was killed somehow, but I went out of town for a few weeks, and when I returned my wife told me she had given him to someone. I just figured that was her euphuism for ‘another dog got killed,’ and didn’t ask any questions. I know we had a couple more but can’t remember how they went?


CmacQ

i do like dogs

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lions? rattlesnakes? where do you live CmaqQ??

[cmacq]

lions? rattlesnakes? where do you live CmaqQ??

Five miles west of this...



and about three miles south of these.



lots of lions in those hills.