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Slingshot Bob

Slingshot Bob

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Any one else here use one? They are one of mans oldest and most effective, projectile weapon. I'm no expert but I am well practiced. I can throw a 3 ounce lead egg sinker at 100mph to a max range of 200 yards.

If someone here can be so kind as to calculate the ballistics, I believe 3 ounces at 100mph is about the kinetic equivalent of a small pistol round. Not bad for a piece of string.

I have hit beer bottles, at 100 ft more than once. You can throw darn near anything that fits in the pouch, rocks being most common, lead being the best.

A 2 or 3 ounce wheel weight, makes a sound like George jettson's car.

I can also throw incendiary and explosive rounds. Not gonna spell it out but childrens cap gun caps are handy impact priming material.

I sometimes catch a glimpse of slings in action in foreign riots, I would think that constitutes deadly force and the police could open fire, at that point.th.jpg
 
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Slingshot Bob said:
Any one else here use one? They are one of mans oldest and most effective, projectile weapon. I'm no expert but I am well practiced. I can throw a 3 ounce lead egg sinker at 100mph to a max range of 200 yards.

If someone here can be so kind as to calculate the ballistics, I believe 3 ounces at 100mph is about the kinetic equivalent of a small pistol round. Not bad for a piece of string.

I have hit beer bottles, at 100 ft more than once. You can throw darn near anything that fits in the pouch, rocks being most common, lead being the best.

A 2 or 3 ounce wheel weight, makes a sound like George jettson's car.

I can also throw incendiary and explosive rounds. Not gonna spell it out but childrens cap gun caps are handy impact priming material.

I sometimes catch a glimpse of slings in action in foreign riots, I would think that constitutes deadly force and the police could open fire, at that point.[ATTACH=CONFIG]67217212[/ATTACH]
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At the individual, I hope, not the entire crowd.

:shoot
 
Fritz said:
At the individual, I hope, not the entire crowd.

:shoot
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Hard to say, a sling can be deployed in a second and you would not know who the slinger was if you did not, directly see, not every one does that helicopter thing with muliptle rotations, I only do a 3/4 rotation.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
Hard to say, a sling can be deployed in a second and you would not know who the slinger was if you did not, directly see, not every one does that helicopter thing with muliptle rotations, I only do a 3/4 rotation.
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I think the police can justify a mass arrest though, not lethal force just because of one murderous slinger. However, it may be difficult to make the right charges on the right person. I would think the police should be equipped with adequate protection from some ballistic impact.
 
Fritz said:
I think the police can justify a mass arrest though, not lethal force just because of one murderous slinger. However, it may be difficult to make the right charges on the right person. I would think the police should be equipped with adequate protection from some ballistic impact.
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Agreed, even with armor, getting hit would hurt. When the conquistadores conquered south America, that laughed at the natives flint tipped arrows, due to their steel body armor, but they feared the sling, which kills by concussion.

Having said that, obviously, bodt armor has come a long way since.
 
Slingshot Bob said:
If someone here can be so kind as to calculate the ballistics, I believe 3 ounces at 100mph is about the kinetic equivalent of a small pistol round. Not bad for a piece of string.
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3 oz at 100 mph is ~85 Newtons of kinetic energy.

A 9mm round weighing 115 grains at 1200 ft/s is ~500 N of kinetic energy.

A .22lr round weighing 40 grains at 1255 ft/s is ~190 N of kinetic energy. So even a quite small round is more than double the energy of your sling.
 
molten_dragon said:
3 oz at 100 mph is ~85 Newtons of kinetic energy.

A 9mm round weighing 115 grains at 1200 ft/s is ~500 N of kinetic energy.

A .22lr round weighing 40 grains at 1255 ft/s is ~190 N of kinetic energy. So even a quite small round is more than double the energy of your sling.
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Thanks for that, still would sting!
 
molten_dragon said:
3 oz at 100 mph is ~85 Newtons of kinetic energy.

A 9mm round weighing 115 grains at 1200 ft/s is ~500 N of kinetic energy.

A .22lr round weighing 40 grains at 1255 ft/s is ~190 N of kinetic energy. So even a quite small round is more than double the energy of your sling.
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I am not familiar with newtons, but foot pounds. Not sure how it works but I think 20 ft lbs means, the amount of energy needed to move 20 lbs, one foot, or the energy of one pound falling 20 ft, or 20 pounds falling one ft.

It gets quite confusing.
 
as a kid and a young adult, I used to play around with ancient projectile weapons. Slings, spear throwers, bows and crossbows. Ultimately I became a nationally ranked archer. I also spent a lot of time shooting the more common rubber band slingshots which are far more accurate and easy to use than the old time military sling. Some Roman slings were nothing more than a piece of string-the projectiles looked like some fishing sinkers with a hole through them. the advantage of that style was that the sling-with the projectile on it, could be used as a vicious close quarters weapon, sort of like a flail or a morning star. the disadvantage was it took more time to create the projectiles. Roman slingers were deployed similar to archers-in masses where they could rain projectiles on the opposition.
 
TurtleDude said:
as a kid and a young adult, I used to play around with ancient projectile weapons. Slings, spear throwers, bows and crossbows. Ultimately I became a nationally ranked archer. I also spent a lot of time shooting the more common rubber band slingshots which are far more accurate and easy to use than the old time military sling. Some Roman slings were nothing more than a piece of string-the projectiles looked like some fishing sinkers with a hole through them. the advantage of that style was that the sling-with the projectile on it, could be used as a vicious close quarters weapon, sort of like a flail or a morning star. the disadvantage was it took more time to create the projectiles. Roman slingers were deployed similar to archers-in masses where they could rain projectiles on the opposition.
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The sling offers the ultimate challenge of pure, instinctive shooting, in the hands of an expert, it is just as accurate as a slingshot, problem is, it takes half a lifetime of practice to obtain expert skills. I have been practicing a few years and I consider myself intermediate. When I call my shot and hit the mark, people say, "that was just luck, do it again" I throw the sling at em and say "you do it once, i'll do it twice" :)
 
Slingshot Bob said:
The sling offers the ultimate challenge of pure, instinctive shooting, in the hands of an expert, it is just as accurate as a slingshot, problem is, it takes half a lifetime of practice to obtain expert skills. I have been practicing a few years and I consider myself intermediate. When I call my shot and hit the mark, people say, "that was just luck, do it again" I throw the sling at em and say "you do it once, i'll do it twice" :)
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I just don't see someone being able to do what say Norm Ekdahl (back in the seventies, the biggest indoor archery shoot in the world had a slingshot tournament and NE was the best there) did with a Saunders slingshot or what former Olympic archery champion Darrell Pace could do with one either (like hit lifesavers at 15 yards over and over and over again). But its cool to train that hard with it
 
TurtleDude said:
I just don't see someone being able to do what say Norm Ekdahl (back in the seventies, the biggest indoor archery shoot in the world had a slingshot tournament and NE was the best there) did with a Saunders slingshot or what former Olympic archery champion Darrell Pace could do with one either (like hit lifesavers at 15 yards over and over and over again). But its cool to train that hard with it
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Probably not but some of the worlds best slingers hail from the baleric islands of spain. I have noticed a crossover effect between the sling and slingshot, as you get better with one, you naturally improve with the other, the sling packs a way bigger wallop.

If I can figure out how to post a video, I will post one of the islanders, there accuracy is incredible. Not sure where in the bible, but it describes very expert slingers
 
There was also a Roman version of the sling that fired a weighted dart with tale veins that could penetrate the armour of those days (a kestrophendane?)
 
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