Just be mindful where you’re slinging. This thing lobs egg-sized rocks 100 meters easily and 200 - 300 meters with practice. Impact from one is painful at best - deadly at worst.
Also, in case you have a dog; this can throw balls as well.
Just be mindful where you’re slinging. This thing lobs egg-sized rocks 100 meters easily and 200 - 300 meters with practice. Impact from one is painful at best - deadly at worst.
Also, in case you have a dog; this can throw balls as well.
Many sling techniques, such as the “figure 8,” don’t really need a windup. It looks almost the same as throwing a stone by hand, just with many times the range.
They’re not very accurate though. Even with decades of practice, landing a headshot from 100 meters would take a lot of luck. My understanding is that in ancient warfare, slings were used in volleys by hundreds of slingers against crowds of people.
They served nearly the same purpose as most other ranged weapons: depletion of personnel, yep.
More a target spectrum than specificity, really. Deterring livestock predators got more challenging when they started armoring and religifying them. Wolves, you can hit just about anywhere with a slung stone or three and they’ll fuck right off. Bootlickers, conscripts, brotherhoods, etc.? Less so.