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Their offensive weapons include the sling, which they aim very skillfully at the head. Out of small ropes they weave a sort of net-bag, in which to carry stones with an oblong shape, some formed out of a marble stone, and others of clay, hardened in either the sun or fire. They whirl and shoot those so violently. Should it make an impact upon a more delicate part, like the heart, or the head, the man is flattened on the spot. Then, if envy would make them want to burn a house from a distance, they would stuff the perforated side of it with tow burning with a very ferocious fire, which, with a swift movement became a flame, and sail away to seek shelter in enemy houses." [43] Savage, Cliff (2011). The Sling for Sport and Survival. Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press. pp.60–61. ISBN 978-1-58160-565-5. The course is designed for personnel who will need to give directions to the crane operator who has limited visibility using signals and also understand the Lifting operation. Whereas stones and clay objects thought by many archaeologists to be sling-bullets are common finds in the archaeological record, [3] slings themselves are rare. This is both because a sling's materials are biodegradable and because slings were lower-status weapons, rarely preserved in a wealthy person's grave.

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Cunliffe, Barry (2005). Iron Age Communities in Britain: An Account of England, Scotland and Wales from the Seventh Century BC until the Roman Conquest (4thed.). Routledge. p.136. ISBN 978-0-415-56292-8. The Iliad of Homer, translated by Cowper". Gutenberg.org. 5 August 2005 . Retrieved 12 September 2010.If we were to seek out a ground zero point at which the ITV sit-com gave up the ghost and simply stopped trying, then Slinger’s Day, made between 1986 and 1987, might be as good a place to start as any.

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Traditional slinging is still practiced as it always has been in the Balearic Islands, [ citation needed] and competitions and leagues are common. In the rest of the world, the sling is primarily a hobby weapon, and a growing number of people make and practice with them. In recent years 'slingfests' have been held in Wyoming, USA, in September 2007 and in Staffordshire, England, in June 2008. A classic sling is braided from non-elastic material. The traditional materials are flax, hemp or wool. Slings by Balearic islanders were said to be made from a rush. Flax and hemp resist rotting, but wool is softer and more comfortable. Polyester is often used for modern slings, because it does not rot or stretch and is soft and free of splinters. Now one of the Huns who was fighting before the others was making more trouble for the Romans than all the rest. And some rustic made a good shot and hit him on the right knee with a sling, and he immediately fell headlong from his horse to the ground, which thing heartened the Romans still more. [30] Ammunition [ edit ] Sling-bullets of baked clay and stone found at Ham Hill Iron Age hill fort. Refresher(recommended if the delegate is experienced with the machine. Refresher training will help to iron out any bad habits.): 2 DaysAccording to Guinness World Records, the current record for the greatest distance achieved in hurling an object from a sling is 477.10m (1,565ft 3in), using a 127cm (50in) long sling and a 62g (2.2oz) dart, set by David Engvall at Baldwin Lake, California, on September 13th, 1992. [44] Another Egyptian sling was excavated in El-Lahun in Al Fayyum Egypt in 1914 by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and is now in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology—Petrie dated it to c. 800 BC. It was found alongside an iron spearhead. The remains are broken into three sections. Although fragile, the construction is clear: it is made of bast fibre (almost certainly flax) twine; the cords are braided in a 10-strand elliptical sennit and the cradle seems to have been woven from the same lengths of twine used to form the cords. [8] Ancient representations [ edit ] Piao Shi (飃石, lit. 'whirlwind stone'), also known as Shou Pao (手砲, lit. hand cannon) during the Song period, is the Chinese name for staff sling. It consists of a short cord tied to one end of a five chi bamboo pole, and is usually employed in siege defense alongside larger stone throwers. It is depicted and described in the Ji Xiao Xin Shu (紀效新書).

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A sling has a small cradle or pouch in the middle of two retention cords. A projectile is placed in the pouch. There is a loop on the end of one side of the retention cords. Depending on the design of the sling, either the middle finger or the wrist is placed through a loop on the end of one cord, and a tab at the end of the other cord is placed between the thumb and forefinger. The sling is swung in an arc, and the tab released at a precise moment. This action releases the projectile to fly to the target. By its double-pendulum kinetics, the sling enables stones (or spears) to be thrown much further than they could be by hand alone. Jane Penrose (10 October 2005). Slings in the Iron Age. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 9781841769325 . Retrieved 30 June 2010. In some cases, the lead would be cast in a simple open mould made by pushing a finger or thumb into sand and pouring molten metal into the hole. However, sling-bullets were more frequently cast in two-part moulds. Such sling-bullets come in a number of shapes including an ellipsoidal form closely resembling an acorn; this could be the origin of the Latin word for a leaden sling-bullet: glandes plumbeae (literally 'leaden acorns') or simply glandes (meaning 'acorns', singular glans). Other uses of textile in ancient Egypt". www.ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 December 2006. At the centre of the sling, a cradle or pouch is constructed. This may be formed by making a wide braid from the same material as the cords or by inserting a piece of a different material such as leather. The cradle is typically diamond shaped (although some take the form of a net), and will fold around the projectile in use. Some cradles have a hole or slit that allows the material to wrap around the projectile slightly, thereby holding it more securely.Julius Caesar writes in De bello Gallico, book 5, about clay shot being heated before slinging, so that it might set fire to thatch. [33] "Whistling" bullets [ edit ]