Love this guy. Wonderful how many uses he gets out of that thing. So well made.

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That said, we're gonna need more rope, Wilson. We're going to have to make a hell of a lot of rope.

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Would be interesting to hear if he thinks that using the sling could get as natural as throwing with one's own arm, given enough practice.

I'm getting visions of "Groundhog Day" in my head -- "6 months, 4-5 hours a day, and you'd be an expert."

You'd think with all the time he spends outside, he'd lose the farmer's tan

Does it still work if you wear a shirt?

He should've used handgrenades instead of rocks. Much more fun.

10 thousand hours of training

I bet an Atl-atl would be more accurate, given the same amount of time practicing.

I have limited experience with slinging, but IMHO it's already very much the same as just throwing a stone out of your hand in terms of aim and how it feels.

You basically just release the knot at the point of the swing where you would anyway. Feels very natural.

There's also very little gain in swinging it more than one revolution above your head, almost all the power comes from the flick at the last moment.

I found getting a good power stroke (ooh er Mrs etc.) was the harder part.

A good afternoon of farting about and you could probably kill someone fairly proficiently with one though.

Someone with a lifetime of practice would be terrifying, at least as much as a good archer I would imagine.

I'm thinking that if one were stranded in such a forest, your time and energy might be better spent in hiking out, or maybe in finding and cultivating edible plants. Given his hit ratio, he'd be going hungry most days.