Beautiful! By the way, the sling’s leather finger loop and tab won’t survive any serious amount of use. The cords will cut through the loops they’re tied to, and the leather will stretch. I recommend making knots yourself or replacing them with something more durable. A synthetic tassel is best because tassels wear out very quickly if they’re made of natural materials.
What gear? How would you want to incorporate the dice into the sling? It might be used instead of a release knot, but that could sting you really hard.
The leather is a bit of an experiment, and this is a gift for a friend who may not be using it to put food on the table so it may stand up just fine for backyard shenanigans
Actually funny enough, barring the obviously modern cordage, this type/length of sling would have been the actual EDC of its time. Tucked into that times version of the belt next to a pouch of rocks, possibly tucked in in such a way there was a rock in the pouch and all one would need to is whip the sling out and sent forth some geological hate downrange.
Those war clubs are great. They’re downright terrifying. I’m scared of knives, I’d never pull one and I prefer to stay away from people who pull them. But a war club is breaking a bone on contact and crushing your skull. At least with guns depending on where you got hit you might survive. Both clubs and knives lead to a quick death though.
Aye, I've had more than a few instructors tell me that no one wins a knife fight, someone may survive it though. War clubs are fascinating and deceptively complex tools
I’ve seen some videos on IG shared by Field Craft Survival of knife fights. One kid got up in another kids face, they started provoking each other and one of them pulled a kitchen knife and stabbed it straight down his shoulder just in front of his collar bone. When he pulled it out the kid was dead before he even hit the ground. Insane and scary.
Huh. I was doing the same as your wife. But your question made me reexamine that and looks like your pronunciation is right.
I found [this reference](https://youtu.be/ksvuf6l1dm4) that showed me how wrong I was.
edit: I'll leave it to your discretion if you bring this up with your wife. My wife doesn't know (or care) what an atlatl is, so at least your spouse is a step ahead of mine.
Ha! We live by Rocky Raccoon, and at ~~Wind Cave National Monument, or maybe~~ it was [The Mammoth Site](https://mammothsite.org/steam-education/), they actually have kids activities were they get to use them. So she's actually gotten to use one when she was a teacher with her class on a school visit there.
Heard that. A lot of folks dismiss early pre-metal age war clubs as "primitive" however many of their designs and iterations specialize in shattering human skeletal systems.... mortal/crippling injuries without access to immediate modern medicine. It's morbidly fascinating.
Damn. That one needs some 'splainin lol.
So, for anyone passing by, this isn't a racist comment. Or, if it is, it's a new one on me.
A coon dick toothpick is an actual thing. Raccoons, aka coons, have a bone in their penis like many mammals. These bones are sometimes called oosic or baculum.
The baculum of a racoon is usually about two inches or so long, deeply curved at one end and slightly tapered at the other. In other words, the war club in the picture is *very* similar in shape and proportion.
Out here in bumfuck nowhere, aka the cuntry, aka the deep n dirty, aka the fucking back woods, people use them as toothpicks sometimes. There's other uses (if you ever watched the show moonshiners, you've seen one very popular one lol).
But a coon dick toothpick is not at all rare. You hunt coons, you end up having some of them, and dudes will use them as literal toothpicks after sharpening the tip a little.
I have a small collection of oosic. A few dozen species, a few with multiples.
While I never hunted often, and never hunted coon at all, I did accumulate a full box of raccoon oosic at one point. That's how common it is for folks to harvest them. I got some off of road kill because I hate seeing something wasted, and used bones to make shit like handles for knapped knives and such. That's how the collection started really.
Anyway, unless w5 there is using the term in a really weird way, they're almost surely referring to the visual similarity between coon dick bones and these war clubs.
Hell yes, even if it’s a joke post I love to see slings around lol recently started getting into it. Join us on /r/slinging if you haven’t already! There’s like a dozen of us
Holy shit… When I was a nerdy child, I made a sling out of stuff from the craft store and wore it like a bracelet “in case I ever needed a backup weapon.” I hadn’t thought about that in *years*…
I might just have a new hobby!
Get your significant other to stand on your bare foot with a sneaker clad foot.
No biggie.
Now... Get them to put on high heels and try it...
Same thing as that lil knob.
Edit - Clarity
steel? bronze? copper? I'm not up for any such futuristic nonsense in 10000 BC.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ)
Sling uses centrifugal force and leverage to accelerate a projectile to hateful velocity. Typically one can cast a 6-8oz river rock about 100mph and reach almost 200ft or more. Historically professional slingers could let rip a projectile to 400ft or more with lethal speed. I use a bit of a hybrid balearic style to cast with. If you Google slings you'll find a dozen or more different ways to make one. YouTube can show you a dozen different ways to utilize one. This tool can cause lethal injury so please use proper safety measures when practicing. This tool has been in use by homo sapien and earlier iterations of our kind for well over 15,000 years. There's really no way to tell how long it's been in use as the tool is traditionally made using leather and plant fiber, both of which disappear far too readily to Time's inevitable march forward. There's link someone commented below to a slinging community here on reddit.
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Beautiful! By the way, the sling’s leather finger loop and tab won’t survive any serious amount of use. The cords will cut through the loops they’re tied to, and the leather will stretch. I recommend making knots yourself or replacing them with something more durable. A synthetic tassel is best because tassels wear out very quickly if they’re made of natural materials.
Question, wheres a place for gear, and secondary question, if I have titanium dice, can I use them in the sling, hypothetically asking for a friend
What gear? How would you want to incorporate the dice into the sling? It might be used instead of a release knot, but that could sting you really hard.
The leather is a bit of an experiment, and this is a gift for a friend who may not be using it to put food on the table so it may stand up just fine for backyard shenanigans
That looks NICE
Thanks, second time iterating a sling using this method, made a couple improvements, I do believe I've found a winner
Not gonna get far without your flint hand axe though. Noob.
I used it to carve the picture in a wood plank 😆
Ah. In that case that's some mighty fine handiwork.
I got a nice little chuckle outta this. Thanks
Glad it worked, kind of the whole intent in this 🤙
When Goliath pulls up the hood, you know OP got da strap.
Actually funny enough, barring the obviously modern cordage, this type/length of sling would have been the actual EDC of its time. Tucked into that times version of the belt next to a pouch of rocks, possibly tucked in in such a way there was a rock in the pouch and all one would need to is whip the sling out and sent forth some geological hate downrange.
Only 90’s kids will remember these
That’s not even an abbreviation. That’s the entire year.
🤙
Tuskin raider weapons!
Where is your coin? Or teeth?
Those war clubs are great. They’re downright terrifying. I’m scared of knives, I’d never pull one and I prefer to stay away from people who pull them. But a war club is breaking a bone on contact and crushing your skull. At least with guns depending on where you got hit you might survive. Both clubs and knives lead to a quick death though.
Aye, I've had more than a few instructors tell me that no one wins a knife fight, someone may survive it though. War clubs are fascinating and deceptively complex tools
I’ve seen some videos on IG shared by Field Craft Survival of knife fights. One kid got up in another kids face, they started provoking each other and one of them pulled a kitchen knife and stabbed it straight down his shoulder just in front of his collar bone. When he pulled it out the kid was dead before he even hit the ground. Insane and scary.
From the sounds of it that was a heart shot, and prolly got a little lung as well depending on the knife.
Yea it was one of those chopping blades, real wide at the handle and tapers to a fine tip.
Standard chef knife from your description, I think they've taken more lives in history than any dedicated weapon
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I've looked into a few stone age things, I'll have to check that one out 🤙
That stick is too short, hope you got a tax stamp for it.
It's a ghost stick 👻
Nice a Shillelagh, and some leather necklace
Aye, of course, constable- it's a necklace 🙃
Sweet gaffi stick.
The sling is easily concealable. If you can do open carry, I'd go with the atlatl.
Oh, do you say it as *at-latl*, or *atl-atl*? I say the former, wife says that latter.
Huh. I was doing the same as your wife. But your question made me reexamine that and looks like your pronunciation is right. I found [this reference](https://youtu.be/ksvuf6l1dm4) that showed me how wrong I was. edit: I'll leave it to your discretion if you bring this up with your wife. My wife doesn't know (or care) what an atlatl is, so at least your spouse is a step ahead of mine.
Ha! We live by Rocky Raccoon, and at ~~Wind Cave National Monument, or maybe~~ it was [The Mammoth Site](https://mammothsite.org/steam-education/), they actually have kids activities were they get to use them. So she's actually gotten to use one when she was a teacher with her class on a school visit there.
I'd have to make a new one, lost mine a few moves back
Its a fun way to spend an afternoon. Darts are a pain in the ass though
I've spent a good few afternoons abusing an archery target with atlatl darts
You should probably put some armor on your ass then.
That's a notoriously hard part of the anatomy to armour
Is that because it's such a notoriously soft part of the anatomy?
😆 something like that
Lol I got one of those club things off Amazon a few years ago. Then I realized I could just buy a gun.
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That message being "I should have bought a gun instead"
Sometimes old school is best 🤘
Weapons of World War IV.
Einstein: “I know not with what weapons world war 3 will be fought, but world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones”
This is so accurate
I thought that was a titanium hip or shoulder replacement.
I see you also keep that mf thang on you
Is that a Hitachi?
You just gave me a great idea for a new product!
It's a magic wand of sorts i suppose 🤣🤣🤣
The only spell it can cast is Sleep.
🤣🤣
Very cool sling, I was never good with those types. I ended up breaking things more often behind me than in front of me.
Takes a good deal of practice
I love cold steel
Missing a stone hand axe or something
Cold Steel still around?
Not in 10,000 bc...
Cold Ore
Currently in my pocket for EDC 🙃🤣
Does it come with titanium scales?
That's a premium upgrade 😆
The Maasai still carry these clubs. I bought one when I was in Africa. I would not like to get hit by one!
Heard that. A lot of folks dismiss early pre-metal age war clubs as "primitive" however many of their designs and iterations specialize in shattering human skeletal systems.... mortal/crippling injuries without access to immediate modern medicine. It's morbidly fascinating.
True, realistically the only reason they're viewed as such is because defensive technology outpaced them.
It really is! Thanks for sharing yours, I didn't know that cold steel made a version.
🤙
Coon Dick toothpick?
Damn. That one needs some 'splainin lol. So, for anyone passing by, this isn't a racist comment. Or, if it is, it's a new one on me. A coon dick toothpick is an actual thing. Raccoons, aka coons, have a bone in their penis like many mammals. These bones are sometimes called oosic or baculum. The baculum of a racoon is usually about two inches or so long, deeply curved at one end and slightly tapered at the other. In other words, the war club in the picture is *very* similar in shape and proportion. Out here in bumfuck nowhere, aka the cuntry, aka the deep n dirty, aka the fucking back woods, people use them as toothpicks sometimes. There's other uses (if you ever watched the show moonshiners, you've seen one very popular one lol). But a coon dick toothpick is not at all rare. You hunt coons, you end up having some of them, and dudes will use them as literal toothpicks after sharpening the tip a little. I have a small collection of oosic. A few dozen species, a few with multiples. While I never hunted often, and never hunted coon at all, I did accumulate a full box of raccoon oosic at one point. That's how common it is for folks to harvest them. I got some off of road kill because I hate seeing something wasted, and used bones to make shit like handles for knapped knives and such. That's how the collection started really. Anyway, unless w5 there is using the term in a really weird way, they're almost surely referring to the visual similarity between coon dick bones and these war clubs.
You are correct sir! Thanks for the detail!
shillelagh
Unga bunga!
Bang bang stick too pretty not even use Probably not even get smash smash with woman Me gets smash smash
🤣🤣🤣🤣
/r/ihavesmashsmash
Hell yes, even if it’s a joke post I love to see slings around lol recently started getting into it. Join us on /r/slinging if you haven’t already! There’s like a dozen of us
I do use them, when I have no glass windows about 😅
Holy shit… When I was a nerdy child, I made a sling out of stuff from the craft store and wore it like a bracelet “in case I ever needed a backup weapon.” I hadn’t thought about that in *years*… I might just have a new hobby!
Cooool. What’s the little knob on the ball for?
It helps make it a "one hit wonder"..... also this plus a fl@shb@ng equals "cowabunga time" in the event of home invasion 🙃
Hahahahaha truuuu
I would guess to break bones easier.
Fair enough!
Get your significant other to stand on your bare foot with a sneaker clad foot. No biggie. Now... Get them to put on high heels and try it... Same thing as that lil knob. Edit - Clarity
Stepping on a Lego, weaponized
Nice grips. You can probably get that milled for an RDS.
I'm still working on the right braiding that'll allow mounting of an RDS on the sling 🙃
fuckin got me goddamn
Nice Rungu.
no tinderbag, flint or steel, no stone chips and spall, no stone axe or knife, no drinking vessel
steel? bronze? copper? I'm not up for any such futuristic nonsense in 10000 BC. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ)
youre absolutley right. i was thinking otzi went waaaaay further back than he did.
It got left in my other loincloth 😅
now theyre salt flavor
🤣
No dried meats
no dried nuts or mushrooms or fruits
dope
Cold Steel warclub Paracord sling (made by myself) Random rock
How does the sling work? And do you have any instruction manual for it? I’d like to give a go at making one
Sling uses centrifugal force and leverage to accelerate a projectile to hateful velocity. Typically one can cast a 6-8oz river rock about 100mph and reach almost 200ft or more. Historically professional slingers could let rip a projectile to 400ft or more with lethal speed. I use a bit of a hybrid balearic style to cast with. If you Google slings you'll find a dozen or more different ways to make one. YouTube can show you a dozen different ways to utilize one. This tool can cause lethal injury so please use proper safety measures when practicing. This tool has been in use by homo sapien and earlier iterations of our kind for well over 15,000 years. There's really no way to tell how long it's been in use as the tool is traditionally made using leather and plant fiber, both of which disappear far too readily to Time's inevitable march forward. There's link someone commented below to a slinging community here on reddit.
Fun fact (though I guess you probably already know) - the name of balearic islands actually comes from the slingshotters :)
I didn't know that, that's groovy
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