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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 769427" data-attributes="member: 10948">How to use a Sling & Bullet 101:This is assuming that anyone reading it knows what a sling looks like1) Place round stone, approximately 1/2 pound into the leather tongue on a sling.2) Hold the main strap tightly in the palm of your hand, with the other strand being held firmly yet loosely between your thumb and forefinger.  Whirl around head or at side at speed enough to allow centripetal force to keep the stone in the sling, but not enough to disorient the slinger as to what position in the 360 degree arc that the sling is moving in.3) When target it sighted and chosen, and the position of the sling is beind the slinger perpendicular to the spine of the weilder, whip the sling in the direction of the target, releasing the loose strand when the sling is at position approximately 20 degrees past the top of the wielder's spine. It is recommended that the weilder exhale imediately before  releasing the stone as to prevent change in the postion of the torso, to increase accuracy(this works with firing arrows as well.)There ya go. That's just the basics. It takes a while to get good enough with a sling to hit vital spots and deal some real pain and damage, but it is a bit easier to learn than a bow, and ammunition is readily available almost anywhere on the planet.A skilled slinger can loose more than 10 stones per minute. by the way, the reason rogues do not have proficiency in slings is that they tend to create this dead-give-away whirring noise, which is not that great or stealth.  hence they are not preferred.  that's almost like asking why they have no proficiency in shot puts.by the way, it's not 'lacrosse'. that game was created by a bunch of idiot french who though that the stick looked like the cross carried by bishops, hence 'la crosse'.  the game was originally called 'bagatawe', or 'little brother of war'.  it was a game in which plains indian tribes would meet and play a game in which the goal was to disable as many opponents as possible(i.e. broken limbs, knockouts, etc, but no killing) and to get a ball into a circle guarded by the Chief the of the opposition tribe, by hitting it with a spoon-like club.leave it to the french to pussify anything they see.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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