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Shepherd slingers edition.
>Post Slings You've made/Matirials you used to make them
>Post how you made them
>Post pics of pots or jars you smashed with the slings you braided.
>Slings are very good weapons on par with Bows and Arrows, and have been stated by numerous civilizations that they are better than Archers and even out range them.
>The Jews utilized them very often and have been using them for thousands of years by them, just look at the story of David and Goliath, weather or not you believe it actually happened, it showed that the Israelites have been using them well into antiquity
>The Greeks also used them extensively as light infantry, specifically the Rhodians, and Xenophon stated in the Anabasis that Slingers can out range archers and stated that they paid 200 Rhodians to spend a day making slings so they could chase off the Persians fallowing them.
>The Late Roman writer, Vegetius, said that Roman legionaries should all carry slings due to how useful and effective they were.
>the Phoenicians also utilized slingers very much and used them to fight the Romans during the Punic Wars. and One of the Roman consoles was struck and injured by a slingers bullet while at the battle of Cane
>The Aztecs also used them with Clay Baked projectiles and fielded hundreds of slingers at a time.
>The Inca also used slings over archers and even found a way to render arows useless using llama wool and weaving it so tightly that shooting a person with an arrow was like shooting a mash mellow and leaving the wearer un harmed from arrow fire.
>Post Slings You've made/Matirials you used to make them
>Post how you made them
>Post pics of pots or jars you smashed with the slings you braided.
>Slings are very good weapons on par with Bows and Arrows, and have been stated by numerous civilizations that they are better than Archers and even out range them.
>The Jews utilized them very often and have been using them for thousands of years by them, just look at the story of David and Goliath, weather or not you believe it actually happened, it showed that the Israelites have been using them well into antiquity
>The Greeks also used them extensively as light infantry, specifically the Rhodians, and Xenophon stated in the Anabasis that Slingers can out range archers and stated that they paid 200 Rhodians to spend a day making slings so they could chase off the Persians fallowing them.
>The Late Roman writer, Vegetius, said that Roman legionaries should all carry slings due to how useful and effective they were.
>the Phoenicians also utilized slingers very much and used them to fight the Romans during the Punic Wars. and One of the Roman consoles was struck and injured by a slingers bullet while at the battle of Cane
>The Aztecs also used them with Clay Baked projectiles and fielded hundreds of slingers at a time.
>The Inca also used slings over archers and even found a way to render arows useless using llama wool and weaving it so tightly that shooting a person with an arrow was like shooting a mash mellow and leaving the wearer un harmed from arrow fire.
