The Sling as a Weapon

[arnisador]

More than one Israeli soldier of my acquaintance has said that he or she was in a unit with an Ethiopian or Arab who grew up herding. They were deadly and deadly accurate with slings.

There is a story I mentioned here about police use of the slingshot! It's the kind with a Y-shaped stick.

 

[Blindside]

More than one Israeli soldier of my acquaintance has said that he or she was in a unit with an Ethiopian or Arab who grew up herding. They were deadly and deadly accurate with slings. An article a few years ago, sorry but I can't remember the cite, showed that a typical sling with the standard Pellet, Lead, M1A-1 could hit with the kinetic energy of a modern .38 special. That's not shabby, and it's why the sling survived for so long as a herdsman's and a military weapon.

I think that article was from Journal of Asian Martial Arts, printed 2000/2001 or so.