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sling bullet vs human head with leather armor.
44 gram lead bullet, 93mph (136.4 fps)=38 joules.
Lethal, or atleast fight stopper, through thick leather cap.
Lethal, or atleast fight stopper, through thick leather cap.
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Historical sling bullets vs human head.
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this is the first of several tests to come. here is the speeds, weights, energies, and measurements of the throws/bullets that connected, as well as high speed throw at the end. 1: 44 grams, 97 fps/(29.5mps), 19 joules. no serious damage to skull. 32mm long 2. 44 grams, 117 fps/(35.6mps), 28 joules. full penetration into the skull and brain matter. 31mm long 3. 44 grams, 153 fps/(46.6mps), 48 j...
Sling bullets vs ballistic gel (again!) pt 2
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60 gram sling bullet penetrated 4 1/2 inches. 35 gram sling bullet penetrated 3 1/2 inches.
Sling Bullets vs ballistic gel! Again!
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1st 50 gram hit penetrated 5 2/8 inches. 2nd 50 gram hit penetrated 3 1/2 inches. 3rd 35 gram hit penetrated 3 6/8 inches. these results prove to me that sling bullets have very good penetrating capabilities, and I plan to put another video out in the future using this same setup but using a bow for comparison.
Did David really kill Goliath? Sling Vs Ballistic Head! (light ammo) PART 1
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44 gram steel impact at 2:05 speed=73 mph/energy=25 Joules. damage: spit eyebrow. 44 gram steel impact at 2:35 speed=85 mph/energy=32 Joules. damage: torn cheek 66 gram steel impact at 4:25 speed=73 mph/energy=36 Joules. damage: broken teeth and torn lip 66 gram steel impact at 4:40 speed=73 mph/energy=36 Joules. damage: indented brow bone 44 gram steel impact at 5:25 speed=83 mph/energy=30 Jou...
How accurate is a shepherd sling at 5 yards?
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How accurate is a shepherd sling at 5 yards?
.30 caliber break barrel airgun ballistic test! (vs Shepherd sling)
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.30 caliber break barrel airgun ballistic test! (vs Shepherd sling)
sling small caliber ammo test (22 yards)
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sling small caliber ammo test (22 yards)
Small caliber sling ammo lethality test (45 yards)
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ammo: 3/4 steel balls, 1 oz target: 3/4 inch wood board (mdf wood) distance: 45 yards.
Sling Power test vs wood!
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the wood used is two 3/4 inch boards taped together, with an ending thickness of 1 1/2 inches. Enjoy!
Sling bullet vs steel ball range test! Pt.1
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Sling bullet vs steel ball range test! Pt.1
Slin bullet vs steel ball range test! Pt. 2
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Slin bullet vs steel ball range test! Pt. 2
new chrono, better reads with short sling!
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new chrono, better reads with short sling!
40 meter test on 1/2 inch MDF. Sling Ballistic Test! Part 1.
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40 meter test on 1/2 inch MDF. Sling Ballistic Test! Part 1.
Part 2- 40 meter test on 1/2 inch MDF board. Sling Ballistic Test!
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Part 2- 40 meter test on 1/2 inch MDF board. Sling Ballistic Test!
hammer, sling and combat knofe versus MDF 1/2 inch board. Damage comparison!
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hammer, sling and combat knofe versus MDF 1/2 inch board. Damage comparison!
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Learning to shoot on one leg🤷♂️
Have you tried an overhand shot to maybe increase your accuracy? Im only just learning and only have one working arm , Any suggestions will be appreciated , I apologize for the criticism though i. Do only mean to be helpful
Are you casting those yourself, or using fishing weights?
😊 meant to post a while ago but honestly forgot. Hope to post more in the future 😉
Interesting. Thanks for the vid.
3/4” three quarters of an inch son👍
It is just a story about Israel defeating the Phoenicians. Which was written to make fun of the Phoenicians/ Palestine. It's a story from the bronze age. 1500 years before Jesus was born.
@828312 I don't know brother, I think The Bible is pretty awesome because of how ancient it is and how much detail there is. Either way on what u believe, it is one of the oldest, largest, and most complete collection of books from ancient times known today which is pretty cool. However, this test was designed just to find out how heavy of shot would have been necessary to be lethal with a short sling like this that was likely used in the story, so I hope u enjoyed the video! 😀
nothin quite as satisfying as the Assault Style Shoelace eh? Man, could sling all day if I could....... makes me mad when shoulder and back get too sore. ROCK on dude.
He had supernatural help
I love the story of David and Goliath. Imagine how much stronger and healthier they were back then! I can only imagine the strength behind that swing!
i was not expecting that much penetration, very cool
Gotta swing it around more you'd get it moving much faster.
he could have definitely knocked Goliath down or out, and finished him with a sword. However, he killed bears and lions, so his accuracy was there. If he hit Goliath in his giant head with the right rock, and a little God juice, then there is no doubt in my opinion that Goliath could've been knocked out or killed by a sling.
The sling was a very deadly weapon which used by a trained slinger could kill or inflict a severe wound on even an armored opponent
A scientist suggests that because of Goliath has gigantism, makes his blood vessels in his head fragile, and so any rock of any size could kill him
@Rcampo42 perhaps, but if we are taking the text seriously, it states that Goliath was a man of war with large amounts of experience. If he did, he would've died a long time before David more than likely. I've heard that explanation, and to me it sounds like the same thing as saying "well, the real reason this man died wasn't because he was shot in the heart, but because He had a heart condition that made him vulnerable to bullets" Here's a direct quote: 1 Samuel 17:33 KJV [33] And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
Thats not the type of sling that was used...
I was thinking that since the head wasn’t attached to shoulders and allowed to slide back on the table that maybe the impact would cause more damage on a real person . Just a what if kinda thought .
You're using the wrong type of throw for the length of the sling The style of throw being demonstrated is often referred to as the Greek style and is meant to be utilized with a significantly shorter sling.
Gotta disagree there, I have a radar and have found little to no difference in accuracy or speed with multiple variations, this style is called tahitian, greek doesn't normally have the cord touching ur neck. The reason I use this style is because I can easily have a shot ready to go and comfortably walk and so on, but ballistically balearic style, Greek, byzantine, they all have about the same ballistics 😉
There is no style called Tahitian. You're referencing information put out in the book by Gigi York, who has no background in Oceanic culture outside of Micronesia; she technically specialized in the archeology of Guam and the Mariana Islands. Guam is essentially the last Oceanic nation to preserve its slinging culture, but it is not representative of every culture across Oceania. I've seen this style of casting done in Guam but no where in Polynesia, of which Tahiti belongs to. That being said, we mentioned the same issue with the sling length on the forum post you made 2 years ago. But as we said back then, doesn't matter as long as you're accurate.
"Am I a dog, boy, that you come at me with a stick??" Goliath was killed with a staff sling, which can chuck a much more massive projectile.....
Quite possibly, but this test is meant to show the lethality of a handheld sling. Nobody questions how effective a rock the size of ur foot is when chucked at ur head 😉
Back when I was younger I could throw a rock roughly the size of a grenade 80 yards as I paced it off@@newworldmartialartist7245
Great video, that's a technique I have not seen before do you have any tips on how to shoot this way, looking at it is one thing the timing and release and doing is another, I like it.
"only 83 mph" it is impressive what a piece of chord can do
really is, especially since the max with the same sling is 104-110mph! could probably make one just by cutting a shirt into one long, thick strip and have an effective weapon.
I find it easier to sling heavier stuff in the 5oz range (140gm) - give it a try. Thanks for the interesting vid.
These things would go right through flesh like a bullet. They had specific tools meant for removing sling ammo from the body. I've seen videos of it destroying Roman plate armor
Hello again! 👋 The lead bullets I used at the very end absolutely would penetrate, I have multiple videos up of sling bullets penetrating ballistic gel (which is shockingly tough and hard to pierce, even a 40# recurve bow only got through about 6 inches, while the sling bullets got about 5 1/2 inches). And ya, I saw that vid too, crazy how powerful these are 😀
If you swing it around more than once before releasing you build up way more momentum
That is actually a very common misconception. The only force given to a projectile in a sling of this size, is given on the very LAST rotation. Just like pitching. Every other spin is simply to keep the projectile in the pouch, not to give it more power 😉
Couldn't imagine a man with strength enough to hand fight a bear, or lion with a sling. Goliath didn't even know😮
😀 I definitely wouldn't want to fight a lion or bear that's for sure! Though if I had to pick a weapon and it couldn't be a gun, I would absolutely pick a sling with a stone, or steel ball, or even better a lead bullet, weighing 150-200grams. The sling is such a force multiplier its insane what can be done when using heavy ammo, and honestly have no doubts that a stone weighing 200 grams would break lion bones. (BTW, the weight ranges I used in this video was 44 grams up to 66 grams. And nowhere near my max effort. The throw that shattered the skull was a 66gram steel ball at right around 90mph, my max with that same sling is about 107mph. With the lead bullet, weighing about 60 grams, was MUCH less. Only around 70-75mph and it punched into the brain. The energy would be more than double what was shown from the lead bullet if I gave it my max effort)
that's a heck of a lot more than 1d4 damage...
Ikr?! DnD severely underestimates slings
If you will recall, David cut Goliaths head off with Goliaths sword. Either way, yeah he slew him.
He did cut off his head so ya, definitely dead lol. But The Bible does specify that the stone from the sling is what killed him. Here's a direct quote: 50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. 51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
he used a stone a big stone like a fist
You get people who confuse slings with modern slingshots and insist they couldn't have been deadly. It's pretty well documented that ancient armies not only used them but they went to the trouble of recruiting foreign mercenaries skilled in their use when they couldn't find enough among their own people. I doubt they would have gone to that much trouble if they weren't useful.
Like other folks have pointed out, the sling stone sunk into Goliath's head, though head injuries are not always an instant kill, which is why David beheaded him with his own sword. My own theory is that he stunned Goliath really good, but noticed he was still breathing, so he used the sword as a precaution
U may very well be correct, but just from the verses that we get this story, it does specify what slew him. Here's a direct quote from KJV: 50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him. 51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
Man I question the lethality of slings I think they were just meant to wound and were cheap they are hard to aim with and so far the one I made won't go further than a 15 lbs bow and I'm using rocks of every size heavy light it doesn't matter than go about as far as like an amateur baseball player could throw the only thing is it moves way faster than I can throw perhaps it could kill you but I don't think it can even still all these guys through at such a close range like at that range your 4 dashes and sword lunge away from death I doubt you would be slinging metal balls at that distance you'd probably draw your sword arrows are better
Hey man! I understand why u think that, all my tests are from up close too, but so is the vast majority of firearm tests too. It's simply for making the test easy to perform, nothing more. As for ur experience with them... well, all I can say is that I commonly throw at distances of 170 yards or farther with my short slings, my long slings easily pass 280 yards. With 1000 grain steel balls. This test also proved that even a short sling with VERY light ammo (yes, 66 grams is light for blunt ammo) , can and have kill. Also, the romans LOVED the sling bullets for their insane range and there are several historical documents on slings having a dramatic effect on battles. By the way, if I wanted to have a dramatic, head popping showcase, I would have used just sling bullets or historically accurate stones (100 grams or more) and with a medium or long sling. I did this test to demonstrate the ABSOLUTE LOWEST END capabilities of the sling. A super short sling, medium-low effort throws, to simulate downrange effects even if almost all speed and momentum was lost on overly light projectiles. I recommend u do some research into it, slinging.org is filled with knowledgeable experts and also an entire section dedicated strictly to historical and archeological knowledge of the sling. Edit: one more thing, there are instances where slingers were said to outrage bowmen, heck the English longbow didn't make the sling disappear, it is still in medieval artwork on battlefields. And sling bullets easily outrange even 160lb longbow, even I with my small amount of experience completely outrange 160lb longbows, Tod's workshop did some range tests and I didn't have trouble beating their distances with lead ammo.
I can shoot 125 yards with mine. Practice a lot and you WILL get good results.
Honestly your not skilled enough for this demonstration respectfully
Ouch lol, thanks though for speaking ur opinion in a kind manner. I know I am not anywhere near as good as alot of other slingers Out there, but I figured that because of that, it would give a good idea as to what a general, more casual or novice slinger could do with very light blunt ammo. Out of curiosity, what could I improve on? Thanks 😊
@@newworldmartialartist7245 im Not good at all but I would figure for this experiment to be truly accurate it would require a skilled slinger, as most shepherd would be because this is literally their life
@TonyMontana-yd2gz If I could get some extremely skilled slinger to come and test, I probably would, though sadly anyone with alot of experience simply is not near me. And hey, if I, with my small amount of experience, can do this kind of damage to a head, imagine how much better an expert would be 😉
I wonder how Jacked Shepherds were?
Now coat it in dog turd and do it again for science.
Consider powder coating sling bullets as is done with firearm bullets instead of jacketing. It withstands a ball pein hammer smash as part of the testing.
wtf is it powder coated with, vibranium? You might be confused about powder coating properties, they dont add any hardness to bullets, why would they smash it with a hammer, much less a "ball pein" hammer? That would be a really stupid tool to use for industrial testing and a really stupid idea for testing bullets lol.
I like to backup my sling with a .40 cal, a big knife/short sword & a pen.
Sheeperds sling
How are you aiming with that style I'd be interested to see a video of that style and how to use it a little more in depth
I'll see about putting a video out on that then, thx for the vid idea 😀
Give it more rotation
I would like to see it being done with stones, different types of stones, like big ones, ragged ones, smooth ones.
Great video man, you have an interesting technique with the sling, gonna give it a try another day. It is great to see what this weapons could do with a person, if it was to be used.
He had a braided sling much better that a floppy string your useing
Lol, well yes he very well may have, however mine is made of cord and leather, which historically was used quite often. 2nd, if they are braided, they are much heavier slings and require more effort to achieve the same velocity that a light sling would.
@@newworldmartialartist7245 I spose it works with that round the neck style you do your very good at it
Why wasn't full power used the whole time? Wouldn't full power be realistic of what was used in battle/david and Goliath?
I doubt it, and that is simply because accuracy is equivocally more difficult the more effort used. For instance, in this video which has most of the shots occurring at 5-6 yards, maybe 30% were head hits? While the rest would be body blows. That's with most of those throws being at a relatively accurate effort speedwise. Now of course david would have been a much better slinger than myself, but the rule still applies, and as such if David was launching at Goliath, it was very likely from 20 yards away or more. Thus he would probably be trying to be more accurate, since he already knew the power would be plenty. Also, I did this test using VERY light ammo for a sling because I knew anything much heavier would obliterate it, and, most agree that for blunt ammo, a sling is better suited for 100-200 gram stones. I was using steel balls weighing no more than 66 grams. The only good ammo used was the sling bullet made of lead, biconical, weighing 65 grams that instantly punctured through and broke the skull toward the end of the video.
I've never seen your slinging style before. Is that the only way you sling?
So... Not enough to be considered actually effective by modern standards
Depends, the 410 judge shotgun revolver send rounds only about 6 inches into gel and people still use it. In comparison to most modern day handguns however, yeah it can't match them but at the same time a 40# recurve bow was also used on this same gel block and also only got 6 inches, while on a feral pig it went all the way through, so I'm questioning the validity of gel tests since on living tissue everything seem to be getting vastly better results than the gel sais. Good testing medium, but definitely not realistic to tissue. (Also tried some pistol crossbows that have been used to harvest feral hogs, and they only got 2 inches into the gel)
@@newworldmartialartist7245 arrows typically don't do well in gel. I'm not entirely sure why. It's probably because gel isn't a perfect replacement for flesh. However there are standards for bullet penetration, and 6 inches ain't it. There is a reason the Judge is viewed as a gimmick. It's because it's ineffective by modern standards. You want 12-18 inches of penetration through clothes into gel to be in the effective zone for a bullet. Don't get me wrong, slings can absolutely be fatal against decent sized animals and people, but there is a reason they quickly fell out of favor for anything larger than small game.
@jorgi86 I agree with everything u just said, other than it falling out of favor. It was used for longer than bows, was invented prior to bows, and used all the way up into the Spanish Civil War to throw grenades. In comparison to a firearm in purely effect on target, 0 weapons compare to even handguns. However, even with just a 80 gram stone (a little smaller than an egg), a long sling used by a skinnier guy like myself can be launched 300+ yards. And with another video of mine against a ballistic head, just 66 grams launched out of a short sling is able to shatter the skull. Not including the lead bullets. It's completely free weapon, dead silent, and can have comparable (though still a little less accurate) accuracy to a bow if given training time of around 6 months, and ammunition is free, or u can make some long range ammo like these bullets that have blunt force ability and a little penetrating capabilities.
@@jorgi86 Slings didn't fall out of favor quickly. In fact, they saw use on the battlefield up to the 15th century. The army of the Castilian king had thousands of slingers in his army in 1386 (De Hoffmayer, 1982). The effectiveness of the sling on the battlefield doesn't seem to be why it fell out of favor. Instead, it's believed that the level of expertise required to effectively use the sling on the battlefield is what lead to it eventually disappearing from the battlefield. For someone to be extremely skilled with the sling, they needed to be trained from childhood to use it. Compared to the bow, it was just more expensive and more difficult to have trained slingers. Slings were extremely effective in themselves but on balance, it was just more cost efficient and quicker to have a bunch of people trained in using bows to rain down fire in the general direction of the enemy.
@@hereandnow3156 Slings were also used historically up into the first world war if memory serves correct, to extend the range of standard hand grenades. It wasn't widely practice but moreso born of out necessity in specific instances.
Love David and Goliath test and story to prove
As an ancient warrior, i wouldve feared that video 😂😂
looks like angular/conical/ rugby ball shaped ammo works great
Without watching your video I can say no, he did not. Fiction is fiction.
? Not saying it is a real story one way or the other (I personally believe it, but not everyone has to), the focus is on the power of a sling using lighter than normal projectiles. Thanks for taking time to comment and I hope u give the video a try 😊
My man. Sling length, technique, and projectile size all are factors. Plenty of historical sources from greek, roman period of people getting killed from a single sling head shot
sure, but the bible is pure fiction.@@ivanbarreras9445
@@ivanbarreras9445 Plenty of similar fantasy literature from Greek period too