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>OP is a reenactorfag who wants to make himself a fustibalus aka a staff sling
Does /diy/ have any experience with that? How tos, materials, measurements?
Also need as many historical sauces as possible, especially for 13th century
>>1021517
You're not serious, right?
The sling is one of the simplest weapons mankind ever crafted, and this is just a sling on a stick. Wood and leather haven't changed since it's heyday, the single thing you should have to spend more than ten seconds thinking about if you're a reenactor is what kind of cord they'd have access to.
>>1021517
Throw spears at niggas, works much better and easier
In terms of the staff-sling, looking at about broomstick length or around 2m of fairly tough, flexible timber (oak, yew, hickory or spotted gum) and 60-100cm of the sling component with a pouch (hemp rope and leather) which is just attached via a hole in the stick
>>1021517
Find a branch or cut down a tree for the stick.
Kill a cow for the leather.
Make the rope out of whatever plants were available.
Find a rock to sling
>>1021570
OP here
Since the dimension of both modern reconstructions and historical representations vary so much, I was wandering if anybody here did some experiment.
Question about materials was quite dumb, agreed: just wished to find something 100% 13th century approved (for instance: would linen cord be better than hemp? and so on)
>>1021575
javelin in the pic seems to have some sort of string propulsion yeah? how does it work?
>>1021613
The 4th century ones where wound with a loop of string or cord
So when its thrown, you get a bit more leverage (kind of like an atlatl)- but it also imparts spin on the javelin as rifling imparts spin on a bullet so it flies much true
