What's going on guys this is black Scout survival and today I'm going to talking about how to use a shepherd sling and shepherd slings have been around you probably the most famous is David killed Goliath and in the Bible using a shepherd sling and they've been used for a long time different militaries and stuff would I carry these.

Is like a projectile weapon and also as a last-ditch weapon and also even to this day sheep herders use this the you know to sling rocks at wolves and that's like the whole purpose of of what this is for slaying rocks at wolves whether guarding the Sheep and that is still done to this day in some regions of the world this particular one there's lots.

Out there this is made by my good friends over there ready man and bassist a nylon pouch and it has a paracord and this is tighten paracord tighten paracord has a brass snare wire fishing line and wax jute in here so you have a survival capabilities within this but there's lots of different people that say different things usually you want.

Your sling to be about as a far apart as your wingspan as you can see - here on the end of the loops you're going to have a loop and then you have a knot now there's a lot of people that do this a lot of different ways and I actually I studied a you know and found guys that actually do it over you know across the water on how they do it and i mimicked.

Them and i know this is much much more accuracy in a quicker time span than I've seen other guys some guys will put on the ring finger and I hold it like this and sling it I find that to be not accurate at all I've also seen guys bringing the loop in on the ring finger and do like this also to me loss of accuracy to me the best method of doing.

It is putting this on my pointer finger the loop on my pointer finger and then grab so like this right here and this just barely pinch the knot with my tips of my fingers because you want to release this at the time you're throwing it so just keep this loop right here at your knuckle on your index finger now I see a lot of guys swinging like this as.

Well and throwing I find a loss of accuracy the guys I seen over and I was studying over in Israel they do a figure eight motion like this right here and release two you know at the target kinda like you're throwing a baseball and obviously that will take just time and practice to get your accuracy but like I said I see a lot of guys doing this I've.

Seen guys doing this honestly the best way is to me is to gain accuracy quickest to do a figure eight motion also you can also grab and hold it and swing one time overhand also works well also if you want to try it like that I'd do it both ways and swing like that but like I said you want to lightly just hold this knot with your finger and just.

Swing and then at time of release right about where you're with throw a baseball you release it and the momentum of this will you know shoot that rock out there now I notice light rocks is hard to be accurate with you on you know heavier rocks not real heavy rocks but heavier rocks these are some about the size I've been using smoother rocks like River.

Stones work the best but I couldn't find those right now but this is the type I'm using the size and these work very well for me but anyhow let's go ahead and demo this and let's try to hit the battle box target a few times