Have any of you detractors ever went slinging and studied it to know what to do?
Rather my point, I do, as you quaintly put it, "went slinging", and DO know what to do. #4 "Where's my stone" is vaguely slinging. not one of the others is. If you were regularly confronted with useful figures of archers drawing their bows with their teeth, shooting arrows vertically or holding the arrow with their fists and the bow in two fingers you might, like me, get a bit 
ing sick of them.
Imagine you are holding a sling, like they are, both straps together in a clenched fist. Try to let go of one end while holding the other. Or are you planning on going over and asking your target for your sling back with every shot?
There is no slinger on earth looses as the angle #1 is doing. unless he is going for the coveted 'lob vaguely toward the enemy I am not looking at'shot.
#2 and 3 are simply ludicrous, but the last one is beyond that. When you sling properly the tip of your sling cracks like a whip, as it moves faster than the speed of freaking sound. Can you hear HIS sling cracking like a whip? I hear cheesey Piano Music, and Olympic judges scoring his dancing out of ten.
Th problem is that not one figure-designer in a thousand has seen a slinger slinging. If you want to see someone "went swording" you are spoiled for choice on TV, the movies, other people's figures. There ARE slinging resources out there – but no one seesms to look.
Pat, (as I signed my first post) a slinger.
