b'OPENING SHOTSTWEAKY TECH ISSUEIn a world where our fun literally grows on trees, we embrace technology too.H Cool ones, beautiful ones, awesome ones and cheap ones ello and welcome to issue five. I have always and only ever thought about what goes into Slingshot World magazine from the readers point of view. If I was twelve year old me, given the chance to get the mag, all I would want to see is slingshots.as well as the most utterly extreme things that exist. Like Top Gear doing stuwith Bugatti Veyrons as well as Sabine spanking a diesel Transit van at the Nurburgring! I want to be entertained, maybe even to marvel here and there and to feel moved with a tickle right in the feels with stuaboutAdam - proof of my misspent slingshot culture and camaraderie. youth and squidgy joints.What I cant be bothered with is too much of the editor going on about how tough their job was. Its like the recording studio pop video. Where the job of being a musician is something they so utterly live for, that they cannot imagine we would find it boring to watch. You just like the tunes.Issue one was so astonishing to see get actually printed, that yes, I did take a page or two to thank those who helped make it happen. This fifth issue was more plates spinning than ever, to try to pull othe everyone-and-all-at-once thing. The last bits of lockdown and then sudden mobility delays due to fuel panic buying (remember that?) didnt help either.So to say I am kinda proud of who and what is in this issue is an understatement, no matter how arrogant that sounds! The people, I have Keith Dighton, Asa Wilson, Zachary Fowler, John Je ries and Slingshot Channel superstar, Jerg Sprave. The HOW TOs include setting up a club, making a belay catty, making a pinch pouch and finding your perfect set-up the easy way. Initial G. - Really Awesome But the tech is what names this one. We have the first ever slinged- Design. He who makes all this at Saunders SACO duelling target as well as their highly technical CBSlook so good.system. Both from Chuck Saunders at Wrist-Rocket HQ. We have a ridiculous five foot-long slingshot rifle, Italian target exotica from LUMBRO, the Gong Niu Tribe set of fishing sling-dart equipment with a very special closed-face wrist-reel. Then a di erent set of the latest, nastiest broadhead-arrow style hunting darts from GZK. Deeply dangerous and not for killing things in the UK. We get proper technical with the bandset makers, analysing elastics with the Chrony-F1 and we have the newest slings from Simpleshot and WASP as well as a slew of olde style classics from ProShot Catapults.All this, shoot reports and four pages of mooching, plus the most incredible collection of historical catapults in the whole world and some gorgeous catty art images and a bunch of cool sling miscellany from all around the world. Las Vegas to Italy, to Africa.And the cherry on the top is the first chapter of Mark Clarks book, King of The Weald, in Adventures, Scrapes & Misdemeanours. Jerg Sprave - We show you his This issue has been a long time coming but I hope you will agree it wasfeatures!worth the wait. This one is like a fruitcake thats all fruit.Adam RaynerMark Clark King of The Weald!003003 SSW005 P3 EDITORIAL.indd 3 29/11/2021 10:33'