How pouch Weight Affects Ammo Speed 

Thank you for making this video and sharing it with the community so that everyone can see the importance of a lighter pouch! I mainly use 7mm, 1/4”(6.35) and 6mm steel balls and I can confirm that the smaller and lighter the balls, the bigger the difference between a lighter and a heavier pouch. It is also very important to note that if you are using the most efficient band set for a given ammo size/weight than the weight of the pouch will play a significant role in the overall speed that can be achieved. I believe this is one very important area in our hobby that is addressed by virtually none of the RU-vidrs posting about catapults.

Great test, brother! It’s stuff like this that is so valuable! Appreciate you taking time to do this, brother!

Great work Mark, we've always wanted to show how pouches would affect the speed too, pouches itself always easy to be ignored. Glad to see you did it in a clear way.👍 That's why we make the pouches as small as possible now, and the holes on the pouches affect a bit too.

Thank you for sharing, great testing

You do very good informative work my Friend, I thank you for the effort you invest👍👍👍👍

Great test Mark. Super interesting

Interesting information, thanks

Very informative video Mark. Well done 👍🏻

Very cool and unique test. I'd imagine an oversized pouch fighting the aerodynamics doesn't help but ya weight is weight proved here.

Awesome info!

Excellent video 👍

I like your videos there's a lot of good information thank you very much.

Great video!! Always top notch information from ATO.

Thanks for the info my friend👍👍😍🤝

Awesome video again!

Great stuff thnx. Quality.

Excellent stuff Mark , i don’t think anyone else has done this test

Good job Mark! I used larger pouches when I started and have gravitated towards smaller ones. I get a better release plus seems like it would have to be a little less drag which probably makes more difference than I realized.

Great test! I enjoyed it. I have thought the same way. Some of my old leather pouches are way heavy compared to the wasp microfiber. I done a similar test on the chrony with the tag ends of the bands. The speed pick up with closely trimmed was a lot more than I woulda thought.

Interesting video! ..I use a fairly large pouch as i shoot 9.5/10 mm Steel and like to have something to hold on to as i find that the pouches i get from The Band Manufacturers GZK and Snipersling are a bit small for my Ammo so have to make my own out of leather and they are about as wide as my index finger and work for me quite well but I do realise that I am trading some speed for it although I reckon that the Jules of energy dumped on target is still sufficient for small Game and Pigeons etc Cheers for the video if you know of any supplier who sells decent sized pouches in leather i would be interested in trying them out

As usual Bro, a very interesting vid. My favourite pouch is as precious to me as my catty's. 🙂 Be well Mark.

Awesome video brother

Nice test Mark . I once was out with 2 identical setup, apart from one had a leather pouch, the other a microfiber, both pouches were cut using the same die . Shots from the leather setup dropped short of target, microfiber was bang on .

Very interesting info.... are you going to do a review on the axiom x?

Thanks for another video. I can tell you feel comfortable using that slingshot. I also like seeing it in action.👌👊🙏✌

Great video. Really well thought through

great tests brother, thanks for sharing

Interesting findings.

What if you use double instead of single bands? Shouldn't this provide double the force, implying same speed for twice the total mass of ammo + pouch? Greetings from Germany, awesome video series!

Very good video.

i used to use those nylon labels from clothes look into it super light

Interesting video. Got me thinking what the performance difference is testing degree by degree temperature wise. Fastest tapers, fastest bands, time bands held stretched, best matches to ammo sizes. The list could go on forever! We need a scientific slingist lab technician

Good experiment. I’ve noticed the Chinese use extremely light pouches? They give themselves every single advantage in their set up. They like to shoot smaller ammo too. And when you watch them on RU-vid they are crack shots with their catty’s. 👍🇬🇧

Con el frio en el que estas y hacer estas pruebas, solo demuestran el grado de pasion que existe en tu persona por la resortera... Slingshotmania a las olimpiadas. Excelente informacion. Saludos desde Mexico

Oh yes i went from a 1g pouch to a 0.3g it makes a way bigger difference than you'd think. #wyc

Slingshot world The book is available from which website???

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Ato thank you for showing the study.. Yes pouches make a difference to me! Some of the best pouches I have used so far is the #fowler, Warrior pouches, and super sure. Hey everyone just get outside and try these different setups. Get out of those dark holes and HUNT THE Good!

Where do you buy the slingshot bands

How is the sheshou 0.65 bands?

Thx for sharing Don't think you'd look good w a patch. Grab some glasses! Think about a young boy or girl losing eye after you creating interest ?!?! Just saying