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After you've mastered cutting cards and blowing up marbles... the next stage in your accuracy evolution could be shooting and lighting strike anywhere matches.
Penley makes a pretty good match for this purpose... but I've had reports of the light tipped green colored Diamond brand strike anywhere's working okay too.
To increase your odds of striking the match angle it towards you a little and just so barely scrape the white with your shot. Using light weight ammo at around 200 fps or slower helps a little as well as making sure your matches are as dry as possible too.... a blow dryer works well for this purpose, but I've heard tell some guys drying them in an oven at a low temperature also.
The way I first started lighting matches was by placing them in a large pony clamp and angling them towards me by about 5 degrees. Once I was able to strike those fairly consistently, I went to the upside down suspended shot, then a smaller clamp and then setting it all in motion before moving further and further away.
There's a very old yet very true saying that applies.... "if you're not growing then you're dying."
It's my opinion that's kind of like how you should view your journey into the world of the slingshot... if you're not getting better and achieving more and more, whether it be in your shooting, building or knowledge then your interest will stagnate and die.
