Picture of why I love Appleseed

[Yukon227]

I use a sling to help support and stabilize on my rifles but I still don't know that I do it correctly.

Regardless, that is one BEAUTIFUL gun.

 

[7.62-5.56Plinker]

maybe he carries his rifle upside-down... hahaha

 

[spitfire51]

He could probably still use it as a hasty sling.

 

[Stschil]

Its a refinished stock off a 10/22 international... the stock style is called a mannlicher...

i found it while browsing pictures to show my wife since we are redoing her ruger. she picked a factory contour stainless shilen match barrel being put into a american black walnut mannlicher stock w/ a montycarlo syle raised comb, all made out of a AA fine fancy stock blank.... gimme three months and ill be putting pictures up.

Three months? That's a long time to wait for gun porn!

Added:
I put a 1907 on my AR and LOVE it. So much so, that I'm going to get another and use it on my Mossy 500 for shotgun season this year. I've tried it and you would not believe how much it helps tame that beast when lobbing Remy copper solid sabots downrange.

 

[snowrs]

I have had slings on alot of my rifles growing up but I would have never been able to tell you that was backwards. They were always used as glorified carry strap. I guess I should go to An Appleseed as well

 

[greyhound47]

Not only is it backwards, but is it upside down too? I can't quite tell.

At tomorrow's Garand match, we will spend the vast majority of the preparation period getting 1907 and web slings correctly on rifles.

We are glad to do it. But I continue to be amazed at how guys just throw slings on their rifles. Changing the world, one shooter at a time.

I took High Power Rifle with sloughfoot a number of years ago and learned how to use the sling. Great course, great fun and people. Try it!

 

[Bubba]

Ok, yeah, I need to learn that stuff. Should be able to duplicate it with webbing; I have a lot of that and the connectors and whatnot.

A 1907 with webbing would be interesting to be sure. One generally applies a twist to the leather of a 1907 to get it to lay properly, and I'd be curious to see if webbing is rigid enough to hold the twist while entering the sling.

One of the things that makes the 1907 the King of Slings is that, once rigged, it can do many things without further adjustment. The short loop (that ends near the trigger guard) forms a loop for securing around the upper arm in a configuration called the loop sling. The larger loop formed by the entire sling (forend to butt stock) can be adjusted independently from the other, allowing the use of what we call hasty sling, which passes behind but does not encircle the upper arm. The rifleman can select the sling configuration he feels appropriate and enter it relatively quickly and without changing the sling.

Where we see webbing used for "proper" slings, it's generally the US GI Web Sling. The web sling is just as useful as the 1907, and can provide just as much mechanical advantage. It also uses less material and adjusts more simply. The down side to the GI web sling is that it can only be rigged as one type of sling at a time. To enter the loop sling configuration, the rear of the sling must be unclipped from the rifle and the loop pulled from an H-buckle. The manipulations required make the GI sling slower, and restricts use of the more stable loop configuration to situations where there is plenty of time to make the adjustments. Either sling choice will provide a versatile and useful aid to stability. The leather's classier, though (says the guy with something like nine GI web slings in current use).

 

[ATM]

...The leather's classier, though (says the guy with something like nine GI web slings in current use).

I'm a lover of the GI web slings as well.

(I'm sure I'd love the 1907 leather if I were a classier guy.)

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I do have a thought. I fire right handed rifles left handed by default, so, especially with a bolt, it would slow me down significantly with the action, getting wound up and unwinding for each shot. For a single shot it might be best, but if there was any prospect of having to repeat, I'd be at a disadvantage.

 

[Stschil]

I do have a thought. I fire right handed rifles left handed by default, so, especially with a bolt, it would slow me down significantly with the action, getting wound up and unwinding for each shot. For a single shot it might be best, but if there was any prospect of having to repeat, I'd be at a disadvantage.

Not nessesaarily. I've seen plenty of left handed shooters using right sided bolt guns and still score Rifleman. They merely adjusted to working the bolt from above and overtop to avoid having to lose their NPOA by changing body and sling positions. It is not quite comfortable, but it leaves you the absolute best chance of keeping multiple rounds in a tight shot group.

 

[Stschil]

I'm a lover of the GI web slings as well.

(I'm sure I'd love the 1907 leather if [STRIKE] I were a classier guy.) [/STRIKE] If it were tanned to look more like bacon

FIFY!

 

[ATM]

FIFY!

Mmm... a slightly greasy strap, pliable in the middle but with a crispness out at the edges...

You may be onto something here.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Well, maybe, but I keep them pretty tight without using the sling that way, 10 rounds in about 15 seconds prone, no bags or bipods or anything. Might take me from 3moa to 2moa, but I'd save this for automatics.

 

[miguel]

Similar video from the same guy. I really like this one.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRPfj-6bRZM&feature=related[/ame]

 

[Cemetery-man]

Those sure are some fancy slings. I just use a bungie chord!

 

[RH822-A]

and then you see the sling on backwards making you think.....

Does he
REALLY know how to use them???

Or, maybe he did it on purpose because he prefers it that way... just like I did on my Mini-14 25 years ago.