Slings

[Lozart]

Their YT channel also covers 2 and 1 point slings too.

[jcheeseright]

buys £300+ gun, admits that it's really heavy... spends £10 on a sling.

 

[Russe11]

Whats wrong with a £10 sling? I have never paid over £10 for a sling. A sling has one job, to hold the rifle when you're not using it. If you need to use the rifle, it should already be in your hands. For £5 you can get a ww2 dated surplus sling for a sten gun and for £10 you can get a Lee Enfield sling. the problem comes when you are trying to look tacticool. If I can carry my all steel Sten gun or my Wood and Steel Lee Enfield in my hands for the majority of the day then you pansies can manage your M4's with their plastic and lightweight alloys. Jeez kids these days....

[jcheeseright]

would you trust a 5kg gun that cost over £300 to a bit of chinese nylon and monkey metal that cost £10?

I certainly wouldn't.

especially not when you can get a decent one point made by a reputable manufacturer for less than £20:

http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/blackhawk-storm-sling-qd-version-70gs15bk-1802-p.asp

Or a 2-point for £10.95:

http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/blackhawk-universal-tactical-sling-70ut00bk-533-p.asp

 

Both of those slings will hold your bodyweight if you need them to, the china sling... maybe not.

[BrightCandle]

It doesn't need to hold your body weight, it doesn't even need to hold your newborns weight, it needs to hold 5KG. The amount of nylon even in these cheap slings is more than enough for doing that job. Spend on features and build quality if that is what you want but a piece of string will do the job, its just not as comfortable.

[jcheeseright]

the nylon will hold up, but will the stitching, will the cheaply made clips and triglides?

 

more importantly, for the sake of a few quid is it worth the risk?

[Mike636]

It doesn't need to hold your body weight, it doesn't even need to hold your newborns weight, it needs to hold 5KG.

Holy shit 5 KG?! What do you feed your babies?

 

I think the point Mr Cheeseright was making is that IF you use a sling at some point your £300 + gun may hang from it and there is always a chance your cheap sling may fail just as you walk past that ravine/mud filled hole/velociraptor pen and then you'll be upset. I see it sometimes when people buy a cheap pistol holster and their pistol disappears mid-game.

[Lozart]

the nylon will hold up, but will the stitching, will the cheaply made clips and triglides?

 

more importantly, for the sake of a few quid is it worth the risk?

I hear what your saying, but having spent many years playing guitars that both cost and weigh more than £300 hanging off straps that cost no more than a tenner and were undoubtedly made in the land of the rising yuan and never had an issue I'm not sure it's as big a problem as you're saying it is. Now granted, I am looking at a was sling once they get some in stock but my biggest chance of damaging my guns is when I (regularly) trip over my own feet!

[jcheeseright]

I suppose it depends largely upon your playing style. I put my gun and sling through a lot more than most people (Kurt Cobain et al excluded) will put their guitars through.

 

Like the marui GBB thread argument happening in another thread on the forum, it all comes down to anecdotal vs experiential knowledge. I've seen lots of Chinese made sling hardware (loops, triglides, swivels, clips etc) fail over time eventually resulting in the gun hitting the floor rather hard (happened to me in fact with a knock off magpul MS2 sling, £500 gun fell 4' onto concrete when the front clip sheared).

 

For the sake of a few quid is it worth buying a cheapo sling?

[Lozart]

Absolutely, I'm sure it's down to how you treat it. As I'm equally sure a cheap gun well cared for will potentially outlast an expensive gun ridden hard and put away wet. All I'm saying is that there's nothing wrong with buying cheap stuff if your expectations are in line with what you have.

[Esoterick]

the nylon will hold up, but will the stitching, will the cheaply made clips and triglides?

 

more importantly, for the sake of a few quid is it worth the risk?

 

Exactly, I always thought it seems like the strangest part of your gear to be stingy with. Well aside from dodgy clone eye pro. Not that you really need to buy something like a real MS3 to get a good sling, like you mentioned in a previous post.

 

My local has really steep embankments that are around 10ft in places. I'd rather not risk seeing HK416 fly barrel first down one of them.