AR Thread

[cambo]

What slings are best to use on a hunting AR? Side mounted?

[cambo]

have you run a bead of hitemp silicone between the top of your charging handle seats to the upper tussock?
highly recomend doing it if that gas in the face happens, best thing I ever done to my AR

Found the link to your suggestion Bill. Bloody easy to do and seems to be very effective from all reports.
Putting it here for others to see.
Suppressor use on an AR and Charging Handles - AR15.Com Archive

[gimp]

What slings are best to use on a hunting AR? Side mounted?

I like an easily adjustable simple 2-point, mounted as far forward on the side of the handguard as possible. Eg the proctor gun sling.

3-points are too complicated for no real function gain, single points don't give enough control when carrying any distance

I find a 2-point is useful for support, take a loop of it around the left wrist and brace left hand against something like a tree or rock or car or etc, them you can really lean into it, very stable. Will show what I mean in a video sometime. Works really well.

[cambo]

Cheers Gimp.

[Beavis]

V-TAC QUICK ADJUST SLING | Brownells

My favourite sling

[cambo]

Found a post on ar15.com on how to make your own vtac sling.
Now if I can find the parts needed........ only thing I can't seem to find so far is a quick release cam buckle.

[Beavis]

I've got the padded sling. Carries nice.

[cambo]

Are these sling snap type fittings any good?


I see a lot of the slings available have these type of fittings.

[gimp]

They're known as Hk hooks or mash hooks, I made a simple sling with them and a length of webbing and 2 slide buckles, they work fine if you have something to hook them through on your rifle

[Spanners]

I have a bunch of slings with QD, HKs, single, double point etc
Let me see if I can find them and will dig them out for some pics etc

Cheap cheaps

[Digit]

We have Promag 1 point and 2 point, Troy 1 point and 2 point slings arriving tomorrow.

[muzr257]

you will need the gas buster on your rifle Cambo - its very quiet but gassy!

[cambo]

Cheers for that Muzr......I'm sure you'll show me

[Beavis]

I don't like the H&K hooks cuz it's another thing to make noise while stalking. I find the QD swivels can be cunty at times when they move around. Best thing IMO is to have the sling looped around a solid mount on the handguard and on the stock itself or on a buttstock adapter if you run an A2. Down side is you loose the QD function if that matters to you. Doesn't to me.

[cambo]

Cheers for that Beavis. Those are good point to think about.
Not really worried about QD as once the sling is on, it'll probably stay there.
My R15 only has std QD mounts. 2 on the hand guard and 1 in the stock.
Looking at other ways to sling it as I quite like the side mounted idea.