Really dumb question on slings

[Whitey_Vic]

Hi guys this is really a dumb question, is there a right or wrong way to attach a 1915 Lithgow no1 mk3 rifle sling. I have had one for years but never used at as I was missing a Butt swivel (thanks Cinders) Now I have one coming I can get rid of the bit of wire I was using and attach the proper sling for the rifle. But then starting thinking is there a right or wrong way.

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[Brit plumber]

Buckles to the inside.

[Thunderbox]

Buckles to the inside, and the flat of the rivets against the woodwork.

[5thBatt]

Or if a leather sling, like this.

[Whitey_Vic]

Fantastic thanks guys !

[jona]

The "proper" way to mount the sling is how the RSM tells you to do it. Have heard the both brass in and brass out to be correct. So find an old RSM and ask him how he wants it done.

[gew8805]

RSM always says brass inside, there is no other way. Check period photographs for the facts.

[Peter Laidler]

Ah......., but GEW..... As one who was serving during the time of '37 pattern webbing, I remember brassoing all of that crap. Then later, reading the equipment handbook that distinctly ststed that the brasswork should be left to dull naturally of it's own accord. Unfortunately all of the RSM's that I had the unfortunately experience of meeting told me to get it polished until it gleamed!

I recall one reminding me that '[I]........ Mr Laidler sir, you might be an Officer but you still do as the RSM says. In fact that rule applies until you leave the Battalion as a FULL Colonel[/I]!'

[gew8805]

You are, of course correct Peter. Even if he was "wrong", the RSM was right.

The statement made in my post above was based on having never noticed a sling with the buckles installed on the outside of a sling in hundreds, if not thousands of photographs taken during the period of use for the Sling, rifle, web, G.S. from 1900 through Desert Storm and maybe later. Is it possible I missed some or just didn't look hard enough? Maybe......

[Peter Laidler]

You're right of course. The buckles should be on the INSIDE.