A cousin passed away some time back and in his collection of rifle bits-and-pieces was a leather sling that I'd like to know about.

The sling is brown leather and it has the classic double adjusting hooks that I'm used to seeing on U.S. military rifles but this sling is much narrower .... probably about half the width of the U.S. slings.

The most curious feature of the sling is the method of attaching to the rifle. On each end of the sling is a quite small (perhaps only a half-inch on-a-side), neatly made, metal 'box' that has, on one side, a spring-loaded piece that can be pushed-out and rotated. With that piece rotated you can then slide the exposed metal 'pin' though a post (with a hole in it) on the rifle and then the spring-loaded piece on the sling is rotated back and allowed to close-the-square, thus securing that end of the sling to the rifle.

I suspect that this sling was a standard with some series of rifles but have no idea who's ... it could be European or something from the former Sovieticon bloc.

Thoughts ?

- Paul
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