Sling ID

[Aragorn243]

I stopped in a couple of my local gun shops today and one had a bag of slings for sale for $10. It contained a Carcano sling which I wanted to replace the one on my cavalry carbine and an unknown sling that looks military.

It has a built in keeper on the end and a brass button connection on the other end. Total length is 48 inches, width is 7/8th inches, keeper is 1 3/8th inches long and riveted.

It has five teardrop cut holes on the bottom and two teardrop cut holes on the keeper half.

No markings that I can find.

Closest match I can find is a German K43 sling from the rifle sling page or it could be a late war K98 sling which eliminated the separate keeper. The keeper seems consistent with the German practice of the slot in the stock.









Included a third sling that looks to be brand new construction, is 7feet 5 1/2 inches long, 3/4 inch wide with a big brass, concave buckle with a fixed pin sticking straight up and out.

Closest I've found were a "Ching" sling and a Rhodesian scout rifle sling. It does not match either exactly as the Ching is two piece and the Rhodesian has a button end and this one does not. When I looked at it at the shop, I thought it was a cheap piece of junk but looking at it here at home, it's pretty decent quality, real leather, and it looks like it might be a repro sling of some sort.







In any case the Carcano sling was worth the $10 to me so these two are just a bonus. Knowing what they are would be nice.

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