Sling identification?

[finloq]

I am reaching here. 52.5"


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[Badger]

Sorry, I don't know what it is ...

Maybe someone else here does?

Regards,
Doug

[browningautorifle]

It looks like a cobble job to me.

[bearhunter]

Doesn't really look like a sling at all. More like a tie strap.

[smellie]

Really, I have no idea, but I will offer an observation or two.

It's not new and it wasn't made any time in the last 30 years.

There were a lot of P-'14s and P-'17s (okay, guys: US Rifle, caliber .30", M-1917) turned into more-or-less factory 'sporters', also SMLEs. These usually bear British commercial proofs and were sold here in the 1950s and 1960s; I have even seen a few Roses treated as such, also commercilly marked with british proofs. MOST of these had the sling swivels removed, the stock holes filled and swivel studs screwed into the woodwork fore and aft. But I have seen SOME with one swivel only removed, leaving one real 'issue' sling swivel and one stud for a hook such as on this critter. I think it might be off something such as that.

But I sure don't KNOW.
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[Brit plumber]

At 52.5" it could be my old belt, did it come with a pair of Levis?

[Patrick Chadwick]

There is a source showing plenty of service-issue slings

http://www.rollanet.org/~stacyw/index.html

but you won't find it there. The material is far too open-weave, certainly not sling webbing. It would stretch too much. I don't think it's a rifle sling.

[Mohawk]

Looks like an Iranian CETME sling. Rare animal if it is. Any Arabic looking markings on the metal? What is the back story???