Do People Fake Slings Also ?

[rayg]

Of course, there is a lot of ambiguity concerning sling application. An M1, Reising and Thompson sling are fairly interchangeable. And I may have spoken too soon, as the pictures don't show what I thought I saw - which would have been a greater distance between the snap and the post. This greater distance allowed for a keeper to be used on the snap end of the sling for the Reising application.

Boy I'm glad you said that because after you first said it was a Reising sling I kept looking at the photos for some thing else besides keeper distance, that didn't show in the photos, that would indicate it was a Reising sling. Ray
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[martin08]

As you had suspected, Ray, the sling's tab to post length is not great enough to allow for a keeper.

But the sling karma, compliments of imntxs564, came through nonetheless. And it looks mighty fine on the Reising. Many, many thanks sir!

[imntxs554]

Hi Frank, Try whatacountry.com. They currently have used original WW 2 era C-tip carbine slings in good condition for $52.00 each. These go pretty fast when they get them in stock. Regards, Jim

Thanks for the tip...I did and bought the last 3 C tips they had in Stock. They said they were coming out with more real soon. They were going through a cleaning process which I have no clue consists of, but I bet it steaming, washing and some type of freshening. I hope. I ended only using 1 and put the other 2 away.

[USGI]

Here's one they decided to put on eBay - bidding started at $0.99 - Bob

http://www.ebay.com/itm/252329195055