Can someone tell by this pic. if this is a ww2 sling ? don't look right too me. Thanks.
Can someone tell by this pic. if this is a ww2 sling ? don't look right too me. Thanks.
Last edited by lboos; 03-11-2021 at 04:30 PM.
I'd call it a later "WWII type" but not an original. - Bob
Does it come with the carbine? Nice rifle!
Reproduction sling and oiler combo.
lboos,
Didn't you pick up a GI C Tip a while back from that place I told you about? Compare them, unless you don't have access to this carbine.
Seems some of these have a mark on the inside of the Keeper / Buckle / Slide ? Maybe a circled single digit or small symbol ??
I bought about 10 - 12 of this type for about $25 at a gun show. Have some left tucked away that I give to Commercial carbine owners at our range. Or rig up for the local kids BB guns. They make pretty good dog leashes for smaller dogs.
Charlie-Painter777
A Country Has No Greater Responsibility Than To Care For Those Who Served...
Hi Painter, sorry it took me so long to get back. I do have the two C tip ww2 slings you helped me get, but I was not sure of the D tip sling on the gun in the pic. it just look's too new to be a ww2 sling, I got this pic. from here and of the three slings, the D tip on the far right look's a lot like the one on the gun in the pic. and I thought it might be a fake ww2 sling, or it just might my bad vision. any thoughts on the sling on the carbine in the pic ? ...the barrel is marked 2-44 ?, would that sling be correct for the gun ?
Last edited by lboos; 03-13-2021 at 05:06 PM.
Sling on the carbine is what Bruce M said, A Reproduction.
Never in any era was it used by GI's.
Real D tips slings came in to use Post WWII.
IIRC, the picture you added of the 3 slings, the one in the middle with the TRW snap, I believe was very late Vietnam... but I'd need to double check on TRW hardware.
Charlie-Painter777
A Country Has No Greater Responsibility Than To Care For Those Who Served...
Speaking of slings, I picked up a somewhat worn original C-tip at OGCA yesterday. For a whooping $25! I don't think he realized just how much he could have gotten for that old sling! Got a nice Utica M4 bayonet with a modified M8 scabbard for $85 too.
When they tell you to behave, they always forget to specify whether to behave well or badly!
Here's pics of a sling that sold on eBay for $100 in 2012. A real sling with a fake marking??? What time period? - Bob
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