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This is how I sling a duck gun for wading into a beaver swamp while carrying dekes. I slip it off as soon as I get the dekes put out and drop it in my pocket. No swivels to be aggravated with the rest of the time.



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I tried a sling a few times one season, never grew to like. It now sits in a box with all the other accessories that never clicked for like hand guards.

Amputating sling swivels on a European gun is like scratching your social security number into the receiver as far as I am concerned. Only thing worse is rasping off a nice cheekpiece because you didn't grow up with one on your Iver Johnson.

Interesting discussion.

Were I marching to battle, I might value a sling.

What is the point of discussions about balance and weight and handling if you're just going to put a strap on the thing and louse that all up?

It seems especially incongruous on a side by side gun... a repeating duck gun? Maybe, but only if forced to by the trudge to the blind when the damn thing comes off immediately.

As you wish. I wouldn't mind sling attachment points (sans any 'swivels') on a gun that was built that way. There are one or two here and they don't cause any grief.

Admittedly, I'm more shooter than hunter.

Sounds like a good idea for Rocketman - does mounting a sling change the gun's MOI? I don't think so, since it's mounted on two points, which seems to be equally remote from the points of balance, and it doesn't weith that much.

But then again, where I grew up, if a shotgun didn't have sling swivels it was taken to a gunsmith to be fitted with them, which might be coloring my judgment...

A slung gun probably works for many people and the type of hunting they do but it would not work for me walking up snipe. I have one gun that came fitted with swivels. The front one was attached to the bottom rib with two screws so removing it and unscrewing the rear stud from the stock was easy. Now I have a gun without any stud in the stock to catch on my shirt or anything else when I'm attempting to get off a quick shot at a bird that just launched like a rocket.