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When I had it renovated, I thought about removing the sling swivels and cheekpiece, but have come to like it the way it is. There comes a time when a sling is a blessing...Geo
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When I had it renovated, I thought about removing the sling swivels and cheekpiece, but have come to like it the way it is. There comes a time when a sling is a blessing...Geo Well said, for example on a muddy Field, when your dog brings a bird still alive...But of course you can kill it with your teeth, if you have no sling..;-) Gunwolf
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When I had it renovated, I thought about removing the sling swivels and cheekpiece, but have come to like it the way it is. There comes a time when a sling is a blessing...Geo True, though I have never actually attached a sling to the swivels. 
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When I had it renovated, I thought about removing the sling swivels and cheekpiece, but have come to like it the way it is. There comes a time when a sling is a blessing...Geo True, though I have never actually attached a sling to the swivels. Our Slovenian friend explained how tight chokes go well with sling swivels. Americans are fond of rough shooting so other than Anglophile style I do not see why Americans do not like sling swivels. Naturally retractable ones like the French used to offer were the best.
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Well Jager, the French retractable slings were actually horrible; too slender, rotted in a flash when rolled up wet inside the stock, too hard to fasten/unfasten...Geo
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we sling our rifles, but not our shotguns...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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I have absolutely given up the trouble and expense of trying to hide the fact that my shotguns originally had swivels. If you have a German shotgun, you aren't hiding anything by plugging holes and welding up swivel bases. I am going out to the goose pit tomorrow morning and, at 70, I would not think of taking a gun without swivels and a sling. In fact, everything I will carry to the field will have a sling or shoulder strap, gun, bag, and whatever.
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Eightbore you are right!
By the way, the Brits carry their guns always in a gun slip on their shoulders to the driven hunts and they don't need any sling because only standing there and shooting while birds still alive will looked after by their gamekeepers and dogs..! So they do not need their hands (or teeth) ;-)
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In my opinion, anyone that hunts without a sling is handicapping himself. Use one of the German "quick shortening" slings, and it won't hang down.
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