Unless you have something against swivels, a standard shotgun sling attached to fixed swivels (strictly IMO) look fine on Continental doubles. Regularly found on doubles from France, Germany, and Sweden in particular. But I'd probably hesitate about putting swivels on a Brit gun. They don't seem to have a sling tradition. The first classic sxs I ever owned was a between the wars Sauer 16ga. Came with swivels. I found a European sling and left it attached for open country hunting (pheasants and quail with that gun.) It took me very little time to discover that the sling got in the way hunting grouse and woodcock. But simple enough to remove it. And the swivels didn't get in the way.
American doubles? We don't have the tradition, and on a particularly valuable American gun, I probably wouldn't attach fixed swivels. If it's a basic American sxs and I liked the idea of a sling, I don't think I'd necessarily hesitate.
Last edited by L. Brown; 04/30/23 07:57 AM.
