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I'm with Geo, GLS and a few others. I have/use a sling on a duck gun.

I'll send you his number in a PM.

I had him make a long and a short version the long one for a pistol grip and the shorter one for an English style grip.

I have come to like a sling when busting heavy cover while grouse hunting. I much prefer the gun over my shoulder.

Nice slings Joe.

Pete

You should look at the "boonie packer sling", it allows you to carry the gun in front "at the ready", but you need the swivel studs.

This is probably the wrong place for this, but if anyone needs a nice sling for a German gun with the small swivels send me a PM. I have a new one excess to my needs and an older well worn leather one I will send with it.

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Here's a Russian gun joke that wouldn't probably bring out a laugh here. A Russian hunter gets his hands on a hi-end Brit shotgun, and is surprized not to find sling swivels. He writes to the gunmaker asking why so, and gets the reply: "We expect that a person who is able to afford one of our guns can afford to hire a man to carry his gun". That's where you laugh.

Actually, slings make LOTS of sence when you have to cover a few miles with a load and knowing you have a very limited choice of getting a shot as you go.

To begin with, hunting here is normally an overnight affair - you go out say Saturday morning, hunt, spend the night around campfire, hunt Sunday, go home. So you're already loaded with a backpack to start with. Then, while Russia is a vast land, sweet spots offering good hunting are few and far between, and don't forget that personal cars came into everyone's reach only since 1991 (and were practically non-existant before 1960s). And even now the best places are the ones unaccessible by motor vehicles. Finally, in most traditional hunting styles you cover a few miles before you can get a shot, but when you can, you have the time to prepare. Take hares over a scent hound - first you walk until the hound kicks up the hare and gives bay, then you run to where you think the hare will pass, then you take the place and wait - at least 2/3 of time you just carry the shooting piece around, you're not shooting with it.

So, a shotgun without provisions for sling attachments would be extremely inconveniet for about 80% of the traditional hunting situations in Russia.

Now hinting is more and more often done in the "hi-tech" style, get in in cars, shoot, go home. For an overnight trip, get in in cars, sleep at a lodge, be delivered to your peg or blind by boat or ATV, shoot, reverse. But the role models date back to the days when the above was the norm.

HomelessJoe, can you send me his contact details as well, thanks in advance, best, Mike

Sort of goes with a duck gun....

I'm putting together an OU for pheasants. 2-triggers, customized stock, yada-yada. Still on the fence about adding the sling hardware. I like slings, but I also like not having them. (if that makes any sense)