video of how to use a sling

[Kodo2003]

Looks like a good educational video

G.I. Web Sling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRPfj-6bRZM

1907 Leather Sling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaRCFpH27-w

Kodo2003

[Dirty Bill]

Why does he use the big glove? Is it for protection from a heated barrel? Very informative. 

[Nickle]

That glove is a competition thing. Reduces the pulse's variation on the target. Not used in the field, only on the range, and only the serious Hghpwer and Smallbore guys.

[B9]

Decent videos.
Somewhat poor rifle/muzzle control in the GI one while slinging up and while shooting looks like it is over his bicep.

[ashrn03]

The mitt/glove is needed by competitive shooters in NRA high-power and Smallbore because they sling up really tight.  If your hand isn't asleep, it's generally considered not tight enough.  With the sling that tight, the glove is needed to protect your hand.  Since we use a snug sling at AS (and in realistic field situations), as Nickle said: the glove isn't needed. 

[Trin Tragula]

Excellent - thanks for posting....

[ken grant]

 At Boot Camp #1, I started off with nothing on my support hand.
By the second day,I had to use a batter's glove on my support hand and by the end of the day my hand hurt again. That night I taped a little padding on the back of the glove where the sling rubbed. That worked for the rest of the week.

[Colorado Pete]

Another reason for the padded glove is that in prone and possibly sitting, your support hand is jammed up against the forward sling swivel, where you can relax your hand and not have to grip the fore-end. If you are shooting .30 cal there's a lot of recoil force driving that sling swivel back against your hand. No fun for 10 or 20 shots.

[AFTERMATH]

So that's where that odd callous on the side of my hand came from.
I guess I felt it cutting into my hand, just didn't pay it any mind.

On another note:  I assume the gentleman in this video has allready been contacted about Appleseed, and is eagerly preparint for the next shoot?

[Old Dog]

Here's another one with the leather sling.  Its set up different than the AR video and is on an M1 Garand to boot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3i2O1igX78

[Buckshot]

The mitt/glove is needed by competitive shooters in NRA high-power and Smallbore because they sling up really tight.  If your hand isn't asleep, it's generally considered not tight enough.  With the sling that tight, the glove is needed to protect your hand.  Since we use a snug sling at AS (and in realistic field situations), as Nickle said: the glove isn't needed. 

The glove or mitt actually protects the hand when it it wedged into the handstop on the competition rifle.  Whether it is a bolt action with a forend rail or a "space gun" with an aluminum slotted handguard with an adjustable handstop.

Except if you have "very long" arms, you will never put the kind of pressure on the foreend swivel of a service rifle that a match shooter will exert when slinging up with a stiff rifle and handstop on a competition rifle.

As has been said, it can also keep your pulse out of your rifle, which you may not actually feel, being slug up so tight that you often literally can't feel your left arm or hand.

In the past, we actually said "if you can still feel your hand, your sling is not tight enough!" while training smallbore and high power shooters.

Buckshot

[voortrekker]

Considering practical field use, this glove combination works very well for me shooting a M1A.

Basic leather work gloves with GI wool liners.

They aren't highpower match mittens, but they work very well shooting .30 cals slung up.

Plus this glove combo will serve very well outside the realm of riflery in protecting one's hands, barbedwire, handling wood, heavy equipement, etc.

I've found they work well keeping my hands warm at 32 F' no wind, but past that you need some better gloves to keep the phalanges(fingers) comfortable.








I've been using them since 2006 and they work very well keeping my left hand slung up and comfortable whether summer or winter.



brett out

[Colorado Pete]

For those who rifle hunt big game and like the support of a loop sling, but would like to loop-up faster in the field, do some research on the Ching sling. It gives the support of the loop sling with the speedy acquisition of the hasty sling. Great idea for a hunting rifle, you can be looped-up as you get into position.