Duuuuuh....me confewsed.Ranch Dog wrote:I had ordered a saddle ring for the rifle but it hasn't come in so with no way to sling the rifle, it must stay home. I also do not what to rush the saddle ringing of this carbine, need to take it slow. May be next year.
I use the inexpensive Quake "Claw" rifle sling with the conventional drill-in eye post swivel hardware on the butt stock end and the large, soft but secure nylon choker loop on the muzzle end which is metal and noise free & never falls off the gun.
No metal C-clamps to crush the mag tube & create feeding problems, or interfere with barrel harmonics if attached to the barrel and the large nylon choker loops work great on my takedown model rifles where the mag tube/barrel assembly must be free of permanent attachments in order to rotate in relation to the receiver. No noisy saddle loop to rattle and scare game or catch on brush. No hard to get & expensive parts to order & wait for. No welding or drilling to install a saddle ring which is needless extra weight on the gun.
All that is involved is drilling 1 small pilot hole in the butt stock wood.
A trip to WalMart or Cabelas, $25 and 5 minutes work could have this slilent, very simple, non-interfering & non-intrusive sling on the gun.
What could possibly be wrong with this very simple sling??........I know ! ..... not complicated enough.
For some it seems a complicated process is more important than the end result.......I'm an engineer who has always believed that cheap, Seasame Street Simple, effective, user friendly & easily repeatable solutions using "dumbed-down", readily available infrastructure were the best solutions.