Tac Talk: Six Tactical Slings Reviewed by 6.5 Guys
Photo shows Precision Rifle Sling from Armageddon Gear.
A good sling is a vital accessory for a hunting or tactical rifle. Along with enabling over-the-shoulder carry, a good “tactical” sling will also provide support for shooting from hasty or improvised shooting positions. In fact, in many tactical/practical precision matches there will be at least one positional shooting stage or a stage where only a sling may be used for support (that means no bipod, no tripod, no sandbags, and no shooting sticks). The 6.5 Guys, Ed and Steve, recommend tactical slings that allow quick set-up and easy adjustment. The best slings allow shooters to quickly slip into them and then make rapid fine-tuning adjustments to build a stable shooting position.
Six Tactical/Practical Slings are Reviewed in this Video:
In this episode, Ed and Steve provide an overview and compare/contrast different designs and the functionality of six popular slings from these suppliers: Armageddon Gear, Tab Gear, Rifles Only, Hard Target Interdiction, Short Action Precision, and Accuracy International.
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Ignore the first 17 mins! of words and skip ahead to the field demonstration. There you will see why these slings are fundamentally flawed as methods to hold your rifle steady in various positions. The line of the sling in front of the hand in not linear; therefore any movement during breaking the shot will pull the shot off target.
If gone to a full bore sling on my AI to pull the stock into position and to get the bone support (over muscle support that these sling connections are tending towards) required for successful practical shooting.
Richard it is a decent review of the slings presented.
That being said, if you are looking to this video to entirely learn how to use a sling to shoot well with a rifle, it’s not here. Then again, they didn’t claim it was.
If a person wants to learn how to hold 1/2 minute with a sling, they better be talking to a dedicated sling shooter.
Same as anything else.
Nate, like most modern communications there is a lot of words but not much information in this presentation. I’ll defer to the 6.5 Guys if they read this to comment on what they really expect accuracy wise from sling use but the ergonomics of tactical rifles owes more to target rifle than most seem to give it credit for.