I keep snapping off swivels lately. I'm either snagging branches or wrapping around my arm too rough while trying to get a moving target. Whats your vote on a good set?

PEI ROB... Do you use a sling as a shooting aid? I was just curious as to who and how many people do.I kinda view slings as worthless and somewhat a dangerious practice. I have had a bad experiance with slings on rifles and no longer use them unless I am carreing my rifle unloaded with one on... as in I am packing game out, climbing, packing equipment in. I always carry a nylon on/as a belt for my pants and rifle as I am a smallfry.
take care

Yes, if I'm standing or kneeling. In my experience if I don't have time to sit down then I usually don't have time to set up the sticks so I use the sling. I use slings more often than not especially when I'm carrying something in or out.

What brand of swivels are you using?

Last weekend I decided I'm not going to buy the locking kind any more, I realized I've had more problems with the locking kind breaking than I had with the normal types ever coming unlocked on their own.

I don't know what brands the others were since they are in the trash. I just put on a pair of Uncle Mike's quick detatchable super swivels #1403-2 and will put 'em to the test soon. They don't look any better but I'll find out.

Smallfry,

I'm curious as to how using a sling as a shooting aid can be dangerous. I suspect there are a lot of former and current military folks on this site who's teeth were cut on the proper use of the sling as a shooting aid. The Marine Corps prides itself and rightly so, as the leader in marksmanship training and their programs success is based partly around the correct use of the sling as a shooting aid.

You will not always be able to go prone and deploy your bipod, so, learning the correct use of the sling while gaining experience in other shooting positions besides prone might be a worthwhile goal for anyone wishing to improve their marksmanship skills. If learned correctly, you might actually appreciate the sling and perhaps employ it a little more often.

Malm

The comments about a shooting sling being "dangerous" are uninformed and absurd as Malmburg pointed out.

I find this thread hard to believe but some swivel must have been made wrong?

I have used detachable swivels for at least 40 years and snagged the barrel on limbs, fallen down with the rifle and used it as a shooting sling and the swivels are just fine. I would have to see it to believe it.

While we're on the subject, I am seeing more and more forend sling studs of the wood thread variety than I would care to. While this practice is good for business, I think it is a bit much for the manufaturers to use these in place of the "gold standard" machine threaded stud and nut.

As Mickey Mouse as this appears, I have actually only seen one of these pull out of a forend. Of course, for forends, I recommend changing these cheap wood thread types for the more solid and failsafe style of the machined stud/nut. Makes me wonder where the manufacturers will try and cut costs next...

Malm

I use Uncle Mikes and they seem to work for me.