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There are still a few people who don't realize that slings can be used for more than a nice place to have your initials embossed, they can also make a lousy off hand shooter, such as myself, into a pretty steady rifleman. Once you get beyond the experimental stage where you end up with one arm and one leg through the lower loop, and fall over is slow motion, a sling can make the difference between filling a home freezer with meat, and a steady diet of baloney sandwiches.

Brownells Quick-Set Latigo® Sling is probably one of the better slings around, and at a fair price for a piece of real 1 1/4" leather, complete with Super Swivels and swivel studs. There is no metal that will contact the surface of a rifle, and no claw hooks to adjust for length, just a tug on the front loop sets the length and it stays put once a length is selected. The complete setup retails for about $60, a 1" version without the hardware, approximately $10 less. I have these slings on several of my rifles and I've been using them to replace the very attractive, but virtually non-functional in shooting situations, carry slings.

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A quick note on some of the accessories I added to the gun. The Latigo sling is neat, it really is easy to use and makes for a very steady hold while bent into pretzel like positions for sling assisted shooting.

I'm very old, and it took several attempts to retrieve and revive me from the sitting position. Fortunately, the light at the end of a long dark tunnel I saw was only me getting too close to the ocular on the Burris compact scope, and not death brought on by loss of circulation. The Latigo can be purchased from Brownells for a modest price - nice piece of leather.