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#10MinuteTalk - Carbine Slings – Be More Effective

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Carbine slings - accessory or required equipment? Instructor Pete from Vortex EDGE makes his point on two-point slings, and why you need one on your Carbine. If you haven’t been using one, you will after this podcast. There’s just no down-side.

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0:00.0

What is up everybody? We have 10 minutes to talk about carbene slings. Now I've got Jim

0:08.5

to my right now, Jim. That is the shoulder thingy that goes up. Yeah, I guess you could kind

0:13.4

of say that. So across from us to help us dissect this incredibly useful, I guess, accessory

0:21.4

for your carbene, your AR. We've got Pete from Vortex Edge. Pete, we've got one AR. It's

0:26.8

got a sling on it. Now there's a couple different styles. We got one point. We got two point.

0:30.6

We got three point. I think we've got three models. They're all two points on the table

0:37.2

on front of us. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see them. That's kind of what you

0:40.1

guys recommend, huh? Yeah. So this is a two point adjustable sling. Nothing super fancy.

0:45.9

You know, back when I started in the army in 1998, we had this traditional parade style

0:50.5

sling made of this material with just a tri-glade on each end. Yet you ran it through the

0:56.3

swing slivables on your rifle and you'll literally it was designed to carry over your

0:59.6

shoulder in a parade. Wasn't very practical. So did you ever, did you get your parade

1:04.7

wave down? Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. I was, I was pretty good DNC drill and ceremony.

1:09.7

I was pretty good at that. Unfortunately, that was before the war on terror and DNC didn't

1:14.7

really matter then. And so we needed slings that were actually more practical. So the evolution

1:19.7

started, if you look at this guy, there were slings before this, but this, this was the one

1:24.5

that kind of started the two point adjustable sling rage. And if you look at this, you recognize

1:30.0

what this piece is right here. This is actually a shoulder strap from a military rucksack right

1:35.8

here. This is the adjust on your shoulder straps and you loosen this up and that would adjust

1:42.0

out on your, your rucksack. You could take your rucksack on and off. Somebody was like, hey,

1:45.8

let me run webbing through that and now I have a sling that I can adjust to any length that I need.

1:50.8

Oh, nice. Yeah. Very cool. So what's really cool about these is, you know, there's never a proper

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