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#10MinuteTalk - Hunting Rifle Slings – Accessory or Necessity?

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Optics, Sports, Vortex Nation Podcast, Long Range, Rifle, Scope, Gun, Vortex, Binoculars, Riflescope, Shooting, Vortex Nation, Hunting, Wilderness, Vortex Optics

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The team takes 10-ish minutes to chat hunting rifle slings – traditional, modern, and pack-integrated systems. A sling can be one of the best additions to any big game rifle setup. Slings keep your hands free when navigating difficult terrain, hold the rifle to your back while riding a bike on logging road systems, keep your barrel pointed in a safe direction around others, provide stability for offhand shots and more. If you can’t tell, we sling their praises.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, everybody? There is more than one way to sling or carry your rifle when you're

0:08.1

in the woods out hunting. We've got a lot of them right here in front of us. So if you're

0:11.1

watching on YouTube, you can see those to help me unpack this great topic. I've got

0:16.6

Eric Barber to my right, the Paul Neese across from me. And you know what? I'm going to start

0:21.8

with me. I think that's the polite thing to do. Start with the guests. Start with yourself.

0:25.9

There you go. One of those reasons. Right here, the way I'm carrying this rifle, this is a

0:30.7

Kaffiru pack. It's an older timber line too. Actually really good pack. I've enjoyed it for a lot

0:35.1

of years. This is the Kaffiru gun bearer to go along with it. Carries the gun very comfortably.

0:41.2

Carries it hands-free. If you want to use it with trekking poles, things of that nature kind of

0:46.2

clips into the webbing on the waist belt here. Easy deployment, very rapid deployment. But before I

0:51.8

show how fast it is, the one kind of check-minus, it's not giant. But I love this one. I'm

0:58.6

hunting by myself. It does tip the barrel, at least the way the way I ran it. Maybe there's

1:04.3

a better way to do it. There probably is. But a little bit forward. And so when I'm hunting

1:08.7

with other people, I'm always very cognizant and worried that I'm going to flag somebody

1:13.0

with the muzzle. I always carry it. If I have it in here and I'm hunting with other people,

1:17.6

the gun is unloaded. You know, I don't have one in the pipe, but I still don't like it.

1:21.7

You know, if you potentially, you know, so that would be the one drawback. But as far as

1:25.4

deployment, very fast. And actually, I'll say this. If I'm hunting by myself, I use this to my

1:30.8

advantage. Because I'm actually able to, when I glass, I can cut my arm over the rifle scope

1:36.2

right here, brace my binoculars right here. And it helps me stabilize my binoculars. So there's

1:41.8

a plus there, too, if you are hunting by yourself. For folks following along, it is. The gun is unloaded,

1:47.1

bolt is open. We got a muzzle flag in. Yes, I had it in the chamber. It kept falling out.

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