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Cooey sling
- Thread starter gerard488
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There are instructions both in the manual for "Rifle" and in "Shoot to Live!" regarding the attchment, tensioning and use of the Sling.
Any Instructor worth his salt would have been most rigorous regarding Sling use. Proper use of the Sling would have made his men into better shots and would have done it faster. Both are points of consideration when you have a War going on and a million men to train.
Standard Sling of the period would have been the Pattern 37 web sling. If those were in short supply, they would have had to make-do with old Pattern 1908s, which were very similar although the weave of the webbing differed slightly from the later type.
You can still find the correct Pattern 37 at gun shows for $10, sometimes less. Instructions for fitting it to the rifle are found in "Rifle - 1942", the Government manual.
Any Instructor worth his salt would have been most rigorous regarding Sling use. Proper use of the Sling would have made his men into better shots and would have done it faster. Both are points of consideration when you have a War going on and a million men to train.
Standard Sling of the period would have been the Pattern 37 web sling. If those were in short supply, they would have had to make-do with old Pattern 1908s, which were very similar although the weave of the webbing differed slightly from the later type.
You can still find the correct Pattern 37 at gun shows for $10, sometimes less. Instructions for fitting it to the rifle are found in "Rifle - 1942", the Government manual.
