White slings for cadet's Enfield DP rifles

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I've been trying to find white slings for the army cadet's Enfields but I'm not having any luck finding any. I've tried Marstar and Tradeex and several non-sponsors with no luck. (Although Marstar did help me out with whitened pistol holsters and bayonet frogs, thanks guys!) Any suggestions or do you know of a shop or sponsor that might have five white Enfield slings? Alternatively, do you know of a white web material that is inexpensive and suitable for making slings?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
 
my experience is that the slings were just the regular slings painted white. Often repainted as the paint layers chipped off. Now the FN's had a special plastic sling that attached with velcro for parades.

I would suggest just getting some nice canvas slings and leaving them as is.
 
The local 'Cadet Office' will have an excrement fit when they see Cadets with pistol holsters or bayonet frogs.
Slings were definitely painted or blancoed. Scary how expensive they've become.
 
Just to state here. White web slings were made for Royal navy. Blue web slings were made for RAF and we all see the kahki green kind.
Painted ones were painted after production by those who had an unfilled requirement.
 
Hmm. I wonder.

1. Take the rivets off some pale slings from TradeEx, remove metal bits.
2. Soak fabric in bleach.
3. Rinse forever to make sure no bleach is left in the material.
4. Find a way to put the metal bits back on and make new rivets somehow.

Wnder if that would work...
 
The local 'Cadet Office' will have an excrement fit when they see Cadets with pistol holsters or bayonet frogs.
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Yes, yes, they will. However, the bayonets are permitted for army and sea cadets for certain occasions (air cadets are not permitted). I don't know about the pistol holsters. There is no explicit prohibition in the CATOs so based on the CF resources senior NCOs are permitted to carry pistol holsters. However, I'm willing to bet that in today's age of political correctness the pistol holsters are a definite no, but they were so cheap I figured I'd take some anyways...just in case there are some future changes...
 
The white plastic slings should be available through the system, comes in a role just like the belt materiel and you cut to length.
 
Nug said:
The white plastic slings should be available through the system, comes in a role just like the belt materiel and you cut to length.
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Ditto, but this confuses the belt material with the sling material. Belts come out of QM on a long roll. Cut to length, slide on the keepers and buckle-halves. The slings have pre-glued Velcro and seem to be sized for C7 rifles.

FWIW, the C8 Carbine drill looks a lot like 9mm SMG drill, but I don't know if there are short slings for them.
 
"...bayonets are permitted for army and sea cadets for certain occasions..." They must have changed things again. When I commanded an Army Cadet Corps, 30 years ago, bayonets were strictly forbidden(not without good reason too. Kid on parade without having eaten dinner fell on his chin one night. Stiches and big money dental work. Didn't bite his tongue though. Militia plugs were poking each other with bayonets, regularly too.) So was any firearm other than C1A1's, Lee-Enfields and Anshutz target rifles. A sword for the Senior Cadet was ok.
 
It's better to ask forgiveness than permission, do it anyway what will they do, take away your birthday?


shootemup said:
Yes, yes, they will. However, the bayonets are permitted for army and sea cadets for certain occasions (air cadets are not permitted). I don't know about the pistol holsters. There is no explicit prohibition in the CATOs so based on the CF resources senior NCOs are permitted to carry pistol holsters. However, I'm willing to bet that in today's age of political correctness the pistol holsters are a definite no, but they were so cheap I figured I'd take some anyways...just in case there are some future changes...
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