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DOWNRIGHT PRETTY! NOTE REGULATION ELLIPTICAL HOOK DETENTS.
STRAIGHT HOOKS, PLEASE SEE THE DETAILS AND COMPARISON SHOTS IN THE IMAGE ARRAY.
THIS IS A MAGNIFICENT VERSION OF THE THE M1907 IN ITS TRADITIONAL FORM, HIGHEST QUALITY PREMIUM HEAVY DUTY DRUM-DYED LEATHER, MARKED \"ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL 1918\". Straight hooks, we have these with CC/GI hooks, but at ABOUT twice the price.
1917 and 1918 slings were still being issued during WW2 and even during the Korean War.
Downright pretty!This replicates a WWI \"revised\" brass fitted sling, now flush riveted like the late war originals, and this reflects our best leather and finest tanned and treated strap material.Feel free to check my response here, on the CMP site, on GUNBOARDS, or on Gunbroker. I\'ve been at this for a long time.This general style was dominant in actual combat units up to the very end of the WW2, despite the web strap having been introduced in \'42. And the brass hooks were still being issued well into the later Korean war, with decreasing frequency. Take a look at the page illustrated where a rifle, brand new in 1942, was graced with a 1918-dated strap 24 years EARLIER.STRAPS WERE VIRTUALLY OLDER THAN THE FIRST RIFLES TO WHICH THEY WERE FITTED.Stitched keepers, NOT riveted. Correct rivets on the hooks. WE ARE NOW USING FLUSH RIVETING PROCESSES.
ONE SLING PER sale. NO, the rifles, dogs, Marines, soldiers, palm trees, land, and so on are not \"included\", nor are the various backgrounds. That\'s all for illustrative purposes to demonstrate use, including the \"rigging display\". sale is for a single leather sling strap 1 1/4\", nothing else.Full regulation length, 46-51\" on the long strap, appx. 24-26\" on the short \"D ring\" strap.Included are some WW2 shots showing this general type in use and issue right up to the end of the war.With applications of oil and/or conditioner, these acquire a darker, deeper tone. Such treatment is recommended for those to actually be used. During WWI neatsfoot was REQUIRED in the trenches.GENERAL INFO, MODEL OF 1907 AND ITS USE:
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL STILL EXISTS. THEY PRODUCED THIS TYPE FOR BOTH WORLD WARS.
WE CAN LIGHTLY BURNISH THE BRASS. SOME WERE ALSO LACQUER DIPPED. Neither finish lasted very long, which is why so many collectors and shooters presumed they never bore any finish at all.The U.S. Sling, Rifle Model of 1907, featured two sturdy hooks ( called \"frogs\" in some parts of the world ), was comprised 10 or 12 ounce leather strapping, 1 1/4\", in two belting components: the longer by regulation ran 46-48.5\". The shorter, bearing the \"D\" ring, was typically 24\" to 26.5\". Length was adjustable, and they were rigged standard with the hook \"flats\" facing away from the butt stock. However, originally, there were various other uses and applications for the slings, and they were often rigged \"upside-down\" by users who wanted the sharp hook ends AWAY from their arms while shooting.
These were used on the last of the U.S. Krag rifles at the end of their duty, all \'03 bolt action variants, the M1917 \"Enfield\" U.S. Rifle, the M1 Garand, even shotguns, and pretty much any rifle on military duty which could/would accept a 1 1/4\" sling. Rumors to the contrary, if properly conditioned, they held up better to most climate and moisture conditions than the later web. They were slowly replaced by web slings primarily because the web units were much cheaper. Until well into 1942, metal fittings were brass, originally \"blackened\" ( that finish wore off almost immediately), after 1942 almost entirely blackened steel. The blacking could be phosphate, blue, or various paints or lacquers. It was adjustable for use as a shooting brace/stabilizer with a \"sling wrap\", and because it was so sturdy to use in that incarnation, many additional nations utilized them. Slings were issue at the unit level, and during World War II, generally, slings were OLDER than the rifles upon which they were first mounted. Part of the reason for this was the huge post-World War I surplus in military inventories, and indeed, many 1917 and 1918 dated slings remained in military inventories LONG AFTER WORLD WAR II!!!
These are all \"to regulation\", with the correct riveting and stitching in the appropriate places, using the newer, easier to adjust hooks. Original hooks seem to have been almost all of the \"continuously curved\" style, not popular in civilian use because of difficulty of adjust them until holes are somewhat fatigued. The holes were generally elliptical, and numbers varied.The version--NOT PART OF THIS sale!!--for the Browning Automatic Rifle used a third hook, and was called the \"Model of 1907, Modified\", albeit in service usually called simply the \"B.A.R. sling\" or the \"1918\", neither of which is CORRECT, but which are more descriptive for ordinary folks. Some versions of the B.A.R. sling were longer in gross length, and the extant theory is that these were intended for the original \"walking fire\" concept, albeit no hard documentation exists to absolutely verify that.
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NOTE: THE HOOKS ON THE VERY NEWEST OF THESE, WHILE RATHER LIGHTWEIGHT, ARE CONTINUOUSLY CURVED AND SIMILAR TO G.I., THEREFORE MORE STABLE BY FAR THAN THE OLDER VERSIONS. SEE THE IMAGES
