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Unconventional Sling Materials
Aug 19th, 2017 at 12:39pm
 
Hi everybody!

I wonder if anybody here has made a sling from "unconventional" materials -- as in not the stuff that is commonly used (like leather, fibers, paracord, seatbelt, etc).

As an experiment, I made a pebble sling about 24" long from paper towels. It's just some reverse twisted strips knotted into a simple sling. It works suprisingly well! It's probably not going to be very durable, and the release isn't all that clean because of how bulky the knots on the end of the pouch are, but it isn't bad.

What unconventional materials have you made slings from?
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Re: Unconventional Sling Materials
Reply #1 - Aug 23rd, 2017 at 3:08pm
 
I've spun up some plarn (plastic yarn) from strips of plastic bags. Twisted the plarn into 2 ply plarn line and then used the line to braid a pouch. It worked quite well; but is very slippery. I have to be very careful with ammo placement as it was a flat braid and the ammo wants to slide out  Embarrassed. It would be fine had I braided a cupped pouch.  Wink
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Re: Unconventional Sling Materials
Reply #2 - Aug 25th, 2017 at 7:53pm
 
I have made slings out of twisted braided grass before.
the paper towels are awesome
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Reply #3 - Aug 31st, 2017 at 2:43pm
 
   Once I forgot my sling while walking the Huskies so I made an Appu Sling out of that yellow police tape that they use to block off an area.  It worked for the day but eventually stretched too  much to be useful.  Another time when I forgot my sling I ripped the electrical cord out an old junk TV someone had left as litter and made one from that.  It worked OK. Also I once made a pj type sling out of leather lace.  It looked very pretty but was too elastic to be safe or useful.
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