1943 date M1907 sling PREMIUM JT&L 1943 blackened brass ftgs. (1)repro

Description: Don't stock a lot of these. Found a couple more. Now, these are on hand for immediate delivery. 1943 blackened brass hooks. NEVER seen before in quality repros!! Sturdy 10-11 ounce pressed, selected hides, drum dyed. NOTE: If actually USED, these will be more resilient if treated with neatsfoot or other oil-based conditioner. Slings were almost always older than the rifles to which they were fitted. Slings were NOT issued at the factories, and were produced in HUGE numbers. Genuine vintage specimens go for $100-250, and are often so dried out as to be unsafe for use actually carrying or "shooter forearm wrapping" a rifle. Very highest quality replicas, fully to optimum regulation, drum-dyed, select hide leather Model of 1907 full length and weight straps. In 1941, the government regulation on fittings for rifle straps was changed to reflect that new ones had to utilize blackened steel, rather than brass, hooks and rings. Civilian contractors were given substantial time to change over. Brass hooks were almost always blackened, and these will wear to natural brass, which is a nice "worn in" look. Most manufacturers were using 9-10 ounce hides by this time. This JT&L 1943 marked unit is a replica of the production until the changeover to steel hook material, in fact this is the type with which World War II was primarily fought, with the brass fittings MOSTLY as they looked after the blackening coat wore off. Looks right, feels right, these even SMELL right. 1 1/4" wide, leather just over 1/8", long strap 46-48", short strap 24-26", hefty stock all the way around. These should STILL be neatsfooted or conditioned before use, but this type will greatly outlast the lighter weight commercials and looks correct. Neatsfoot or other leather conditioner increases flexibility and moisture resistance. Many of these treated heavily with neatsfoot's oil from World War I are still quite usable. Rifles and other items depicted in the comparison and rigging shots are NOT included!!! One sling per auction, and NOTHING ELSE IS INCLUDED. Photos are for rigging and historical context and so on. These are the very best of the M1907 reproductions, and many precision shooters buy these because they are so sturdy. The select hides look pretty good, even better after conditioning. ONE SLING PER AUCTION. No two ways about it: The web sling was very much in the minority in fighting units until the very end of World War II, and was still a minority item in the field then. The M1907 is by FAR the definitive U.S. rifle sling of World War II, especially among combat infantry. Generic details: 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 AUCTION!!--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.

Price: 26.95 USD

Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin

End Time: 2024-11-16T11:00:01.000Z

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