Every hunter knows that your gun gets real heavy if you must carry it in your hands all day long and can be very cumbersome when walking difficult trials to your hunting location. The only solution is a sling.
A commercially made front sling mounting cap with a swivel installed in the end of it costs $25. It may seem worth it at first but with a simple hand drill and you can make your own for $5, here’s how.
Purchase a set of Swivel Bases for detachable swivels for $5 that includes a machine screw thread and a nut base. There are many manufacturers of these. Here is what I used.
Here’s my magazine tube forearm cap.
Drill a hole to fit the threaded shank of the sling base through the center of the nut.
My gun has a plastic spacer inside it. Drill a hole in the center of it to clear the nut and washer of the threaded shank.
Here’s the drilled cap and plastic insert
Assembled sling stud. You can now measure how much of the stud to cut off.
The assembled sling stud. I used blue loctite and staked the nut to prevent it from unscrewing.
Finished cap and sling mount. I used one washer under the sling mount to raise it up a little from the concave depression of this style cap. Otherwise you can not attach the sling to the stud mount.
Installed on the gun
Ready to go for $5.
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