Rifle sling?… especially when you're wearing a daypack

[RiverRunner]

What do you all like for a rifle sling?

Currently I've been using one of the Butler Creek neoprene ones with the rubber grippy texture on the underside. Pretty sure it was their most inexpensive model…. But I find it just won't stay put when i have on a small daypack.

I do also run a Kifaru gun bearer on my larger MR Nice Framed 3000cui pack… but sometimes I just don't need a daypack that starts off at 7 pound empty!! And while The GB is nice and works as it should… it's not for me all the time.

So with that out of the way…. I want a sling. I've noticed a few different offerings with varying price tags from the Butler Creek company.

Any recommends out there?

[RiverOtter]

I don't run one, but I know guys who like the Boonie slings. Probably not spelled right, but close enough for a Google search.

[mike31154]

Old school 2 piece leather.

[Surrey Boy]

I also use the same Butler Creek. I sling it from my right shoulder to my left hip and haven't had trouble, but I almost always carry my gun.

[landphil]

I've got a few of the Allen Cascade slings - they are cheap, well made and durable in my experience, and slip down my shoulder less than any other sling I've tried, including leather. They get along with my pack just fine.

[boxhitch]

A 60" piece of 1" webbing with a slide lock on one end, I guess it was sold as an 'utility strap', for the rare occasion I need a sling.
The strap has come in handy for other uses on occasion.
The shoulder strap of any pack can be modded with a plastic hook to hold a strap in place.

[Steeleco]

Boonie packer "Safari Sling" use it on all my rifles except to XLR

[264mag]

I use the limbsaver Kodak sling, doesn't slip and had a comfortable grip handle for your hand while over your shoulder.

[Wile E]

Have you considered slinging the rifle across your chest.
I use a padded Vickers BFG, known more in the black rifle crowd.
Rifle up front, always at the ready, pack on the back per norm. No interference between the two.

The sling is a simple 2 point, with a quick adjust. Great product.

[TreeStandMan]

I use the limbsaver Kodak sling, doesn't slip and had a comfortable grip handle for your hand while over your shoulder.

Seconded. The Limbsaver Kodiak is all that and durable to boot.

[albravo2]

I'm still looking for one I really like. I find the gunbearer loads one side of the pack and I get hot spots on my hip unless I do some serious counterbalancing.

I have a couple safari slings too, but don't love them.

More often than not I just use one of my rubber backed cheapo slings.

I'd like to hold my rifle more, but I find it difficult in uneven terrain and walking poles make it pretty much impossible.

[dakoda62]

I have been using the safari sling for the last couple of years, don't love it but don't hate it either.

[TreeStandMan]

Another option is a pack with a rifle scabbard. This season I used an Eberlestock H2 Gunrunner as a day pack. It's really comfortable, and keeps the weight of your rifle centered on your back. The trade-off is that it takes me perhaps an extra 10 seconds to shoulder my rifle, so depending on what I'm doing and where I am, I'll have the rifle in the scabbard or on a sling over my shoulder. A few times I also used it to carry two rifles at once: the .22 in the scabbard and the .300 on my shoulder.

[dino]

Boonie packer "Safari Sling" use it on all my rifles except to XLR

Listen to this guy.

[Chuck]

I've never been comfortable with a sling, always slipping off the shoulder, then having to switch shoulders. Put my head through and hang it across my back and run into tough brush or alders. Upside down for a while , then knock the barrel on something. Across the chest and tangled in the brush or jump something up and can't get the shot off. I've hunted for close to sixty years now and always cursed that rifle sling and the thick brush, binos on the chest and that noisy nylon backpack. But you know?.....I really can't visualize having it any other way.

[GOLDEN TOP SNIPER]

Safari Sling .. i love it . i just stated using it a few years ago . i use it all the time.. with hiking poles . with a bugle . with a cup of coffee in my hand .Hands free hunting . and quick draw time .

[todbartell]

for the last ten years I've been using the Uncle Mike's Mountain sling, simple and works for me. Quickly adjusts in length, has some grip stitched to the shoulder section, rides with a backpack well doesn't slip off.

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[twoSevenO]

cool stock. what kind is that?

It looks like a short action Rem model 7?

[todbartell]

McMillan mountain rifle pattern, 80% black 20% yellow

[Busterpayton54]

Sling stud locations are probably as, if not more important than the sling itself. I can not get a rifle to sit right with the typical either end of the stock configuration. I move my points closer together, and find it so handy. No need to even dismount the rifle. I have them set up so they can ride on my chest muzzle down, slide it under my arm pit to a muzzle up position.. When needed for action just slides under the arm pit and up to the shoulder without any screwing around.

[todbartell]

It looks like a short action Rem model 7?

SA Model 700 in 7mm SAUM

[RiverRunner]

Thanks for all the options everyone!

[Timberjack]

My trick is to use a thin sling, but slide it under my backpack shoulder strap idling a lot of walking or glassing. That way it doesn't slide off my shoulder at all.

TJ

[Skull Hunter]

I have one of those little round ball compass pins pinned onto the strap of my day packs. Slip the sling over the compass and it won't go anywhere. Compass is pretty unreliable, but could come in handy in a pinch.