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Master Your Rifle Sling: Expert Tips and Tricks for Tactical Shooting
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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey everybody it's Matt Smith out here on the Range in beautiful uh muggy Spring weather in Texas here at revly Peak Ranch where our range is uh we're out here doing some shooting and we decided to put together a little informational video for you because I get a lot of questions about this uh guy right here the sling and so we're going to talk a little bit about the sling and its relationship uh to your rifle here I have my rifle slung in the in the right way a lot of times when I'm at the range I see people go to sling their weapons and it's probably because they don't have a lot of experience with rifles I understand that that's what we're here for we're here to teach you when I go to sling my rifle I see a lot of people um either put it on they'll neck sling it like this that that's fine or they tend to put their lead hand through and then try to figure the sling out and I see them struggling with it a lot if you want an easy way to figure out how to sling your rifle to get a great crossbody sling uh all you do is grab your rifle hold it in a safe way I like this cuz my finger is nowhere near the trigger I'm just holding it back here by the butt stock I hold it just like this I take my non-firing hand and hold it Palm up and I just scoop the sling up and out away from me like this making this triangle like this this way my barrels pointed in a safe Direction my hand hands not on the uh the trigger my fingers not on the trigger and I got this orientation and then I just pull this over my entire head like that so when I go to sling a rifle I do it just like that I just take the rifle pull the sling out to the side like this Palm up sling it over and then bring it B and that's a great crossbody sling that's cross body slinging a weapon you can neck sling a weapon and we do that sometimes especially if I have to switch the weapon from one shoulder to the other I don't want to have it cross body slung because if I go to do that I won't be able to get past right I wind up choking myself out with the sling so the first thing I'm going to do if I have to switch to my other hand to shoot rifle is immediately swim my arm through and just neck sling it that way I can push it out away from my body bring it to the other shoulder make the switch to the other side so this is a drill that we work commonly switching from one shoulder to the other to do that you're going to want to be neck slung a lot of times when I'm shooting shotgun I'll just be neck slung like this that's okay but if you spend the whole day like this gets pretty tiring on the neck plus once your cross body slung like this it holds the weapon to you a lot tighter so if you have to move and run and be Dynam with the weapon it's a little tighter to you and then we'll show you some tricks with the sling where cross body sling helps to secure the weapon to you but generally when I go to sling a weapon I'll I do it just like that I'll show you one more time when I go to take it off I do it just like that I'm I'm holding the weapon finger off the trigger I usually hold it by the for end here or by the butt stock and I just bring that butt stock over my head keeping the barrel point in a safe Direction and pull it out away from me and then I can manage the sling around me like this if I was going to hold it always when I'm holding the weapon especially I create every weapon as if it's loaded I'm treating this one as it's loaded I hold a pistol grip on my finger straight along the lower receiver here again one more time all I can do is hold the weapon like this Palm up scoop the sling bring it over my head now I got a good cross body sling so if that's not something that you're used to or you're just working into tactical rifle shooting a sling is to a rifle what a holster is to a pistol I wouldn't walk around with a rifle that doesn't have a sling you want to make sure that you have a sling for it because that's how you're going to hold it the body also when it comes to transition drills which we teach in our transition course if I have to transition from the rifle right it runs out of ammo or I get some kind of stoppage in the rifle if I have to transition that to my pistol I want to make sure that I got that sling and the sling is a lifesaver here because as I go to transition of the pistol what I'll do is I'll control the weapon down and I rotate the weapon as I bring it down when I do that you'll see the magazine Lins up on the inside of the sling and I control it down it actually locks to my body so it stays connected to my body right there as I go for my pistol I'll do that in real time for you so if I was shooting and for some reason had to transition my pistol I control that down go for the pistol draw the pistol and I can go to work with the pistol bring it back check my surroundings safely holster and then I can bring the weapon back up get it into operation so when you're working transitions like we here like we are here today it gets me thinking about the sling and common problems people have with mounting the sling and understanding what it's for and then how that relates to the transition and how it's designed to control P the weapon down and hold the weapon in a place where the barrel stays in a safe place allows me access to my pistol and I can use it so if you want to pack practice transition drills that's how we do it that's the that's the way to do it control it down old school they used to just drop the rifle I'm not a big fan of that a lot of times that just winds up hitting you in uncomfortable places so best thing to do control it down go for your pistol then you can make your draw and make your pickup shots for the for the pistol uh largely slings are are underutilized by people people don't realize just how useful a sling could be it's not just for holding your rifle here it's not just your rifle holster um you can use it when you have to shoot accurately at greater distances or you need to improve your grip on the weapon I'll show you how to do that here now the sling that I'm shooting is the sheep dog response uh quick adjusting sling that we provide it has a quick adjustment this little T Bar in the back if I reach back my hand and I drive that thing forward it takes all the slack out of the sling and if I want to put the slack back in the sling I quickly pull it back and it will loosen It Up all In a quick throw with a hand there are many on the market like that but this one's really fast and that's why I like it and so if I bring the weapon to bear and I have to bring it up to bear and I want to make a shot it's a really hard shot to just reach back pull that forward and that'll tighten that sling that pulls it tighter into my shoulder then if I really wanted to tighten it up I'm going to circle around the sling and back to the rifle like this that really pulls it into my shoulder hard right here so it's really built a frame between the rifle and my shoulder and it's pulled in tight to my hand I could loop around this way too and be up under the sling if I want to drive my hand forward or back either way all that's doing is taking more tension out of the sling pulling it tighter to my neck and deeper into the pocket of my shoulder so it's really deep here and I get a really stable platform to shoot from so if I got to shoot from standing over distance this makes it a much better shot for me and then when I want to loosen back up simply take my hand out quick pull back and the sling is nice and loose again nice and comfortable for me if I'm shooting between rounds if I'm shooting competitively or I got to reload or do something else it allows me to loosen it up and get to my gear hey in this day and age QD is the way to go like this is a quick detach sling by QD means quick detach this is a quick detach sling it's just a magpole quick detach and I have several mounting points some are better for others so this is nice when I'm slick as I am now I just have a shirt on under I'm out on the Range because I have it at a far forward point but if I was wearing more kit say I was wearing armor and I have a lot of Kit I can undo the quick detach little push pull it back to a farther back and that gives me more sling to get around my gear or if I need to if I needed next sling it it lets me sling it a little bit lower if I'm going to be doing a lot of round barrier stuff shoulder to shoulder it just gives me more throw with it the the reason I get to do that is because I have it set up with a quick detach I can just unhook it from one point and hook it to another like that also if it gets fouled on something and I really need to get off I can just hit the quick detach in the back pull it off and over and get it off if it's like pulling my ear protection off and people are shooting or if it really gets fouled on my kit somewhere where I can't see I can just quick detach it get the r get it safe get the rifle off and get working and figure out where it's hung up on my gear so that's just a quick couple tips for how to use your sling uh once you get good at using your sling it does improve your rifle shooting significantly does make the weapon more comfortable to carry it does give you many more options when you're shooting if you guys can think of anything else any other tips that you'd like to hear about leave them in the comments if there's some tip that I forgot to tell you while we're making this video uh go ahead and throw it in the comments let us know uh check out all our videos uh on our YouTube sheep dog response and then watch out for more instructional videos and more shooting videos and we'll see you on uh YouTube and on the Range [Music]
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