Video Transcript
So adjustable two-point slings are extremely common on the market and they've been around for decades. This is our take on the two-point adjustable sling. There are a couple things about it that make it a little bit different than a few of the other slangs on the market, but ultimately, this is a sling for your rifle. There's nothing super revolutionary or crazy about this product right here. But when you purchase this, you get it in this bag, and every single sling includes, and this is one of those little differences that we have compared to some other companies out there, you get two sling keepers, and these are going to be used on your firearm or be used for anything to help keep your sling attached to the firearm and stowed to the firearm in a way that allows you to still shoot the rifle and use the rifle, but we'll get into these a little bit later.
This sling has adjustment on this side here on one end for how exactly where you want the pad positioned on your shoulder, and then most importantly, the main adjustment is going to be here where the adjuster is that allows you to tighten the sling or loosen the sling. We ship the sling with a lot of length, so if you decide to run this sling on some sort of long gun, some precision gun from end to end, from stock all the way to the front of the rail, there is enough sling there that you could still have good, as far as it's loose enough that you could still shoot with the rifle, you can then tighten it to have it tight to the body, but for most rifles, AR15's, 11.5s, little short guns, you're probably going to be adjusting the sling a little bit smaller, and then you're gonna do something with the excess material, and we'll get into that.
This sling doesn't come with any hardware, all you have is a tri-glide on each end, so this is going to be how you attach the rifle to something and allow it to stay attached to that and not fail, but I'm gonna show you guys how to attach this immediately out of the box on a standard AR15, standard carbine, without purchasing any other sort of accessories, no QD swivels, nothing like that. So I have a BCM right here, it has the BCM stock, most stocks on the market will have a slot in the rear or something like that, which is meant for a rifle sling. So in this case, I'm going to take the end that does not have the adjustment, because I'm gonna do all the adjustment with my support hand, and I'm gonna thread this through the slot, back into the tri-glide, through the tri-glide, and this is a very important part right here, it is vital that you double back through the tri-glide, and the reason for that is, if your sling gets wet, you're running around and you're doing stuff, it's sweaty, covered in blood and guts, and you're taking pressure off of the sling, it can slide and loosen and then potentially come disconnected from the rifle, and then your rifle's gonna hit the deck, and you obviously don't want that to happen, so what you do is you take the tail and you just run it back through on the tri-glide, and this is essentially a no-fail solution, it is stuck to the stock, the only way this is going to fail is if the stock somehow breaks, this somehow tears or breaks, or the stock just comes flying off of the buffer tube.
On this particular rifle, since this is a modern weapon, it's not an FSP Colt or something, I don't have specific little areas to mount a sling to, but what I can do is I can utilize the M-LOCK, so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to move my SureFire out of the way, swoop through, go onto the tri-glide, just like I did back there on the other one, swim through, and for security, double back through the tri-glide.
My user preference that's going to occur here, how tight do you want the rifle when it's in its tightest form, with the little adjuster pulled all the way to the front, versus how loose do you want it when it's all the way to the rear, and that's just where you're gonna have to play with both ends, tightening and loosening with the tri-glide to get that desired sort of fit that you have, and that's based on equipment, your body type, and of course, your preference. But I would recommend, when you are setting up this sling, set it up and adjust it in a way where you're either going to have it all the way tight or all the way loose, relying on sort of a half, like, oh, I'm gonna do it half tight, which is still good for shooting and transitioning to a handgun, it's just hard to repeat that same position every time for consistency, so I prefer to set up slings where it's either, I'm all the way tight, because it's, you know, on my back or something, or it is all the way loose because that's what I need to actually shoot the rifle and do all my stuff, transition to a handgun, that's just how I prefer to set up a sling like this.
Now, what is used most commonly are QD swivels. So, this is technology which I'm sure many of you are familiar with, they have this little ball bearing and a spring, this is going to lock into place into a QD little cup on your rifle. A lot of rifles now have those built into the rails and also built into the stocks like this BCM stock. And it just allows you to pop a sling off of your rifle or potentially even move your sling at different points on the rifle without having to unthread things and do something really crazy. So you can pick up two of these separately. These two are from Magpul. I also have these two from BCM. It has a fun little Linus Tech Tip, a little Pro Tip.
These ones from BCM, you'll see that they're kind of, you know, angled quite a bit differently than the Magpul. These actually offer a little bit of benefit when they're positioned here at the lower receiver in terms of keeping the sling off of your hand. These Magpul ones are fine, you know, it's flat, but these BCM ones are angled so the sling can actually sort of move alongside this and kind of stay away from your hand. So sometimes I'll use a BCM for the back and then I'll just use a Magpul for the front because it doesn't matter. That's just a little pro tip for you guys, but I'm gonna go ahead and remove this sling from this rifle. And I'm now going to attach two, and I'm just gonna use these Magpuls, QD Swivels, now I've got these positioned and you'll see I have quite a bit of excess going on here. And this is something that you're gonna have to just deal with either through cutting off the excess once you've decided how much length of the sling that you want, or simply binding it up. A lot of folks do this.
And then taping it off over the tri-glide or onto the sling somehow so that if you do move this piece of equipment to another rifle of some sort, you can undo all that, have extra webbing. I usually just prefer to cut it off because that's just how I roll. So another thing to consider with QD Swivels versus just attaching the sling directly to the rifle is you're attaching a piece of metal that moves around to the rifle, which is typically also metal. On the rail, on your attachment point, stock, not so much. And this does cause some noise issues. So if you're someone who's trying to build out a rifle that omits zero noise while you're walking around and moving around with it, typically attaching the sling directly to the rifle as a piece of nylon is going to be the quietest option. Another thing you can do if you want a little bit more flexibility with the rifle as far as maneuverability of the sling instead of directly tying the sling off to the stock is actually creating a loop with paracord, which again is very quiet, and then attaching the sling to that. Then you get a little bit more mobility with the rifle and with the sling and it keeps the rifle nice and quiet if that's something that you're interested in. But in this case, I'm going to take my QD and I'm going to attach it. The big thing here is I'm going to push down on the little button to disengage the little ball bearings. And I like to do a push-pull. Because sometimes on these QD levers, as you use them, as they get wet, as they just go through the elements, sometimes the spring can kind of stick. You'll insert it into the QD. You'll go to do the other one, not knowing this didn't engage. You go to put the rifle on and it literally comes disconnected and the rifle hits the ground and you obviously don't want that. So I like to do a push-pull to ensure that this is actually in place. Good to go.
The sling to the lower receiver here, where the grip meets the lower receiver, and closer to where the upper receiver meets with the rail. This is going to give me still some good stability of the rifle when it is slung, but it's also going to give me a lot of flexibility in terms of maneuvering the rifle, whether I'm maneuvering it for a reload, maybe I'm at high gun or something, I'm at low ready. It's just a little bit more user friendly. And then the other one, and this is a pretty big one, when you mount the sling to your stock, which try it, run it, see if you like it, big thing that can happen is while you are moving the rifle and doing things, turning and doing anything dynamic, what can happen is the sling can drop over your back. Then when you go to present the rifle, you run into this, it's not great. And that is another reason why I prefer mounting the sling to the lower receiver, because that just keeps the sling a little bit tighter to the back. So even if I do collapse my stock because I'm sprinting or moving, the sling is still on my shoulder. When I go to index the rifle, I don't have any of this weird stuff. So it's just a little bit more consistent if I am moving and doing stuff, then running it back here on the stock. Granted, if it's back here on the stock and I go to put this on my back, it is going to be more stable than this right here, where now I have the stock wobbling around and moving, and it's just something I have to be aware.
So another cool feature about our sling, that this is pretty different than other slings on the market. Right now, the way these slings ship, by default, you pull towards you to tighten the sling, and you throw away from you to loosen the sling. But you can do something called setting this up for reverse throw, or instead it's the exact opposite. I'm going to be pushing the adjuster forward to loosen the sling, and I actually have to pull backwards to tighten. I'm going to show you guys how to set that up, if you're interested in that. Most people don't do this. It's a very small percentage of people, but it is something that you can do with this sling right here. So I'm going to undo the QD, undo the tri-glide, removing the webbing from the adjustment tri-glide on the little adjuster, unthreading from the reducer. So on the end of the pad, there's this little plastic thingy that goes from this thick size for the pad down to the skinny size for the webbing.
We're going to put the adjuster on this side, so it's going to start near where the pad is. We're going to take our webbing, and we're first, it seems a little unorthodox, we're going to thread, and you have to do it the right direction, so top to bottom, so that the sling, the extra tail will run underneath. But I'm going to do the QD first. I'm not doing the tri-glide yet. QD is placed. I take the webbing, and now I'm going to swim it back through the tri-glide for the adjuster. Boom, look at that, it's amazing. Now I throw my tri-glide on here, and now I have the adjuster set up for reverse throw, and all I have to do is attach this to the pad. I almost forgot what that was, the shoulder pad. So that's going to run through the thingy, run back onto the tri-glide.
And once again, we're going to double it back through the tri-glide for security. You just have to have enough tail for that. Good. Now, if I take the adjuster and I push forward, this sling loosens. When I want to tighten, I just grab that sucker, pull it back as much as I can, and the rifle and the sling is now tight to the body. Now, there's a couple of upsides to this technique. If I am carrying the rifle a lot in a relaxed position, and then I all of a sudden need to shoot, grabbing this while getting on the rifle is one smooth motion, or it can be one smooth motion with training. The downside to this method is, depending on where you're mounting this on the rifle, I now have all this excess material here where stuff is happening, whether I'm playing with buttons on my laser device, maybe I have a gun with a reciprocating charging handle like a Scar 17, maybe I have this all the way at the end where my weapon light is, and now it's starting to interfere with my weapon light. So there's just a little bit more stuff going on with this technique, but some of you guys might find value in that, or you might just want to try it out and see if it's for you.
Now, when it comes to stowing the sling to the rifle, there were a few things that were really important to us when we were working on this product and trying to figure out what it needed to come with. Slings can be stowed to the rifle in some particular fashion, sometimes being attached to the stock of the rifle, then using tension, pulling on the grip. It's nice and tight to the gun. You can put it in a bag, and the sling's not going to catch on anything. The downside to this technique right here is if you do retrieve the rifle and you want to shoot with it, well, you have to get the sling out of the way in order to do that. And I wanted a sling that I could keep on the rifle at all times, and it would allow me to shoot the rifle if I don't want to deploy the sling, or maybe I haven't had time. I want to be able to use the rifle basically no matter what, and the sling isn't preventing me from doing so. So we include these two little sling keepers, like I showed at the very beginning, and in this case, I'm going to use the black one on this MCX because it matches. This is why we do two different colors. You can do this.
And what we're going to do is we're going to put this on the fore end of the rifle. So in this case, I already have a weapon light and a laser on here, so I'm just going to have to stretch this over, which this. So now that I have this attached here, that is going to be what holds the sling in place once I fold it up on the handguard. And the way we're going to do this, and this does require some practice, it's no different than if you had a backpack that can like collapse on itself. You just have to practice putting that away. But I'm going to have the sling nice and tight so all the material is doubled up. I'm going to karate chop the sling to the back of the lower receiver or towards the back of where it attaches. I'm then going to loop the sling around on top of itself. And I'm going to pull on this side, so I'm creating tension so that it's tight to the gun. And then I'm going to slowly retract it outwards until it gets to where my shock cord is. So I need to go a little bit more. About there.
Take the shock cord, wrap it around. And now the sling is retained to the gun. It's nice and flat to the rifle, but more importantly, fire control is still exposed. So I can get my thumb in here, articulate that. I can still shoot. I can hit the magazine release. I can get up under here and hit the bolt catch. So I can still do everything with the sling on the rifle. It's not in the way. And then when it comes time to deploy the sling, all I have to do is grab the sling anywhere, pull towards me, and I'm good to go. I can then immediately loosen, do the stuffs, tighten, do whatever. And when I'm done, I'm going to once again, stow the sling to the rifle. And in this case, on this MCX, I have a folding stock. I can fold the stock onto the sling, and that's not going anywhere. And this can now go right into a bag.
While this is a two point sling, you can adapt it for single point use. You can do some kind of weird stuff, or you could literally tie a piece of paracord to one end, thread the other end through, and then have it as a two point sling. But there are also companies out there that make little adapters. So in this case, this is Impact Weapon Solutions, or I think that's what their name is. A little QED cup right here. That's actually a tri-glide as well. So on this SIG Rattler, as a little PDW rifle. It's set up as a two point with it loose. I can still shoot the gun and do things. But for whatever reason, I want a one point. So I detach the QED on this side, attach it to this little section right here, this adapter. I can then tighten, and now I have a single point PDW, like the old days.
Point, I can still tighten and loosen the one point however I want. And when I'm done, I can remove it easily, detach, throw this back onto the rifle, and I'm set. Our sling is obviously compatible with the majority, if not all, sling attachments on the market. Whether it's an HK style clash hook, the blue force gear, little loop, U-loop, whatever they call it. And of course, if you're creative, just standard paracord. If you have any other questions about the T.REX ARMS Sling and its compatibility with firearms and or other components from other manufacturers, go ahead and email us at [email protected].