Improving Your Shooting #8. USGI Sling on Garand

TSRA 2007 Garand and Vintage Rifle champion, 2011 National Vintage Rifle Champion demonstrates using a web sling on a CMP M1 Garand. Notice the trigger work while shooting. Finger relaxes off the trigger just enough to reset.
USGI web slings legal for CMP matches with any rifle, including foreign military.

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• Higpower
• Rifle
• Web
• Sling
• M1
• Garand
• TSRA
• NRA
• USMC
• US
• Army
• Trigger
• Marksmanship

[evilfruzzin]

Where did you get the (shooters glove/mitt?) Do you use it for medical reasons, warmth or maybe just a pillow for the hand because you've been shooting all weekend? Just wondering.

[Blackfork6]

@evilfruzzin Champions Choice or Champions shooters supply. Also Creedmoor Sports. Common in Highpower Rifle shooting. Helps with the sling pressure.

[mrjimbles84]

Would it be possible to fit this sling to a Lee Enfield?

[Blackfork6]

@mrjimbles84 As long as the sling swivels are 1 1/2 inches, no problem. The web sling works well also. I have it in a separate video.

[Blackfork6]

@mrjimbles84 Yep.  No problem. The NRA and CMP allow this sling on any rifle for competiton.

[splinterTAMU2006]

Is this shot at the Hwy 30 Gun Range near Tyler, Texas???

[Blackfork6]

yep. That's the place. 

[cipher2012]

Wonderful. It's sad how the rifleman was fazed out by the frontline grunt after WWII. Techniques like this could have went a long way toward managing the M1/M14's recoil with a little training.  Most shooters my age nowadays have no idea what a slings for.

[Learnthebush]

*phone rings in video*

Shooters thought:

"damnit, what the hell does she want now?, im trying to shoot and make a video here!"

lol concentration breaker

[jeffandgena]

slingblade

[o0matthowarth0o]

because even if the rifle has made the bang the round may not yet of fired so you hold the trigger in for several seconds

[shippen2010]

Why do you hold the trigger back after every shot? THX for the vid i really have learned a lot.

[scottaspect20]

i like your video a lot but safety first! i might be wrong but you were firing in front of the line of fire

[wikieditspam]

@thelister4910 The sling is necessary for proper technique as designated in the original US army weapon's training of the World War two period:Put the strap on correctly when you can, but it's nonsensical to take the time when your under fire. The strap is essential to proper prone position technique, and will insure the greatest accuracy possible with the rifle if used correctly watch?v=QoZ_usoFVSc explains in better detail It's an original film made to eplain proper use of the M1.

[wikieditspam]

watch?v=QoZ_usoFVSc old film for troops, more detailed, but very long

[Ender3D]

Thanks for the great video. This certainly puts into a better perspective the blotchy black and whit illustrations from a manual I just recently read through.

[platinegroove]

Good clear & accurate information. Thank you.

[danthman114]

i set both web and leather slings up differently. i guess as long as it works...

good video...

[thelister4910]

What is your actual increase in accuracy using the sling in this way vs not using it at all? Everyone always says the sling makes you more accurate but no one has ever answered this question for me. Thank you for a great video.