 Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and today we're gonna talk about the AR-500 Armor two-point sling. So, first thing that we should say about the sling is it cost $12, and that's cause I got it in multicam. If you get it in like a Coyote Brown or whatever, it's 11 bucks. Shipping, I think, was around $8, which is absolutely ridiculous. There's no way this thing cost $8 to ship. So that's a little much. So all in, I'm in for about 20 bucks, okay? I wanna note that because I'm gonna say some bad things about it. But as far as a cost to performance ratio for 20 bucks, this is a pretty fair price, okay? So basically the sling is comprised of these two paracord loops, one on each end, right? You loop one around the buttstock there, and then this top one, I just looped around an extra piece of hardware that I had lying around and attached it to the front of the rifle here. You could probably also get away with using this loop to loop around the front of the rifle if you wanted to do that. And then they do have these little lockers here. They work okay, they don't work great, they tend to slide down, but you could probably try to lock that up to the front of the rifle and just attach it there if you didn't wanna use a piece of hardware, right? If you just wanted to try to loop it around the front of the rifle somewhere, and then maybe I would probably just end up taping that in place if I was gonna go that route. So that's an option for you. If you don't wanna go through hardware attachment. The other thing, which this is a good feature of the sling, this is a big positive, is it does have this pretty easy to use tab here to lengthen and take up slack out of the sling. That works pretty well. I appreciate how they designed that. That was one of the main reasons I bought it. And it's impressive to see that kind of a simple feature in such a cheap, for lack of a better word, sling. And I don't mean cheap necessarily in quality, although I do have some problems with that. We'll get there. I do like this tab. It's got a hypalon kind of sewn in on a crisscross pattern so it makes it pretty easy to grab. That's a cool deal. Plastic hardware, no idea who makes it, where it's from, whatever, but it feels solid. So that's good. For 12 bucks, I think the sling will do the job, okay? The other thing I will say about it that I really do like is it's long. I mean, this is a 20 inch AR and you got room in here. Like I got room to comfortably get in here. I mean, this is all the way in comfortable. I'm gonna talk about that in a minute. And I like that. So I like that you can loop it out and you can get plenty of workspace and you can really put this on any kind of full-size gun you want. So that's cool. I like that. Sometimes slings get a little tight on larger guns like that. Okay, so now the two things I don't like about it, okay? The first one is, when you just saw that when I just put it on, right? I just put it on and it has this tendency to peel out. So instead of sitting like this, which is how a sling should sit, it wants to sneak out and torque the other way. I don't like that. And I think that's because of how this is attached up here. Because they have these paracord loops and it's just so skinny, it's just such a small point and it turns into a hinge point versus if it was like a two inch wide or one and a half inch wide strap, it wouldn't be able to turn because it'd have more security there. So I really think that's the problem and I just don't know if there's a way around that. I've played with it, I've tried to put it on different sides, whatever up here, but so far I haven't been able to figure it out. If you're smarter than me and you figured that out, please let me know. That would be good, you can educate me. So that's kind of a bummer. And then the other thing, and this might seem minor, but it turns out to be a bigger deal, I'll explain why. First of all, I don't know what this piece is here for, okay? I don't know why they just didn't extend this piece and then attach the paracord directly to this buckle. I'm not sure why they ended up sewing this piece in here. But the problem is, is that when they sewed it in, these ends aren't folded over, so they're just cut and seared and they're really rough and this part sits right where your neck is and it just scratches and itches and it's super uncomfortable and really wears on your neck. Now you might be like, I deal in your little baby and okay, I'll take that, but if you're wearing a full kid or if you're wearing like a Mandarin collar and you got it all the way up or whatever, I think you'll be okay. But if you just wanna run slick, this thing is a pain. This thing rides right on your neck and it's constantly itching and not cutting you. I mean, I'm not bleeding, but scratching very uncomfortably and it's really bad. So for those two reasons, this sling is not gonna stay on this rifle. This sling is coming off. I've run with it a bit here. I've done some dry fire sessions. I've just worked with it and I just don't like it, man. I just don't like it. Now I'm not gonna throw the sling away. I'm gonna keep it. I'm gonna keep it in my bag, especially if a student has a sling break or they bring a really cheap piece of garbage or whatever. I'll gladly hold onto this for those uses and maybe I'll end up putting it on some other rifle I'm not gonna use very much or something. I think a way to try to maybe counteract this is you could put a piece of tape over here, right? And I'll probably end up doing that anyway just to try to get rid of these really sharp ends. But there's nothing I'm gonna do is gonna get around that point that the sling or the rifle's gonna keep rotating away from me. I don't like the way it sits like that. I just don't want my sling to do that. And it's my sling, it's my rifle, so I can do whatever I want. So other than that, like I said, good sling. If you wanna try it and you wanna take a gamble with it for the 10 to $20 it's gonna take to get to your house, I'd tell you to go for it. I like those guys at AR-500 Armor. I don't know them or anything but I just think they're putting out cool stuff. And because they do their nylon in Vietnam, they can end up making it extremely affordable which is really, really nice. So that's it, that's the AR-500 Armor sling or AR-500 Armor sling. And I don't know, try it out, take a look at it. Let me know what you think. But oh, the last thing, I forgot about this, one more thing is that because this thing is so long it often ends up, see right there where it'll loop over the barrel. And then I often end up trying to really struggle to not flag myself to get this thing to come back. And when you're wearing the gun and there's weight on this and you're trying to swing this, it becomes cumbersome. So that's just one other thing that, it just kinda bobbed me about it. I don't think it's a cheap piece of junk or anything like that, I just think it has some issues. Granted, again, it's 20 bucks so you can't expect perfection. But for me, I've just decided to go with a different sling for this rifle. Hope that's helpful. Do brave deeds and endure.