My Entrenching/Mine Probing Tool

I am going to a show in December.

Do you want me to look around?

Might be a WWII sling as WWI are hard to come by.

Let me know.

Always looking for military manuals, Dodge M37 items,books on Berlin Germany, old atlases ( before 1946) , military maps of Scotland. English and Canadian gun parts.

hoadie wrote:

Thanx Paddy - but I'd sooner wait fer the correct sling.
Just wouldn't do the Vimy Vet any justice if I were to put the incorrect dress on her.

hoadie: What is the correct sling for you.

I have been going through photos of that day and have noticed that almost every Enfield rifle has a canvas web sling. I did find three that had the leather sling with leather tie straps.

Which do you prefer?

Probably either, both seem to have overlapped considerably.

The leather with loop Pat '14:

"This Sling is a leather strap, 43 1/2-inches long by 1 1/4-inches wide. It has a fixed loop on one end, as well as a free running loop. To fit this sling to a rifle, the free end is passed though the front sling swivel from the rear, then looped around it and passed through, first, the running loop and then the fixed one. The free end is then doubled back through the rifle's rear sling swivel and tied with a leather thong. The Sling is an shorter, narrower version of the Sling, rifle, brown, infantry, introduced under L. of C. 4855, 29th August 1885, as part of the Valise Equipment, Pattern 1882. The Sling, rifle, pattern 1914, was used long after Infantry Equipment, Pattern 1914 was declared obsolete, and was still being manufactured in Australia as late as WWII."

& the Pat 37 Web:

"1937 Pattern Web Equipment (also known as '37 Webbing') was an item of military load-carrying equipment. It replaced the 1908 Pattern and 1925 Pattern—on which it was based—and was standard issue for British and Commonwealth troops from its introduction in 1937, throughout World War II, and in the post-war period until it was superseded by 1958 Pattern Web Equipment."

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

Well, looks like I'll be going with a web sling the.
The guy that carried the rifle @ the ridge is long past & I never had the opportunity to meet him.(Methinks his wounds had something to do with his early passing)
His son was in WWII (Cdn armour) & he passed a while back as well.

Loose wimmen tightened here

Oddly the best bet of getting a guaranteed original is to go for the war expedient one with the steel hardware, rather than the brass. No one I know of it reproing them!

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

A square 10:
I cant read your post..too dark for my eyes

Loose wimmen tightened here

Its a copy/paste from my earlier post:

"The leather with loop Pat '14:"

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)

I guess it depends on your focus.

The Pat'14 was "correct" but really disliked by the troops, so they'd dump them for a Pat '37 in a heartbeat!

Google for "P14 sling" & click "images" & it'll have a couple of rounds wedged into the loop!

No-one really knows why, but things like a "Last Ditch Suicide Round" have been suggested, but why 2 of them?

Another theory is they wedged the strap in place so it would stop slipping when wet & muddy.

Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force)