paracord slings and stuff

[Blammer]

Ok, what's the 'fascination' with paracord slings, and bracelets and stuff.

To me they are bumpy, rough, don't work well as a rifle sling and generally look bad.

Why do people buy them?

is it for the 'oh in case I need a long string I'll have one with me, I'll just take apart my sling and make a tent...'

anyway, what do you think?

[Bullshop Junior]

I think it is just the look an the fact its hand made. A lot of people will buy worthless stuff just because its hand made.

[CastingFool]

I just made one for my .22rf rifle. I made it because I have a lot of paracord on hand, and I didn't have to spend money on it. I would have used leather, but don't have any.

[Bullshop Junior]

I honestly wanna make one for my 454 Puma rifle.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

we called it Macramé back in the 70's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macram%C3%A9

[Hickok]

One strand or segment gets cut and the whole things unravels!

[shooter93]

It's so you always have a rope handy to hang yourself with when shtf....lol.

[starmac]

I would actually like to have one for every rifle I own. I have spent several unplanned nights in the hills or on a river bank, where parachord would be handy, and it would be one less thing in the daypack.

[Pb2au]

My wife makes the bracelets and slings. It cracked her up when she figure out how to do it. Macramé, she exclaimed. She saw a sling at a gun show and had it figured out in about an hour when she got home. She enjoys making them and giving them to friends as gifts.
It is simply a handy way to store a lot of line. Cordage is simply very very useful in many applications.

[CastingFool]

You can look up how to videos on Youtube.

[MrWolf]

I made the bracelets for my family. Easy and did it while watching tv. Just an easy way to carry cordage. Guy at work made a really nice one for his watch - someday I will make a sling out of paracord.

[swamp]

Before the hippies discovered it and called it macrema, the sailors(wind power) called it square knotting. Ashleys book of knots is a great referance book if interested in knotting.
swamp

[L Ross]

I like paracord lanyards for waterfowl calls and to hang a hemostat and clippers on for ice fishing. I do believe they should last for decades.

Duke

[Love Life]

It's an easy way to carry a lot of cordage. Cordage is nice. I personally don't use the slings, but always have 550 cord in my pack.

[btroj]

Beats pink camo....

[John Allen]

Love life, same here I keep 50 feet in my packs and end up using it all the time

[MTtimberline]

is it for the 'oh in case I need a long string I'll have one with me, I'll just take apart my sling and make a tent...'

^^^ This
And plus it's "Taticool" and that's what's in style at the moment.

[btroj]

But it must be black to be tacticool...

I don't get it either but I suppose others aren't looking for my approval.......

If I need some cord I carry some cord, if I need a sling I use a sling

[MtGun44]

The claim is that you unravel it in a "survival situation" and have a piece of rope. Yawn.

Bill

[btroj]

If I have a potential to get I to a survival situation I better have more than a piece of cord. Going into the backwoods means taking a pack.

Sounds like mall ninja talk to me.

[Love Life]

People who have been in situations where they wish they had some cord, usually always carry cord along with the rest of their OS kit.

The slings do have their use and real life practical application, but as I said above, I always have cordage so I use different slings.

As for the bracelets, they aren't a bad idea. People like them and they can be useful if needed.

To each their own.

[Love Life]

If I have a potential to get I to a survival situation I better have more than a piece of cord. Going into the backwoods means taking a pack.

Sounds like mall ninja talk to me.

You say that, but you never know.

[starmac]

Lots of uses for cordage. If I think I am going to get in a survival situation I just don't go. If I go afield I always have a small daypack, but a sling would be just that much less to carry. I don't figure I will ever win a fashion contest in town, much less when I am in the bush by myself, so what my sling looks like doesn't bother me at all.

[Baron von Trollwhack]

Many are at the zenith of their personal skill levels with paracord weaveing. I've seen that some Chinese cord weaving is done by exploitation factory six year olds.

Of course many more non-weaving people progress to much higher mechanical skills.

It is like turning 9" Old Hickory butcher knives into repurposed 6" potato peeling knives.

Believe it or not a 50' hank of paracord weighs no more than an equivalent length nicely woven......and it deploys much easier, while leaving your real sling operable.

BvT

[Blammer]

yea I was thinking, If I needed a small length of cord, I'd have to take apart my sling, now it's worthless, use the cord then have to hand carry my rifle all the time afterwards. oh joy...

[Beagle333]

I want a tent made out of woven paracord..... that way if times get hard while out in the wild, I can cut pieces off of it to have some rope.... and I'll still have enough left to make a tent!:-D

[Blammer]

I seem to have struck a cord...

[blaser.306]

When I was a youg'n I was into flying model rockets! This was the start of my story. Bought a kit with no parachute? Happened along on 1/2 of a polyester cargo chute!!! All I needed was a 36" diameter round chute. Everyone ended up with chute material . My grandmother dissapeared with all of the chute lines? When we finalised her estate years later, there was a bag folded up in a cedar chest with my name on it? Inside was a Croche'd (sp) table cloth that she made from the individual strands of the fine nylon cordage! This will be treasured for all time!!! Not to mention it is tough as nails.

[dragon813gt]

I don't wear the bracelets but have made them for people. I do use them for slings because I have the cord and they hold up. Not saying that leather doesn't. But I have to buy one of them. The main thing I use it for is dog collars and leashes. It's damn near indestructible for these purposes. I make my dog a new collar every six months or so because the old one stinks. Takes fifteen minutes to make one and he's good to go. If a GSP running through thickets hasn't destroyed his collar I'm not worried about my slings coming apart. I don't carry these items for survival or tacticool reasons.

[Blammer]

throw the dog collar in the wash, it may stop stinking... or wash the dog more often.

[Bullshop Junior]

Beats pink camo....

Anything is better then pink camo.

[Bullshop Junior]

People who have been in situations where they wish they had some cord, usually always carry cord along with the rest of their OS kit.

The slings do have their use and real life practical application, but as I said above, I always have cordage so I use different slings.

As for the bracelets, they aren't a bad idea. People like them and they can be useful if needed.

To each their own.

I always have a full roll of para cord in my truck, and usually about 20' of it in my back pocket. Used it to tie up a bad guy at walmart a few years ago after I broke his arm.

[btroj]

Anything is better then pink camo.

Unless you are hunting flamingoes.....

[Love Life]

I always have a full roll of para cord in my truck, and usually about 20' of it in my back pocket. Used it to tie up a bad guy at walmart a few years ago after I broke his arm.

It's good stuff to have around. Very good stuff. Whenever I leave my truck, no matter for how long, to wander around the desert I have some sort of pack and paracord is in all of them.

I can see the utility of having it on a bracelet. Not so much a sling since Blammer brings up a good point. However; hand carrying your rifle is a small price to pay for the many uses of survival cord in a true survival situation.

Or, now follow along here, when you unbraid your sling. Take a single strand of Paracord to use as a sling and use the rest for whatever you need. A simple solution...really.

The real solution is to just keep some paracord on you.

[Love Life]

Unless you are hunting flamingoes.....

Aren't you building a rifle with a rainbow stock?

[Bullshop Junior]

It's good stuff to have around. Very good stuff. Whenever I leave my truck, no matter for how long, to wander around the desert I have some sort of pack and paracord is in all of them.

I can see the utility of having it on a bracelet. Not so much a sling since Blammer brings up a good point. However; hand carrying your rifle is a small price to pay for the many uses of survival cord in a true survival situation.

Or, now follow along here, when you unbraid your sling. Take a single strand of Paracord to use as a sling and use the rest for whatever you need. A simple solution...really.

The real solution is to just keep some paracord on you.

That single strand was my idea. I kinda like the way the para cord slings look. Im probably gonna make one, but I wanna weave the tusk from the first big boar hog i get into it for my 454 puma rifle.

[btroj]

Aren't you building a rifle with a rainbow stock?

Why yes I am. And a big, shiny barrel. All 30 inches of it.

Do I detect some jealousy?

[Bullshop Junior]

Why yes I am. And a big, shiny barrel. All 30 inches of it.

Do I detect some jealousy?

Its needs a pink camo para cord sling

[btroj]

No sling swivels on this one. It will be purely a bench queen. It also won't ever see a jacketed bullet fired thru it.

[Artful]

Why yes I am. And a big, shiny barrel. All 30 inches of it.

Do I detect some jealousy?
I thought it was going to be a shotgun
http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/066/f/b/aa_12_shotgun___rainbow_dash_edition_by_thebadpand a2-d4rzs9z.jpg

[Bullshop Junior]

Now im curious. What are you building?

[Love Life]

That single strand was my idea.

What do you mean? I didn't see you post it in this thread.

People are freaking out about "My whole dang sling is gone!!!" when the common sense solution is to just use part of the sling as a new sling and still having cord to use for other stuff.

[Bullshop Junior]

What do you mean? I didn't see you post it in this thread.

People are freaking out about "My whole dang sling is gone!!!" when the common sense solution is to just use part of the sling as a new sling and still having cord to use for other stuff.

I should have worded that differantly. It was my thought proccessing. Hows that?

[Love Life]

Why yes I am. And a big, shiny barrel. All 30 inches of it.

Do I detect some jealousy?

My rifle is more ninjatastic than yours. Neener!!!

[Love Life]

I should have worded that differantly. It was my thought proccessing. Hows that?

Now I'm tracking. Sometimes I need things spelled out in big block letters.

[Bullshop Junior]

Now I'm tracking. Sometimes I need things spelled out in big block letters.

I have a horrible habit of placing words together in the wrong patterns.

[btroj]

This stock style but no vents.

http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p733/Btroj/image_zps4518827d.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/Btroj/media/image_zps4518827d.jpg.html)

This laminate color

http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p733/Btroj/image_zps3bc12def.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/Btroj/media/image_zps3bc12def.jpg.html)


Easy to see why Tim calls it a rainbow 4x4

It will be the gayest rifle on the line......

[Love Life]

If you put a suppressor on it, you can shoot with a lisp!!!

[Bullshop Junior]

This stock style but no vents.

http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p733/Btroj/image_zps4518827d.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/Btroj/media/image_zps4518827d.jpg.html)

This laminate color

http://i1348.photobucket.com/albums/p733/Btroj/image_zps3bc12def.jpg (http://s1348.photobucket.com/user/Btroj/media/image_zps3bc12def.jpg.html)


Easy to see why Tim calls it a rainbow 4x4

It will be the gayest rifle on the line......

What are you building? What action barrel and caliber?

[btroj]

No suppressor, it needs to have a loud, booming voice.

Daniel, it will be a 30 XCB, a 30-06 run in short. Look in the special projects section for Gears thread on the cartridge.

Won't be traditional, won't really be pretty, but it will be accurate. It also will be darn hard to not notice on the line.

[Bullshop Junior]

No suppressor, it needs to have a loud, booming voice.

Daniel, it will be a 30 XCB, a 30-06 run in short. Look in the special projects section for Gears thread on the cartridge.

Won't be traditional, won't really be pretty, but it will be accurate. It also will be darn hard to not notice on the line.

It will be very pretty, in the same way some guys are very pretty. Depends on who is viewing it.

[btroj]

Dude, did you just call me pretty?

In all fairness it will be attractive in its own way. I decided that if I was going somewhat gaudy them by gawd I was going gaudy. My wife and daughter chose the stock color.

[Bullshop Junior]

Dude, did you just call me pretty?

In all fairness it will be attractive in its own way. I decided that if I was going somewhat gaudy them by gawd I was going gaudy. My wife and daughter chose the stock color.

Did I mention your name? Lol. I think it will be a....interestion looking rifle. Like one of those chicks thats fun to look at but you wouldnt take home.

[btroj]

Pretty much.

Tim is going to make sure it stands out. I figure it will be pretty once it starts making small groups on paper.

Would any of us keep a beautiful rifle if it shot poorly? Doubt it. No safe queens in my house.

[Bullshop Junior]

Pretty much.

Tim is going to make sure it stands out. I figure it will be pretty once it starts making small groups on paper.

Who is tim? Ive been away fr this forum for too long to still know everyone by name. When this forum was 600 people i knew everyones first names...

[AlaskanGuy]

Ok, this thread has been :hijack::hijack:

[btroj]

Who is tim? Ive been away fr this forum for too long to still know everyone by name. When this forum was 600 people i knew everyones first names...

Goodsteel, the guy building the rifle.

[Bullshop Junior]

Ok, this thread has been :hijack::hijack:

Thanks for the heads up.

[Bullshop Junior]

Goodsteel, the guy building the rifle.

Ok, now i know who you are talking about lol.

[Blammer]

I wanna see the one strand paracord sling and someone using it for a 2 mile hike. My bet is the arm will be cut off.... :)

[Beagle333]

What about a paracord belt and a paracord sling.... that way you can use your sling for ropes and a tent and you still have your belt for a single strand sling* and a pair of suspenders! :wink:

*credit to LL for the original single strand sling idea.

[Love Life]

Dude, did you just call me pretty?

In all fairness it will be attractive in its own way. I decided that if I was going somewhat gaudy them by gawd I was going gaudy. My wife and daughter chose the stock color.

Are you going to do any coating to the barrel and action?

[Bullshop Junior]

Are you going to do any coating to the barrel and action?

Neon purple duracoat

[Bullshop Junior]

I wanna see the one strand paracord sling and someone using it for a 2 mile hike. My bet is the arm will be cut off.... :)

Wouldnt be comfortable. But doable.

[btroj]

Ok, this thread has been :hijack::hijack:

Did I do that?

[Bullshop Junior]

Did I do that?

I believe I did.

[btroj]

Are you going to do any coating to the barrel and action?

Barrel will be polished stainless. Action is currently blued, I have a feeling Tim will polish and reblue it. He isn't gonna let it leave the shop til it meets his standards.

[Love Life]

I wanna see the one strand paracord sling and someone using it for a 2 mile hike. My bet is the arm will be cut off.... :)

Cross body sling it and you'll be fine.

[Love Life]

Barrel will be polished stainless. Action is currently blued, I have a feeling Tim will polish and reblue it. He isn't gonna let it leave the shop til it meets his standards.

You should see my rifle now. She has quite a few marks from bouncing around the desert. Tim said I wouldn't hike it around and up a mountain, but I have...a couple times.

[btroj]

You should see my rifle now. She has quite a few marks from bouncing around the desert. Tim said I wouldn't hike it around and up a mountain, but I have...a couple times.

Honest wear is good. Those aren't scratches, those are memories.

[CastingFool]

Wouldnt be comfortable. But doable.

that's another reason why I made my paracord sling. took about 64 ft. I told you earlier I have lots of it. It's not the kind of paracord you normally see. It came off a worn out 60' diameter cargo chute.

[starmac]

I wanna see the one strand paracord sling and someone using it for a 2 mile hike. My bet is the arm will be cut off.... :)

I generally carry mine 99% of the time anyway, so unless I had to use the sling to make splints for both of my arms, it would be no big deal. lol