These reproduction leather slings are made for DS Solutions.

Made from top quality British leather and finished in British Service Brown, these slings are exact copies of the original leather SMLE slings which most troops were equiped with at the start of WW1. Once trench warfare in France and Belgium became established as the norm the slings were rapidly withdrawn and replaced by the webbing ones that we are all familiar with. The leather slings both rotting in the wet of the Flanders trenches - and also becoming a favourite snack for the rats which proliferated on the battlefield. Despite this I have recently seen photos of British infantry in the trenches in 1917 some of which still had leather slings fitted to their rifles.

A similar sling, although with rivetted slides, was re-introduced at the start of WW2 as part of the 1939 (Emergency) Pattern Leather Web Equipment.

Unit of Sale; 1 Leather Sling.

Stock No; ENFIELD26

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Reproduction Leather Slings for SMLE

  • Product Code: ENFIELD26
  • Availability: 9
  • £25.00


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