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JPK
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Re: 'The African Carry'.
22/02/08 12:27 PM

9.3x57

No issues with our discussion, at least for me, an active exchange is not a fist fight! Hope you feel the same way!

The sling your describe seems to be remarkably like a Ching Sling. Reports are that it is a good way to carry a rifle. Eric Ching, who unfortunately passed away way too young, had some feature or other to make it relatively fast deploying too. But I have no personal experience with it.

Marraki,

Your photos show the point I was trying to make. They display a carrying style that I use and I'm sure lots of others use. For me, through a long day on tracks, they "all" get used. But as you say, awareness is key. When the rifle is carried as in your photos, when the "line" winds left and down, as it inevitably does in all but pancake flat topography, the fellow - or in your photo, the gal - has to be aware that unless some change is made the muzzles will sweep the next in line and in fact all behind.

Simalarly, the rifle in the "African carry" points about 180* in the opposite direction then the rifles you picture. And so when the rifle is on the right shoulder and the "line" swings to the right the carrier must be aware of those in front...

HopDoc,

The "African Carry" isn't the one to be using when action is known to be imminent, but it is faster from shoulder to ready to mount than you might expect, especially if a righty happens at the moment to be carrying the rifle on his or her left shoulder. I have been suprised, more than once, when an elephant has come boiling out of thick bush, to find the rifle in my hands and ready to go, without a thought on my part.

To all I'd say this, if you spend enough time on tracks you will eventually try it and you will find that it is a very comfortable and easy way to carry a heavy rifle, especially a double rifle with its flat bottom.

JPK

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'The African Carry'.	tophet1	17/02/08 09:59 PM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	JabaliHunter	18/02/08 05:28 AM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	shakari	18/02/08 06:00 AM
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Re: 'The African Carry'.	NitroX	20/02/08 01:51 AM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	shakari	20/02/08 02:20 AM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	JPK	20/02/08 06:39 AM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	9.3x57	20/02/08 02:14 PM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	tophet1	20/02/08 06:12 PM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	9.3x57	21/02/08 01:29 AM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	JPK	21/02/08 04:43 AM
Re: 'The African Carry'.	Chris	06/06/08 01:09 AM
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