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looong barrel. Shoulder sling problems.
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<blockquote data-quote="Pro2A" data-source="post: 1907630" data-attributes="member: 17889"><p>Are you referring to bipod preload or hasty sling style tension?? For bipod preload, Safari sling should not interfere with that. Sling attaches to bottom of forend/butt stock. On a traditional stock rifle with exposed barrel top, one leg of sling will freely, lightly lay over barrel (invisible/irrelevant) during shooting. Should be irrelevant in hunting accuracy context. I've never discerned affect on paper sight-ins. Foreshortened vertical bipod dimension (see below) through preload should have more affect than sling leg caressing barrel in hunting accuracy context. On ARs/chassis style rifles, foreend is (should be) free floated so there would be zero impact from Safari sling. Should you find it does indeed impact your accuracy, you might be able to drape the sling over the scope to totally avoid barrel contact.</p><p></p><p>For hasty sling tension, if your shot opportunity requires only off hand shooting with hasty sling tension, I doubt barrel harmonics from a sling touchy the barrel would be discernible within the off hand accuracy context....YMMV. But, then, I have zero knowledge about your shooting competencies, barrel harmonics/limpness.....no pun or humor intended. At only about $30 compared to what you have to gain, it is an insignificant risk to try before you venture afield,</p><p></p><p>Admittedly off thread topic, but I'm not a bipod preload fan despite everyone else being a practioner of preloading. In just a really, really old engineer's perspective, preloading a bipod vertical dimension "foreshortens" the vertical height of the bipod.....like a clock hand moving from 12 o'clock toward 1 o'clock.....analogous to rifle cant. Reflect on affect of rifle cant at long range. As the rifle recoils rearward, that foreshortened lost vertical dimension is regained (clock hand moving from 1 o'clock back to 12 o'clock) moving rifle upward. Ponder the impact at long range of a foreshortened height at sighting/trigger break regained during recoil by 1/4", 1/8", 1/16", even 0.050" at the muzzle. Benchrest shooters, really anal about precision.... rather than accuracy as in hunting/steel ringing/bad guy interdiction, commonly shoot with rifle free to slide rearward in recoil.....akin to foreend sliding smoothly on my pack. (I prefer to shoot off a pack rather than bipod.....eliminates bipod need /weight.) No one has successfully refuted my analysis....not even military trained snipers. I just get blank stares in ponderment. Comments. thoughts, anyone, please?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pro2A, post: 1907630, member: 17889"] Are you referring to bipod preload or hasty sling style tension?? For bipod preload, Safari sling should not interfere with that. Sling attaches to bottom of forend/butt stock. On a traditional stock rifle with exposed barrel top, one leg of sling will freely, lightly lay over barrel (invisible/irrelevant) during shooting. Should be irrelevant in hunting accuracy context. I've never discerned affect on paper sight-ins. Foreshortened vertical bipod dimension (see below) through preload should have more affect than sling leg caressing barrel in hunting accuracy context. On ARs/chassis style rifles, foreend is (should be) free floated so there would be zero impact from Safari sling. Should you find it does indeed impact your accuracy, you might be able to drape the sling over the scope to totally avoid barrel contact. For hasty sling tension, if your shot opportunity requires only off hand shooting with hasty sling tension, I doubt barrel harmonics from a sling touchy the barrel would be discernible within the off hand accuracy context....YMMV. But, then, I have zero knowledge about your shooting competencies, barrel harmonics/limpness.....no pun or humor intended. At only about $30 compared to what you have to gain, it is an insignificant risk to try before you venture afield, Admittedly off thread topic, but I'm not a bipod preload fan despite everyone else being a practioner of preloading. In just a really, really old engineer's perspective, preloading a bipod vertical dimension "foreshortens" the vertical height of the bipod.....like a clock hand moving from 12 o'clock toward 1 o'clock.....analogous to rifle cant. Reflect on affect of rifle cant at long range. As the rifle recoils rearward, that foreshortened lost vertical dimension is regained (clock hand moving from 1 o'clock back to 12 o'clock) moving rifle upward. Ponder the impact at long range of a foreshortened height at sighting/trigger break regained during recoil by 1/4", 1/8", 1/16", even 0.050" at the muzzle. Benchrest shooters, really anal about precision.... rather than accuracy as in hunting/steel ringing/bad guy interdiction, commonly shoot with rifle free to slide rearward in recoil.....akin to foreend sliding smoothly on my pack. (I prefer to shoot off a pack rather than bipod.....eliminates bipod need /weight.) No one has successfully refuted my analysis....not even military trained snipers. I just get blank stares in ponderment. Comments. thoughts, anyone, please? [/QUOTE]
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