Paracord Rifle Sling: A Step By Step Guide

 

If you hunt a lot, chances are your rifle or shotgun has a sling, especially if you head out into the bush for prolonged hunts.

Chances are also very good that your sling eventually will become frayed and unusable.

Here are the instructions on how to make an incredible paracord rifle sling that is both functional and awesome looking.

To start you will need to find out how long of sling you will need for your gun.
Once you found the size that fits, mount your swivels on the board using the screws and washers.

Take some Paracord and wrap the swivels making 4 parallel runners. It took 15 foot of cord to do this, but leave yourself some extra to work with…. This will be tied off at the end, for now just wrap them to the back side of the board and tie them off.

Take your spool of cord and tie this to one of the screws leaving yourself some extra to work with at the end of the weaving process. Start weaving under and over the runners. As you weave along keep everything tight and work out any twists as you go along.

When you get near the end of the strap you will have to cut your feeder spool off, when I did this I pulled off more then what I would need. Take some stiff wire and use it as a needle to help on the last few weaves.

At this point, you can take the screws out of the board and untie all the tag ends. Take the wire bent in half and fish it under a weave (3 or 4 if you can) on the inside of the strap leaving a loop to pull the cord tag ends. Trim off and melt the ends. Do this for each one.

This paracord sling for your hunting rifle is functional, durable and you can make it to suit your choice in colors and camouflage – creating a sling that melds into its environment.

Best of all, it is inexpensive and simple to make if you take your time and follow these directions.

Our friends over at instructables have more ideas like this as well as detailed pictures for these instructions.

 


17 Comments

  1. Brandon Keefer said:

    I’ve thought about it but hadn’t done it bc that’s a lot of paracord

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