doughboy Posted January 8, 2015 #1 Posted January 8, 2015 Hi, Here is my newest acquisition - a brand new in the box Thompson SMG web sling.If I see right the box is dated 4/1956 and I always thought these mustard slings were only produced during WW2.Could it be these were repacked and stored after the war ? doughboy
Red Devil Posted January 8, 2015 #2 Posted January 8, 2015 That is very neat--the box is a great find. I also believed these were only produced in WWII. Are the buckles marked?
airborne53 Posted January 8, 2015 #3 Posted January 8, 2015 hello yes repacked , original ww2 olivier
doughboy Posted January 8, 2015 Author #4 Posted January 8, 2015 No,the buckles and the sling is not marked. doughboy
268th C.A. Posted January 21, 2015 #5 Posted January 21, 2015 That's cool. I had two & sold one a few years ago. Mint. I got a pretty penny. (not boxed) The other one is on my dummy gun.
tarheeltim Posted January 21, 2015 #6 Posted January 21, 2015 I thought most of the Thompsons utilized WWI Kerr slings. Did they manufacture a similar version during WWII? If so, do you know how they were marked?
svt40 Posted January 22, 2015 #7 Posted January 22, 2015 I have a Kerr sling exactly like the one you show here and I was always curious if it was WWII or not. It came out of a barrel of canvas slings back in the 80's at a surplus store along with a lot of Garand and Carbine slings.
Big Al Posted January 22, 2015 #8 Posted January 22, 2015 The sling in the OP is called an M3 Sling (M3 referring to the sling itself, not what it is used with). The date on the box is not the date of manufacture. It is the date the original packing was unwrapped, the sling inspected, an rewrapped for storage again.
Jim16a1 Posted January 22, 2015 #9 Posted January 22, 2015 Apparently they made a few different lengths of this sling. I believe they started as a commercial 'private purchase' item, then were contracted by the government. WWI production was for the '03 and the '17, and then they made a few during WWII for the Thompson. Most that I have encountered were sold as 'Thompson slings' but were actually WWI era, in the length made for the '17 rifle. Somewhere out there, a TM exists on the fifty different ways to use this sling. They are actually really well designed and versatile.
Johan Willaert Posted January 22, 2015 #10 Posted January 22, 2015 I have several unmarked slings on my TSMGs which as far as I know were made in WW2 for SMG use. The KERR NO-Buckl marked slings were made for rifles during WW1 or interwar and I keep one on my 1918 made M1917 Rifle At least that is what I have always heard...
toitoine66 Posted May 22, 2024 #11 Posted May 22, 2024 Hello, This was a long time ago, but this video can interest you:
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