Butler Creek Easy Rider Shotgun Sling (Black)

by Butler Creek

Product Features

• Adjustable to 48" length
• Fully bound edges and a urethane cover add durability and give it a finished look

Product Description

If you thought a sling was a sling, you've never toted a gun with one from Butler Creek. Ultra-comfortable, secure and built to last, they are simply the best way to carry your gun. Up, down, over, under - wherever the hunt takes you, our new V-Grip Sling holds on for the ride. Constructed with out flexible, tacky compound, it keeps your gun locked in place on your shoulder, makes it feel significantly lighter and absorbs shock better than any sling on the market.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B001HBHOMS
• Item model number: 8008
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,343 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Sling. Some reviewers don't know what a shotgun sling is., February 25, 2011

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Marcus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butler Creek Easy Rider Shotgun Sling (Black) (Sports)

This Butler Creek shotgun sling is a decent sling, although I'd prefer that the pad were a little thicker and wider for more comfort (especially if the shotgun is seven pounds or more). The pad is 2-1/4" wide and just under 1/2" thick. The pad is a dense foam rubber with a non-slip surface on the back. The front is covered in a fabric that is bonded to the foam, and there is a small Butler Creek logo bonded to the fabric. It comes in black and some camo colors also. The barrel loop has leather stiched to it to protect the barrel finish, although it may rub off some bluing anyway after a lot of use.

The reviewers who gave poor ratings to this sling because of something like "the sling has sewn loops on both ends" are not aware that this is the way a "shotgun sling" is made. It is designed for shotguns like the standard wood-stock Browning BPS Hunter that don't come with sling swivel screws on the stock or a swivel eyelet attached to the magazine cap. (Although you can buy Browning and aftermarket magazine caps with a swivel boss).

Traditional shotguns with a nice wood stock and engraving don't have sling swivel mounts, one reason being they don't look very good. Some fine shotguns are works of art. Drilling the stock and mounting a swivel screw to an expensive engraved shotgun will reduce it's value.

So for this shotgun sling, the way you attach it is to loop the large end over the stock, in back of the pistol grip. You loop the small end over the barrel (under the ventitlated rib), in front of the magazine cap. You detach the barrel-end loop strap from the top sling sliding buckle to do this.

The ventilated rib standoffs on the barrel keep the loop from sliding off the barrel. If you have a smooth barrel without a vent rib, you can keep the loop from sliding off the barrel by mounting a Cat Eye brand plastic clamp on the barrel (it has a rubber pad). They are available on-line or at bicycle shops. The Cate Eye HP-5 clamp fits on 20 gauge smooth barrels. I think that the SP-5 clamp may fit on 12 gauge barrels, but it may require an additional strip of rubber (from an inner tube) to be tight. You can secure the sling loop tight around the barrel with a 1" Fastex plastic sliding buckle, the kind with two oblong rectangular slots (just like the one on the sling). Or you can sew a line of stitching.

If you want to secure the stock-end loop better in back of the stock pistol grip, you can cut one or two sections of a large diameter bicycle inner tube and stretch it over the back of the stock to hold the loop tightly in place. You can also secure it in place in back of the grip with some thread (which looks better than the inner tube), but then you'll have to cut the thread to get the sling off.

This sling obviously isn't as secure a sling using swivels, but when upland hunting you spend more time carrying the shotgun in your hands than over your shoulder.

If you have two sling swivel studs already on your shotgun (as with some turkey or deer shotguns), you just use a rifle sling on it, not a shotgun sling.

If you buy a magazine cap with a swivel boss attached, but you don't have a rear swivel stud installed on the stock , you can use a shotgun sling with the stock-loop over the rear stock piece as I described previously. But you can cut the stitching on the barrel-loop end of the sling and sew it around the metal loop on the swivel. Or just use a different piece of flat black nylon strap and either sew it on the swivel or use a 1" Fastex sliding buckle to form the loop.

If you have a turkey or deer gun with a swivel boss rigidly attached to the magazine cap, it may be possible to loosen the magazine if you pull hard on the sling sling strap and rotate it. So it may be preferable just to use a shotgun sling with the sling loop around the barrel as described previously and cut/re-sew the stock end of the sling to go through the stock swivel.

If you want to install a rear swivel on an inexpensive shotgun you will will need a sling swivel drill jig to guide the drill perpendicularly, a drill stop on the bit, and know what you are doing. Otherwise you could ruin the stock. Gunsmiths can do this properly in 15 minutes. Another alternative is to buy an inexpensive replacement rear stock piece and keep the original stock for if you sell the gun in the future. (Inexpensive composite rear stocks are available for the Remington 870 and a few other models.) Then have a gunsmith mount the rear swivel screw on the inexpensive stock piece.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good sling, September 25, 2009

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Obadiah Lacanilao "obie" (Compton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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the sling is pretty good. its nice and comfortable but i wish it had clips for my swivel mounts. i thought it would have clip ons for the mounts but just my bad assumption. over all good product. good for the remington 870 cause they dont come with swivel mounts.

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well made, August 9, 2010

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buzzkill "effenesseff" (USA) - See all my reviews

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I like it. Put this puppy on my 12 gauge.The pad helps a lot and makes it very comfortable. Not many positions to carry your rifle with a 2-pointed sling but my shotgun is my secondary weapon. Very well made!