ICS Tactical Three Point Sling

ICS Tactical Three Point Sling
by Arnie

	Stock Specifications
Price	700 NT

A three point sling, simply put is something you really need to get, dropping your prized rifle on the floor just isn't cricket, and believe me - it will be concrete you drop it on. It's Muphy's third law of Airsoft.. or something.

ICS's three point sling is not exactly original, but hey - it's a sling, there's not much to go wrong, and from the outset you can see that there's no worries about this piece.

Now I've got a real MP5 sling here, a few homemade jobs, and a old real carbine sling kicking around. All have their disadvantages. Firstly the real MP5 sling is all fine and dandy, but the clip buckle that stops it from extending requires huge amount of force to release, and slapping a plastic MP5 AEG in half to release the sling is just going a bit far.

The ICS sling is aimed at the AEG market and should really fit just about anything. Here I've tested it here on a TM M733.

In the bag: The sling comes in your average plastic bag, nicely wound up with the ICS logo and some bright colouring acorss the label. Again to me it's the small things that matter.

In the bag you'll find the sling itself (comprised of two straps which attach to each other with velco) and two universal fixture points. Towards one end of the sling you'll see the ICS logo stitched into the material seems like a small point but it does assure you that you've got a real ICS sling here and not something different.

Fitting: Fitting the sling is easy, here on the M733 I've chosen to use the fixture points, rather than clipping the sling directly to any metal sling rings. The advantage of the fixture points is that they are made of nylon and hence, there's just no rattle, and the sling is unlikley to scratch away at your AEG. The buckles for the fixture points are also plastic, which although limits their overall strength does mean that yes again there's limited ability for the sling to 'clunk' around and rattle.

First line the sling up alongside your rifle, make sure it's the right length (adjust it if needed) and make sure that there's no twists in the material.

Now you need to take the fixture strops and attach one to the front and one to the rear. I worked from the back first here, but you've got to start somewhere for a review. On the sliding stock I just rang the first fixture through the looping holes and fixed it at the LHS of the stock. I'm right handed, but if you wanted to sling it the other way you just reverse what I've done.

Now with the rear fixture attached fix the attachment loop to the front and clip the front slip loop to the mounting point you've just created.

When you've got both fitted, just clip the sling onto the material loops. You'll find an elastic hood over the sling near the ends that you slip over the metal clip. This keeps things tidy, the muck off the metal work, and stops the metal loops clanking against the body. Nice touch I thought.

As I mentioned the sling has a velcro section to allow you to expand and shrink the sling to fit, I found no need to adjust it on the M733, but if you're fitting the sling to something longer or significantly shorter you'll find this an added bonus.

You don't have to worry about the velcro coming away, to be honest you could hang an M249 with all the trimmings off this one and still be happy that it's not going to break.

The only real problem I found was that it was not possible to lock the sling in the carry position. This isn't a huge issue, it's just that I'm fairly familiar with the style issued to the MOD with the L85 that features the qucik release buckle.

Conclusion: A good sling, well made and certainly very tidy and easy to use. Comes highly recommended.

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