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Posted: 8/13/2009 6:39:56 PM EDT
So I got this sling, but it feels brand new. Its a olive drab material type for my ak. Since the rifle has the worn look I want the sling to match. Whats a good way to wear in a sling, short of going into battle or wearing the rifle for months at a time. Would washing it make it more plyable? Its very stiff and just to new looking. Here is a pic, the site says used but in good condition, this one looks brand new, but for $7 im not complaining.
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Wrap it around your torso and roll around in the driveway?
Leave it out in the weather for a couple months? Soak it in beef broth and give it to a dog as a chew toy? Seriously, just go shoot the rifle. After a decade or two I doubt that anybody will laugh at you because your sling is too new for your rifle. BSW |
| Make sure you cut yourself somewhere and drizzle some of the blood onto it. Give it that authentic battlefield pick-up. You can tell girls that you bring over to the house about how your M-4 ran out of rounds during an attack in Afghanistan and you took that one off a Hadji you had just previously greased and finished off the rest of his buddies with it! |
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I did one of those using an angle die grinder and a scotch-brite disc.
Just sand it here and there along the edges mostly with a few touches on the face till you get the level of wear you desire. Adapt the technique to whatever abrasive items you may have at your disposal. Even a file or rasp may work. 
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