I Have a buddy who's got a couple of competition M1A rifles that he wanted new slings for. He wanted the M1907 style sling which is a military style sling. He wanted them both black and I built one in an oil finish (natural) for me. These are 1 1/4" slings so they fit both the M1 Garand and M1A (they would probably fit the 1903 Springfield also). The natural one has different claws on it because once I put the slings together I realized that they weren't going to work since the claws wouldn't fit through the fixed sling loop on the butt of my Garand. All the slings now have the same hardware the black ones have.
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