Barrel Mounted Sling Swivel!!!
It’s my understanding that the purpose was, on high recoil rifles, sometimes the front sling swivel would contact the hand (hard). If nothing else, it lowers the muzzle when rifle is shouldered....which is beneficial in areas of low limbs, etc.. I have a barrel mounted swivel on my rifle.I can shoulder my rifle and walk up out of my basement without contact on the overhead....can’t with my wife’s rifle (conventional stock mount)!
The only negative (IMO) is... if you use a tight sling when shooting, it could change barrel harmonics or cause contact with a free floated barrel...causing a zero-shift. As I have full length bedding....it hasn’t proven to be an issue for me! memtb
Last edited by memtb; 12/29/17.
