Scott, thank you for referral to those Jack the Dog auctions. He had the Winchester and the week before had an Inland, both of which had khaki slings. I've included pictures from those auctions below. I think the khaki one I have may well be a repro. The looser weave, with 8 rows rather than the 9 in the other 3 I have and in both of those in the JTD auctions coupled with the lack of any pattern on the inside of the snap leads me to reach that conclusion. The pattern I refer to shows up in the third and fifth pictures of my initial post.

I was curious about the dated olive sling I have in my pictures above. It seems legit to me, but I was curious about the pot metal snap and post. In going through some of my collection of carbine mag pouches and cartridge belts that I have had for 30 - 40 years I am seeing some of the same metal. So I believe that one is real.

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