I'm Chris Sizelove, and this is the ULoop. The ULoop comes in 1.25-inch or 1-inch width for the Vickers 1-inch slings and everything else, which is 1.25 inches. The ULoop is special because it was designed specifically to solve a couple of problems.

Number one: going back into antiquity, most of the European offerings for weapon systems—predominantly H&K and a couple of others—used spring snap hooks for sling attachments. That was all cool, except they're metal, which means they beat the crap out of the side of the gun, and then the gates on them would fail. Finally, somewhere along the way, the technical data package changed, and a lot of the sling holes that came on newer generation guns were too big even for the sling snap hooks. For all those reasons, a couple of smart guys at Blue Force Gear said there's probably a better way to do this—thus the ULoop.

So I'll go over the specifics here, and then we're going to talk about how to mount them, where to mount them, and all the different applications you can use to mount these things to.

How the ULoop Actually Works

If you look at it, it's a steel cable with a very thin nylon coating. The nylon coating is there just to reduce wear on a metal-on-metal part. If it gets wicked hot, depending on your application, that nylon may melt a little bit, but the steel cable is still underneath it—that isn't going to melt. You're going to be fine.

To function these things, if you look at both ends, you'll notice that one side is completely captured and one side is only halfway captured. That's going to be the functioning side. All I'm going to do is put a little bit of pressure upwards on those swage balls—that's going to give me enough clearance to pop the swage ball on the left out, pull it all the way through, and this is going to be your running end through a sling attachment point or a hole or whatever I can find on my gun to attach this thing to. Once it's through there, recapture it, give it just a little bit of a thumb press to recapture that swage ball, and we're good to go.

Options for Mounting

I'll go ahead and install this on a 1.25-inch sling, which is real simple: back through the triglide—boom.

This is a decent example of a modern rifle with an M-LOK rail. For whatever reason, I don't want to use my push-button sling mount I have here, or I don't have one at all—you know, who knows, whatever. But see all these holes all over the rail? That's just all opportunity on where I want to mount this sling to because of the ULoop's ability to just find a spot that I think is going to work for me.

We'll just pick this guy right here: goes through—yeah, rabbit goes around the tree, back through the hole—yep, everybody remember that? Swage ball goes in, and wham! Now I have my ULoop attached to the front of the gun right here. None of this is metal or aluminum; it's not going to beat the crap out of the side of the gun. Also, it's going to get a little hot right up here at this point—no worries. The nylon may get degraded a little bit, but that steel cable is going to be good to go.

Very quick, very rapid. If you're thinking about just getting one sling and you have a myriad of weapon systems, I would highly recommend just getting ULoops for the front and rear. You can quickly and efficiently put them on pretty much all of your rifles. This is a pretty good example of just running it on a modern AR-pattern gun with a modern rail design. All right, if I want it back here, I can move it back here—no issue.

Mounting on Different Weapons

What else we got? Here's a typical European-looking subgun with these little tiny sling holes through it. The Vickers SMG sling comes with ULoops sewn in on both ends, and this is why. Mounting this to this little Scorpion—same deal: activate the gate, open up, find the sling mount, push it through there, back through the hole into the capture gate, and voilà! We now have this sling attached here very efficiently and in a manner that's not going to beat up the side of the gun like a spring snap hook.

Or if you have something like just really, really strange—this would fill that role of really strange. Thankfully, a couple of people that work at Blue Force Gear own some really weird stuff, so it helps us out when we're making videos. So this, the TEC-9, does have what appears to be TIG-welded bars up here that pass as some sort of sling mount. Definitely up here, I would not run a webbing sling because it probably won't last long under the environments, but this will solve that problem. So swage ball through here, back through, and we now have a solid sling mount on the gun.

Interestingly enough, with this heat shield, even if this sling mount wasn't here and I was just going to run this right here through these heat shield holes—not a problem, absolutely will survive that. I can do that too. Let me see if I can angle this guy through two of these heat vent holes, using my Strider knife to help me out. Even if this little sling mount deal wasn't welded to the front of this gun, I could just slip my ULoop right through the vent holes of the handguard—well, I wouldn't call this a handguard, but you know the deal—and put the wire right back through there. Now it's connected right there at the front of the gun, nice and clean. Don't have to worry about the heat; it's not going to bother this thing at all.

This kind of just shows the versatility of the ULoop. Anywhere you have a gap or a hole or something you can get that thing through, you have a sling mount that is absolutely amazing.

Closing Thoughts

So to put a bow on this—or I should say, to close the loop on this—the ULoop is going to get you all the capability you need to mount 1-inch or 1.25-inch slings on a lot of different weapons platforms to give you that optimal capability.