slings for encore

[S & W 642]

I just got my first encore and I have found a holster for it, but I was looking for a sling and the hardware uses a barrell band. I have a ss encore and I can only find the blue barrell bands, do they make ss barrell band for SS encores.

[S & W 642]

I am trying to find out if someone makes a Stainless Steel barrell band for the encore , all I can find is the Blued version

[southern utah]

all you will find is the blue form Uncle Mikes. I went with a rifle forearm on mine which has sling stud an front.  If your forearm is wood you can add a nickel plated stud that screws in. Rubber grip your SOL.

[S & W 642]

how do you put a rifle fore arm on the pistol will it fit in the same screw holes

[southern utah]

I had a third hole drilled and tapped to match rifle forearm. can use either forearm now. I also use the forearms on a hanger bar.  see pic at
http://Banned Site/TC/index.htm

under tech stuff then custom forearms. both my pics. Bullberry on rifle and the Virgin Valley is a pistol

[eywflyer]

Does anyone have a suggestion for mounting a sling stud on the butt of the encore rubber grip?  The three screws in the grip cap seem to srtip in the rubber pretty easily.  Therefore, I'm not sure if a sling stud mounted to the grip cap wouldn't just pull the screws out of the rubber after a little jerking around?

[encore3006]

 

[eywflyer]

Thanks for the info and source!

[Jay HHI6818]

Check with Bullberry. I saw a Bullberry 35 Whelen Encore at a local gun shop and it had a replacement grip bolt that extended below the grip with a swivel on the end of it. I bought one similair to it from SSK several years ago for my Contender.

http://www.bullberry.com/

[MikeP]

My Contender's wood/rubber handle has three small wood screws holding the butt-plate on. I slightly enlarged one of the three butt-plate wood screw holes to the proper size and inserted a wood-screw-type swivel stud in the handle wood. Works fine.