Is it just me or do Mammut slings suck, now?

I recently bought a bunch of the newer red Mammut shoulder slings to replace old gold Mammut ones, and they unravel like a loosely knit sweater! You can't throw them with your gear or walk past a scrub oak without threads being pulled out (and they're almost impossible to thread back in). I doubt I'll get a year out of these. By then I hope to find something better.

I was a Mammut guy but have transitioned to the Trango slings and haven’t looked back.

Somehow trango sort of misses on a lot of gear but their low bulk slings are great 

I have mammut, trango and dmm slings for alpine draws. Trangos and dmms are looking brand new and are older than my mammut, which are all fuzzy and shouldn't be for how old they are. I like the way they sew their terminations into a piece of fabric, but I also have no problem with regular dyneema slings. 

I agree that trango has made some funky gear at times, and these draws are a funky color combo, but I actually like them and would buy again. 

Strange. I’ve got a handful of the red mammut contact slings mixed in with the others in my rack and they’ve held up fine for several seasons of cragging + alpine. 

You might want to contact mammut about your slings. I have owned several contact slings for a few years now and they have held up well.

The Mammut Contact Sling is our favorite climbing sling and also scores as the highest overall, making it our recommended choice as the best climbing sling you can buy. The only time we would seriously consider a different sling is if you are concerned about expense.

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I agree. After using Mammut 8.0 slings for less than a month they are all fuzzy and nasty. I way prefer using bd slings now.

Try the purple DMM slings. The best part about the Contact sling is the handling properties, not the durability, and I have 6 or so in alpine draw config. The DMM handles almost as well, but has the same durability as my BD and CAMP 60 cm slings. I do not like the Metolius or Trango slings, they are too bulky. 

FYI: don't use the Mammut to tie off chickenheads, because they like to snag on crystals and shit. 

Buck Rio wrote:

Try the purple DMM slings. The best part about the Contact sling is the handling properties, not the durability, and I have 6 or so in alpine draw config. The DMM handles almost as well, but has the same durability as my BD and CAMP 60 cm slings. I do not like the Metolius or Trango slings, they are too bulky. 

FYI: don't use the Mammut to tie off chickenheads, because they like to snag on crystals and shit. 

Doesn't the DMM just have standard bartacks, though? The main attraction of the Mammut for me is that the stitching is "capped" so it tends not to get hung up on carabiners and whatnot.

Andrew Krajnik wrote:

Doesn't the DMM just have standard bartacks, though? The main attraction of the Mammut for me is that the stitching is "capped" so it tends not to get hung up on carabiners and whatnot.

They (DMM) don't have the cover, but I've never experienced any problems with them because of that. In fact, I really don't care for the little fabric covering on Mammut Contact slings. I just like the way they hang on my harness in alpine mode, and are super supple. The Mammut do snag on every crystal and rugosity around though, and quickly become fuzzy. 

That's been my experience. The mammut slings may have the bar tacks hidden in fabric, which is a cool idea,  but the desired effect is negated when the entire sling as a whole just gets snagged on everything. I prefer the slicker material of the trango and dmm dyneema slings for alpine draws. The new BD ones fuzz up really quick too. 

Same here. My Mammut slings fuzzed out a lot faster than my Trango slings. 

Mammut and Trango miss the mark sometimes but the Trango slings stand out for sure.