Total no on zip ties for that application. Even the biggest and baddest are not up to it. Here's an older thread about slings if of interest:
https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread...g-setups/page4
I rig slings on a lot of carbines each summer. The only thing I might use a zip tie for is, heat a nail and burn a hole through the slide 3/4" from the very ned, rig sling, put a zip tie through the hole to keep the end from ever slipping through.
Going through my old thread above I'm surprised to find no pics of what I do with para cord, I'll get some up. Basically on the front I take a piece of paracord one cubit long (ya gotta research that, nyuck nyuck) and make a simple loop from it, about 3" diameter. I choker hitch that thought a hole in the fore end or around teh cross-bar of an A-frame front sight base (where the gas tube goes). I've never had one melt off even though in this installation it's very close to the barrel let alone the gas tube. You can do the same thing up the back of the A frame but then things are flopping into your line of sight.
At the rear I take a length from fingertip to armpit and in the middle make a fairly tight loop, big enough to, say, pass a 3/4" rod. This winds up at the top of the stock slider; the ends go down, inder the slider body, and back up on top where they are knotted and melted-in.
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