I own a D-technik vz58 in 7.62mm. I have been struggling to properly co-witness. The upper rail is Bonesteel arms. First, I owned an Aimpoint Mirco H-1 but ended up selling it because I wanted something lighter and with a smaller footprint. Now I own a Leica Tempus red dot (2.0 MOA) and my rear sight is a Magwedge peep sight. If I mount the Leica on the upper rail, it blocks the rear sight view. In my attempt to lower the red dot, I am considering having a gunsmith mill the upper rail and mount the red dot directly to the rail. Anyone else have any suggestions? I will not use an angled mount, side mount or dust cover mount as I don't like the like look of those nor want the added weight.

do what you want is my only advice, i hate red dots myself, my eyes are defective so for me they suck.

First of all these are “NOT” AR’s so forget that whole co-witness thing. I am running an aluminum hand guard with integral top rail but there isn’t ANY red dot sights that will co-witness, so I am running an Aimpoint ML3 in a LaRue QR mount.  If the Aimpoint goes belly up, I can just quickly remove it and use the irons.

JMHO 😄

Co-witnessing a VZ-58 is pretty straight forward with a Bonesteel Arms upper rail. My is absolute co-witnessed with a Leica Red Dot 2 MOA.

You realize you're responding to your own thread from years ago, right?

I am responding to Maddogdan's post that he is not able to co-witness his rifle and these are not ARs so forget the whole co-witnessing thing.

I just got a Sig Sauer Romeo 5 with a Bonesteel upper handguard rail and it co-witnesses just fine with the low mount it came with.