I recently acquired a brand new SCAR 17 (yesterday).
I discovered that the front sight dovetail seems to be a sloppy fit - the front sight base can wiggle around in the dovetail on the gas block. The windage screw is the only thing holding it in there.
This seems wrong, so I called FN today. They told me that it's a feature and that it protects/helps the front sight somehow during recoil.
After a lot of bitching, I got the guy to agree to look at a video and give me his thoughts without just sending the rifle back.
(This was a different video I took yesterday, cell phone and all, so it was poor quality. I can't guarantee that they understood the issue I was trying to address, but they stood by "it's a feature" FWIW.)
This doesn't make sense to me and is contrary to everything I've ever seen, used, or handled with a dovetail.
Not to disparage the FN/Browning customer service guys, or accuse them of being disingenuous, but I've gotten that from CS crews before, so I want to bounce it off you guys.
Does this make sense to you, and do your SCAR rifles do this?
I got better lighting and a real (yet old and low quality) camera for this one. I lost some video quality during the upload and haven't been able to sort that out, but I think it shows the dovetail looseness well enough.