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Posted: 7/26/2008 11:00:22 AM EDT
| I'm about to build/buy a couple AR's. Question is, with so many of yall obviously utilizing the red-dot's as your primary sight system, why are the fixed front sight bases so prevailant? Just wondering if I'm overlooking an obvious advantage in the FSB before I buy (plan to eventually use a red-dot, myself...) |
Are the folding fronts really that unsteady?
It is the mounting method. Nothing beats the factory taper pins for reliability of the front gas block and sight. Most of the aftermarket folding FSBs use screws to secure. |
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For me its price of flip-up and that the flip-ups are not drop in items. Im not like some people on this board that can sink 2-3K into a AR. What i spend on ARs is my fun money left over after bills are paid. So i am looking at spending 2-3 hundred on installing a flip-up or i could spend 2-3 hundred on ammo for trigger time. I just think i get more out of the trigger time compaired to a new front sight. |
This is my reason. It would be different if te FSB were interfering with my ability to use an ACOG, EO-tech, Aimpoint, or whatever. It doesn't though, it just sits there, barely noticeable, ready to be used if need be. |
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The front sight also makes a very nice anti-cant device when shooting a red dot at long range and you can use the tube (Aimpoint) or window (Eotech) as a BIG ghost ring if your optic was to go tits up. With magnified optics past 3X you will not even notice the front sight base. |
Not my GG&G front folding sight. Pinned on by them and no set screws. Nothing but built for the duration. I would not have set screws. I don't care what anybody says. A front folder even of the GG&G quality is not always there like a factory Colt taper pinned front sight. That is the purpose, the design. Hey, isn't Bushmaster "pinned to hell?" They have taken a lot of heat lately and I do not know why. Key not staked properly I think. Thats another story. BTW, the clamped on products can be spotted with a tig when sighted in, just as good IMO. |
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