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Posted: 8/22/2014 1:32:48 PM EDT
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I'm working on a parts list for a build for my wife and she wants a Flip-Up style Front Sight Tower. She was interested in both the VLTOR unit and the YHM. Looks like the VLTOR offers both a clamp style and pinned.
I need to send her barrel to ADCO to have a muzzle device pinned on anyway so would you recommend going for the pinned front sight tower as well? Or, would you recommend the clamp-on style to save the $90ish ADCO would charge to pin on the sight tower? If you suggest the clamp-on models, how difficult is it to get that thing perfectly straight? |
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Clamp on has the best chance of being accurate, pinned on is the most reliable. Is it a combat gun or a target gun? I kinda agree with this. If it is just a range/fun/comp gun I'd go clamp on and not worry a bit. I like pinned for duty guns though. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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FWIW, ...
I made a dissy style with the Armalite clamp on FSB. I was initially worried about it being unreliable vs a pinned. If I had only stayed off the internet I never would have known the difference. YES, a pin will be mo stronga. But I sure can't tell. The gun is a farm gun. It gets knocked around slightly and has never moved on me. Im sure a soldier can break it in short order. But be realistic. THE BEST advantage for clamp on fsb is that you can zero with the front sight and then have a rifle with mechanical zero at the rear too. A ways back someone, (MillMonkey?) got a vise and a BFwrench and then twisted a vltor clamp on to the point it was destroying the index pin, receiver and sight tower. The clamp on the barrel didn't budge. |
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