Fourth.
This one is dual use. They can be slipped over mag bodies to make them silent in the mag pouch by preventing the mag bodies from directly touching each other. The rig will become REAL quiet now. A big plus doing this is a new rubber grip area on the bottom 1/3 of the mag for mag changes. No slip no fumble mag changes! This one is cool. Try it, You'll like it.
Fifth.
My most recent discovery. The Reflex Fix, A.K.A. The Poor Mans Tripower . Reticle washout at night has been a big problem for me(and many others) with this sight. So here's my answer for it.
Take a small piece of tire tube, a mini(1 1/2in) Cyalume light stick(GREEN please, other colors dont illuminate as well), a Trigicon Reflex II, and you now have a sight system ready for any lighting condition. Just pull the tubing over the front of the sight, crack the lightstick to activate and stuff it in between the tubing and the fiber optics under the polarizing filter on the front sight. As long as this setup is used with the polarizing filter attached, there is NO light signature from any angle, and your aiming dot is about %300 brighter for approximately 8 hours. In daylight just pull the tube foreward and expose the fiber optics again, . Then at dusk insert another Cyalume charge. Pretty cool huh? A Poor Mans Tripower.
I made a prototype of a light stick holder for the front of this sight, but the tire tube worked right off the bat and was the right price(free) and the mini Cyalume light sticks run about a buck a piece. I've since abandoned the lengthy R&D and went right to using this setup. High speed low drag, and low cost! I love my Reflex again!
I've come to a realization, that the KISS principle is a good one, and I now keep a few extra pieces of tubing in my shooting kit. These are great ideas and they're so simple they work. Thats the thing that gets most people. Friends at the range kind of look at me weird at first, handle my AR with all these pieces of tire tube on it, then proceed to do the same thing I did. Just go WOW it feels and works so much better. Then they're asking me for a few pieces of tubing to try themselves.
Well guys, I hope you enjoyed the post and try some of these ideas out. Post back and let me know what you think. Just dont cut up your kids bike tires in the process.
I dont think I can handle the mad mail from all the significant others out there."He read this post on AR15.com, and proceeded to cut up our four childrens bike tires, he's crazy I tell you, CRAZY!"