Posted: 4/27/2012 1:21:21 PM EDT
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I am thinking about adding weights to my service rifle. I have WOA upper, white oak sells the weights, obviously you just toss the rear weight in the carptment, on the front one do you have to pop the handgaurds off put it on and and replace them?
What are the advantages of a few pounds to the gun? |
| It really comes down to balancing the rifle for offhand. IMHO I think the bias of the weight should be close to your center of gravity so I put more weight in the rear and less in the front. I use the lead wheel weights that stick on mag wheels and simply apply them under the hand guards. I have the full wedge in the butt stock and about another 1lb of wheel weights up front. |
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I have shot with a stock NMA2 and a custom weighted A2. The weight helps to reduce the wobble in your front sight and minimizes the sight jump when you fire. How much weight and how it's balanced will be entirely personal to you. Try taking some tube socks filled with sand and hanging them over the handguard and stock. You can add and remove sand from either until you have what feels right, then weigh them and trim your lead to that same weight.
Get lots of practice with the heavier gun once you have it set up. It takes some more effort to heft that rifle into place for off hand, but the effort is worth it. You won't even notice the weight when you are slung in for sitting and prone, and it helps with the sights on those positions too (a little). EDIT: I should add that both weighted rifles I have shot were not my own. One was weighted a little more forward, and another weighted over the magazine well. I support the gun under the mag, so that second balance has worked best for me (so far). |
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As mentioned, I also use most of the weight in the rear but none up front. Have a cCompass Lake barrel, think it's heavy enough that the rifle balances at the delta ring using only a few 6oz. lead sinkers wrapped in a sock in the rear compartment. I haven't changed this setup in a few years, seems to work for me as long as the rifle is balanced in the middle close to where I put my non-firing hand i'm happy.
Some barrels are heavier/profiled different than others so the weight to get it to balance foward of the magwell differs accordingly. I think about everyone like to get their rifle balanced this way. |
| Front weight is of drop-in design. When I put it in, it was very tight, but after a while developed some play. So I used some RTV to glue it to the bottom handguard and did the same thing on my other two uppers. It holds the weight still, but can be easily taken appart if needed. |