I've been trying to work on this for a few months. I am having a hell of a time - last week I broke a bone in my foot, then I got into a car accident.
That being said, here goes.
Personally, I think that magnified optics belong on the main, top receiver rail, and RDS should be offset. A flip up/flip to side magnifier can work, but there are problems with that system (e.g., you lose the precision of a 2MOA dot when you magnify it to 6 MOA with a 3x magnifier).
MAWLs are cool, but overrated.
Dbal-D2 is an impressive brick, but the only thing I can justify its position on is the Tavor X95. The rearward balance of the bullpup almost justifies use of that thing. A gentleman from the South put it beautifully recently (on another thread):
'For CQB as you mentioned, it's going to help just a bit also as the D2 is a "big ol girl" and tends to off balance a rifle depending on where you put it. I've watched students at our classes who had too much stuff on their carbines have to practically do whole body movements to bring the rifle up a few hours into training. Not all the D2's fault there, they had all kinds of excess shit (IMO) on their rifles which made them off balanced.'
I've been playing around with the Surefire Vampire series of lights, helmet mounted, to do the same job. It keeps the weight off the rifle.
That's it for me. Got to take my meds.
'That whole effort was held together by sweat, shame, and a tiny bit of pride.' -- Son of Commander Paisley
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