You should be find on the DD rear. It is what survived both destruction I mean torture! tests they have done with the m4v1. Although the T1 could have take some of the impact off if the rear sight at times
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The sights are great for target shooting. Not worthy of a combat rifle however. The gun went flying from waist height. A forged A2 would have chipped the cement floor.
LMT is aluminum too. And they have that retarded knob that's right in the way of a 10 oclock light. I have one of LMT's sights on a non-light mounted gun.
All MY rifles end up with fixed gas block/front sights even when every one on the planet seems to be trying to talk me into flip ups.
Now my wifes rifle on the other hand she wanted folding and she gets what she wants. her rifle has rail mounted yhm steel flip ups on it now. they are bulky and ugly but they seem very sturdy. I think i like the troy or magpul offering more.
What about a Tangodown FSP? I know it has that cutout for a light but I'm pretty sure its steel.
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Dare i say it: a dissipator style build with fsb pinned to barrel in front of free float rail? But the sight won't fold for optics. Would work great with an aimpoint. Middy gas of course;)
Edit: I think IG had a thread about a similar setup a few months ago?
Has anyone tested to see how the rosch light/sight would stand up to something like this? It might be the best do both worlds after all
I have several pairs of the Magpul MBUS sights. Though I won't be dropping them anytime soon, I suspect that they will hold up well.
This has been a pet peeve of mine as well.
What I'd really like is a dissapator fixed front sight base set at a 45 degree angle to the right in front of the rail and use a non-folding rear offset sight with adjustment like a dueck. I'm thinking you can just ream out a .625 front fixed sight to fit barrel contour, shave the bayonet mount flat and drill and tap for that area for set screws, dimple the barrel and mount it like a low gas block. If it doesn't work it is easy enough to remove.
I've used a larue J-Point RDS scope mount half for a scope/right RDS offset combo, but I just dont like the height of the RDS as you break cheekweld and my older eyes are having the dreaded "reader glasses and astigmatism" issues making irons more attractive to me. Problem is there are only KAC and Dueck for offset mount on the front sight and KAC's fold, removing the "back-up sight needed RIGHT NOW" option.
I've been hopefully waiting for some keymod or M-lok sight to be released that is useable on the right 45 offset. BCM keymod rail doesnt allow this to happen for front sights without some sort of fiddling with height on the mounts as a 1913 piccatiny rail section butts right up against the top rail that is raised and will not allow enough room to mount rail items. Looks like I'm going to wait some more for that.
Maybe I'll pick up a used FSB and play around with this concept a little more in a couple weeks.