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For the price I'd expect them to lock up well with a very low failure rate.
I agree with you, that sounds kinda disappointing.
My Troy rear sight has the slightest amount of wiggle, but it is still rock solid.
Has anyone seen a folding sight that doesn't have even the slightest bit of wiggle?
I would hardly call it wiggle at that, as it's so insignificant...
Exactly - I have Troy front and rear BUIS mounted on my SOCOM-16, which as you all know puts out a lot more pop than a 5.56. They were dead on when I mounted them and remain that way to this moment and I have a few thousand rounds underneath them. Everything mechanical can fail, but to suggest that Troy BUIS are "prone" to failure is a bit over the top. The only folding sight that raised my eyebrows with the amount of play were some MI's I saw mounted on a Bushmaster M4 quite a while ago - they were literally wobbly. I'm no engineer, so I can't tell you if it was an out of spec rail, an overly thin mounting screw, a lemon, or a combination. What I do know is that everything from toasters, to socket wrenches, to BUIS can have a product that sneaks past QC. The BUIS, (be they Troy, MI, YHM, etc) is no different and at the same time is not an overly-complex mechanical device. In many cases, out of spec rails, build or heaven forbid - operator error can be the culprit....Then the Internet hype kicks in......
Thankfully, I ignored it when I bought my SOCOM-16, (unreliable, out of spec, inaccurate, loud, no USGI parts) - it's been a joy....My Troy BUIS - now three of them have been the same....
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