Originally Posted by
HKGuns
You can't shave off enough weight to allow for all of that crap on one rifle. My first thought was to try 3M contact cement. But after reading this, my advice is not to put all that garbage on one rifle and make up your own mind, based on experience and use about what is truly necessary.
HKGuns:
Well, I agree completely. Part of this concept involves stripping out heavy gear for lighter versions that have most of the same capabilities. For example, this build has a TA31 (4x ACOG) mounted on a reverse cantilever mount as a primary optic, and a RMR in an offset mount. This setup weighs in at about 17 oz. The lightest LPVO I have is a Kahles 1-6x in a Scalarworks mount, weighing about 23 oz. The Kahles setup gives you excellent glass and 2x extra magnification. The ACOG gives you pretty good glass, 6 oz. less weight, and much faster transitions from 1x to max (in this case, 4x) and back. Also, using a RDS like the RMR gives you a chance at passive NV sight pictures.
There's a lot more to this game of AR Legos than the above. I'm just playing mix-and-match until I get something that seems to work.
One of my downfalls is I am stubborn about BUIS: if I can get them on, I will. It adds extra weight, and time, and money, and gets me involved starting threads like this, but I want them.
Any comments more than welcome.
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