Has anybody gotten their hands on the MBUS® Pro - Magpul® Back-Up Sight – Rear and had a chance to really test it and use/abuse it yet?
(Last I heard they were coming out anytime. I haven't kept up with them since).![]()
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Has anybody gotten their hands on the MBUS® Pro - Magpul® Back-Up Sight – Rear and had a chance to really test it and use/abuse it yet?
(Last I heard they were coming out anytime. I haven't kept up with them since).![]()
Just got an email from Magpul saying these are available. It looks like a pretty cool design, I will admit.
LMT......Quality
I have a YHM flip up rear site and Ive been really happy with it. Its prob 5 years old now.
I bought a troy DOA sight and it works great for me
I purchased a Hahn Precision BUIS a while back. Low profile and simple. No problems as yet.
http://shop.hahn-precision.com//BUIS-Rear-ASAB0506.htm
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FWIW I sent an email to Centurion a few days ago asking when the diopter sights will become available again. I received a response today that says they no longer sell them.
What I'm currently running are Gen 2 MBUS. They seem to work well enough. In order to get sighted in properly I had to shift the rear sight quite a bit to the left, but I understand that just happens on some guns. My OCD doesn't like it being off center, but I'll just have to live with it. I don't know why, but a lot of the time when I'm sighting through my irons it looks like the left side of the rear aperture is flat on the left side instead of round. When I hold the rifle up and look through the rear sight with good light shining through I can see it's perfectly round, so I don't know what's causing me to see it like that. It doesn't seem to affect my shooting but it's irritating. I'm debating trying something different in the near future, but I haven't decided if I want to stay with folders or go fixed. If I stay with folders I'll try the new Magpuls. If I go fixed then it'll probably be a DD A1.5 set.
Last edited by SteveL; 09-11-13 at 00:33.
Steve
One thing that annoyed me about the DD A1.5 that caused me to buy the Magpul Pro rear BUIS is that it is NOT same-plane aperture.
I did replace the aperture with one from Blackhawk!, but I just don't feel good about it no-matter how "pretty" it looks. It was the only same-plane A2 style that had aperture openings near mil-spec size.
On an SBR, you may get well over 5 MOA vertical shift using a regular A2 aperture.
I bought the MBUS Pro because (I don't have it yet, so this is just what I read...):
-Dual aperture arrangement with same-plane.
-Spring/detent keeps it up, and apertures in-place...if it gets a hard slam, it may fold (although Magpul states it passed a 6-axis drop est on a loaded out M4 without folding...), but won't break. I think of it like the mirrors on a car.
-Adjustment wheel is not easily turned, and is not "in the way" like A2 style wheels.
-Does not have a useless elevation adjustment.
-Same weight as the DD.
-I feel like if what I read above is correct, it can be run "BUIS up" 100% of the time if you want to with zero detriment points for that usage.
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