I must be missing something, but wouldn’t you want to avoid putting stress on a clamp-on gas block? Those sling points might be OK on a pinned gas block, but seem like a bad idea on a friction-fit item…
I’m all over VLTOR’s products in general, but I’m not tracking the pic rail on a flip up that would block the sight if it were used? I guess it differentiates this from the PRi’s out there and all…
Sure. Doesn’t a rail look nicer than a big ole slab of metal up there?? It does to me. Looks are of course a personal thing so I don’t fault you if you don’t like the looks of it.
YHM also wobbles, looks like a turd and barely holds onto the barrel (I know as I have installed a couple).
There are several “SDI” names out there so I am not sure who you are talking about. If it is Simply Dynamic, then he was issued it by BW and really had no choice in the matter.
FWIW, the PRI I just got last week has no wobble – either side-to-side (as I’ve seen in two previous I’ve owned) or front-to-back (but they’ve never wobbled front-to-back). I don’t know if I got lucky with this one or if they’ve improved their machining process or program.
Unfortunately, that improvement is offset by poor locating of the gas tube pin hole and the gas port hole. The gas tube pin hole is just a little bit low, preventing good alignment with the gas tube pin hole. I had to file quite a taper into the pin to get it to ‘jump the ledge’ and insert fully.
They are also .040 inch rearward from all other folding sights and removed sight bases that I measured. The gas port hole is of course large enough to compensate, but nevertheless the gas tube is further back in the gas key.
I finally got ahold of one, and it seems pretty squared away. I like that it doesn’t lock up, but that it is still a pretty positive lock into place. I’ll figure out more about it once I get a chance to play around with one that installed.
As already noted, the price isn’t cheap, but its inline with others, and it also appears to be a nice step forward in product development for gasblock/ sight assemblies.
I’ll buy that though LT’s levers and Magpul’s rail covers make it a non-issue to me. Not a big deal since there’s always the lo-pro VLTOR GB and Troy front for the rest of us.
a lot of price justification going on with this one. here and elsewhere.
I would not say the price is inline with others, more like it is in front of that line.
nice , but not that nice.
