John Leslie
New member
Got my new DTech .17 Rem. AR yesterday!! Wooooh, Ooooh, she's a pretty one!!!! Don't have any pictures to post yet, but it's an A2 flattop, 22" fluted stainless MolyCoated barrel, DPMS lower, vented handguard, a Rock River tuned trigger, all camo coated in Max4 HD. Oooohhh, yeah!!
But I was disappointed when I tried to put a LaRue SPR 1.5 mount on the top rail. The cam levers would not rotate anywhere near closed. This scope/mount goes on and off my Bushmaster VS easily, so I know there's no problems with the mount. What I suspect is that the camo coating on the rail is actually thick enough to prevent the cams from closing. Scraping the camo off the spot where the cams close didn't solve the problem, either. LaRue mounts are extremely well made, but their close tolerances prevent mounting on this camo-dipped rail.
No big problem, as I was able to put a set of 1/2" BMAS risers with some Leupold QRW rings on the rail, even though I had to use a plastic-tipped hammer to tap them up and down the rail a few times. Anyone else ever had problems putting mounts on a camo-dipped rail? Anybody know a simple solution I'm not thinking of?
But I was disappointed when I tried to put a LaRue SPR 1.5 mount on the top rail. The cam levers would not rotate anywhere near closed. This scope/mount goes on and off my Bushmaster VS easily, so I know there's no problems with the mount. What I suspect is that the camo coating on the rail is actually thick enough to prevent the cams from closing. Scraping the camo off the spot where the cams close didn't solve the problem, either. LaRue mounts are extremely well made, but their close tolerances prevent mounting on this camo-dipped rail.
No big problem, as I was able to put a set of 1/2" BMAS risers with some Leupold QRW rings on the rail, even though I had to use a plastic-tipped hammer to tap them up and down the rail a few times. Anyone else ever had problems putting mounts on a camo-dipped rail? Anybody know a simple solution I'm not thinking of?