ok , so i'm getting old and can't seem to focus my eyes up close any more ... so the peep rear sight is really really blurry... Solution? red dot !!! but wait , can't fold the gun with red dot installed !!! solution DQ mount !!! NOT SO FAST!!
Not sure if anyone noticed yet , but the upper rail on a gen 2 is not flat ... that's right , what sounds at first like a good idea , was not executed quite properly...
if you look at the two halves of the picatinny , they look more like this ^ .
it's a little exaggerated , but ultimately it's not flat !! and the result is a wobbly mount that could be tightened in different lateral positions .
this may have some consequences in repeat-ability on taking the mount on and off, and ultimately accuracy.
Granted this gun is not a long range rifle , but still , it would have been nice if Kel-tec had done a little better job in he molding and provided a flat rail.
possible fix???? maybe ! i took the hand-guard off my gun and put it flat on a large piece of sand paper... i worked it back and forward trying to keep it as flat as possible and watched the center start to flatten out ....
is it perfect ? no ! but at least the base of the mount seems to fit flush(er) to the rail ... i marked the rail for position and mounted the red dot.
I mounted a laser as well and matched the dots , I then took the mount off and on a few times and , so far the dot returns to the exact same spot every time i mount the red dot .... so we'll see if that fixes the issue
as for the red dot , i just mount it on the other side when the gun is folded so it stays with the gun .....
I would have preferred seeing Kel-tec come up with an aluminum insert for the top hand-guard rail ... after all these can be found for real cheap from china ... and that would have still been a better solution IMHO.
I'll go to the range tomorrow and i'll do some test firing to validate if this "FIX" actually worked.
on a side note , do this at your own risk ... my rail section is now flatter but it also is not quite the same color as the rest of the green stock .. a little darker.
if i had the time and the machining tools , I would cut a groove in the hand-guard and fit in an aluminum rail section ....
Not sure if anyone noticed yet , but the upper rail on a gen 2 is not flat ... that's right , what sounds at first like a good idea , was not executed quite properly...
if you look at the two halves of the picatinny , they look more like this ^ .
it's a little exaggerated , but ultimately it's not flat !! and the result is a wobbly mount that could be tightened in different lateral positions .
this may have some consequences in repeat-ability on taking the mount on and off, and ultimately accuracy.
Granted this gun is not a long range rifle , but still , it would have been nice if Kel-tec had done a little better job in he molding and provided a flat rail.
possible fix???? maybe ! i took the hand-guard off my gun and put it flat on a large piece of sand paper... i worked it back and forward trying to keep it as flat as possible and watched the center start to flatten out ....
is it perfect ? no ! but at least the base of the mount seems to fit flush(er) to the rail ... i marked the rail for position and mounted the red dot.
I mounted a laser as well and matched the dots , I then took the mount off and on a few times and , so far the dot returns to the exact same spot every time i mount the red dot .... so we'll see if that fixes the issue
as for the red dot , i just mount it on the other side when the gun is folded so it stays with the gun .....
I would have preferred seeing Kel-tec come up with an aluminum insert for the top hand-guard rail ... after all these can be found for real cheap from china ... and that would have still been a better solution IMHO.
I'll go to the range tomorrow and i'll do some test firing to validate if this "FIX" actually worked.
on a side note , do this at your own risk ... my rail section is now flatter but it also is not quite the same color as the rest of the green stock .. a little darker.
if i had the time and the machining tools , I would cut a groove in the hand-guard and fit in an aluminum rail section ....
