NEA Stock Adaptor and Fibre Optic Front Sight Pics

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Here's a few pics of the new NEA items.

The stock adaptor is one piece and mounts with a single bolt to the receiver. It uses an AR receiver end plate to index the stock in the correct orientation.

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With Yankee Hill BUIS front and rear. When NEA releases it's barrel clamp rail you'll be able to mount both BUIS on fixed points.

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Here's a couple pics of the FO front sight. The flash pic makes the FO look orange. The VZ front sight post has a milled out slot in the threaded portion. On the one I removed from my rifle it was about .1 mm wider in the center of the post than at the ends. I used a flat bladed screw driver to spread the milled out section of the NEA sight a corresponding amount. Fit is nice and snug.

If you don't have a front sight tool, which I don't, you can make one by Dremeling a appropriately sized slot in the end of a bolt. You can then use a wrench on the bolt head to turn the sight in or out.

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iseestars said:
Does the front FO sight bottom out, and all is good? Or is a trip to the range required to sight it in? How do you lock the FO in the correct adjustment? Lok-tite?
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No, you don't bottom it out. I measured the height of the stock post and tried to match up the FO after I installed it. It will need to at least have the zero confirmed. Loc-tite will do the job.

Curtton said:
thanks stevo, your post is now in the vz58 optic sticky .
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Okey, dokey. I'll have to remember not to remove those pics from my Photobucket account, or do you re-host them when you add to the sticky?
 
looks kinda chubby no? wheres Richard Simmons when ya need him. Looks quality, but hefty whats it weight? Ill be able to judge it better with a folder and a scope attached. And a further away image, hope it fits my needs. It will be all worth it if i can get a scope on it though.
 
Clobbersauras said:
Stevo, could you do us a favor and mount your Aimpoint micro to the stock adapter? If you do will it give you co witness?
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I don't have a Micro, but rather a Bushnell TRS-25. It's pretty much the same size as the Micro.

Since the rear rail is on the same plane as the handguard, it will co-witness. However, there's no way you'll be able to get your eye in the right place with the stock that high. I'll put my FastFire on it tonight to see how it looks. It's taller than the Micro, so if it doesn't work, the Micro won't.

A "low-tube" adaptor with the rail in the same place would allow a proper sight picture and co-witness.

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looks kinda chubby no? wheres Richard Simmons when ya need him. Looks quality, but hefty whats it weight? Ill be able to judge it better with a folder and a scope attached. And a further away image, hope it fits my needs. It will be all worth it if i can get a scope on it though.
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It's aluminum and can't weigh more than a few ounces. You'll be able to judge what with a folder and scope attached? The pic with the BUIS mounted isn't far enough away for you? What are you expecting to see?
 
Stevo said:
I don't have a Micro, but rather a Bushnell TRS-25. It's pretty much the same size as the Micro.

Since the rear rail is on the same plane as the handguard, it will co-witness. However, there's no way you'll be able to get your eye in the right place with the stock that high. I'll put my FastFire on it tonight to see how it looks. It's taller than the Micro, so if it doesn't work, the Micro won't.

A "low-tube" adaptor with the rail in the same place would allow a proper sight picture and co-witness.



It's aluminum and can't weigh more than a few ounces. You'll be able to judge what with a folder and scope attached? The pic with the BUIS mounted isn't far enough away for you? What are you expecting to see?
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The whole rifle, as ive seen some folding stock adapters seem to have way to much metal and parts in between the mount and the stock adapter and ends up adding way to much for a good lop on alot of stocks, and seems to make that ability to fold pointless. I have tabs on three different adapters and sorry to say some of my deciding factor is gonna be how it looks. So far the stormwurks adapter seems to be the most slimmed down. I want to have a scope though, so it turns it into two choices. I really don't want a foot of crap between my receiver and extension tube. I mean nothing against any product, it just matters to me, i want to see this mount with an actual scope on the quick detach mount, before i decide what way to go with my rifle. So far the NEA is ahead, it just looks a little bulky in the pictures probally due to the burris though, im hoping the folding mechanism doesnt make it frakensteinish. Evrything is smaller in person though.
 
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You need a riser with a mini RDS on the adaptor rail. You can see the dot if you really try, but it's not comfortable or really practical. FWIW, you can remove the receiver cover with the FastFire left in position on the rail. Also, I had to run the stock out a couple extra clicks to get my face far enough behind the FF.

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ridgearms said:
Charles, are there any plans to make a rear sight that will sit on the stock adapter/rail that will allow you to use your stock front sight for a super long sight radius? ala tech sights for example.
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Use back up irons my friend. When i made this adapter, back up irons are what i had in mine. The existing irons are horrible, yes we made fiber sights for those who are purists but the back up irons are hard to beat from a functional perspective.
 
seeing as how your replacing the old sites, has anyone though about making some sort of custom front site base that doesn't have the old site but retains the bayo lug, and maybe even update it to use some new kind of bayonet. just a thought.
 
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