Norinco CQA front sight misaligned - works with BUIS, keeping the rifle

[geologist]

Mine was waaaaaaaay to the right side. I was also concerned if the Magpul BUIS wouldn't have the travel that the carry handle did. - guess what? my Magpul buis isn't as far to the side as my carry handle. In fact its nearly centred.

hmmmmmmmmm.... o-well. All is well that ends well.

Same for mine with the Magpul BUIS. The aperture has to be set to the right but it works and co-witnesses with my RDS so I'm keeping the rifle and not sending it back for warranty work.

I'll stop whining now.

 

[CarbineOne]

Then I saw from yourself...

My remarks were not meant to be inflammatory, if anything they were defensive to the fact that any rifle can have it's share of manufacturing defects (the suggestion that only Norinco's have problems). I also saw the Stag rifles (I believe it was one of the piston guns and a few of the DI's) that had it's front sight slightly canted to the left (I would say about 11:30-40 depending on the gun). One of the staff brought out others to check if the others had the problem, which they did, and thus the customer ended up getting a refund (I think). There is no perfect QC, but that is why Stag Arms has a lifetime warranty, and one reason why I am the owner of two Stag rifles (and a few other companies as well).

I am not the buyer who showed it to ATR. I was merely in the vicinity of the conversation on the return of the rifle.

 

[dangertree]

My remarks were not meant to be inflammatory, if anything they were defensive to the fact that any rifle can have it's share of manufacturing defects (the suggestion that only Norinco's have problems). I also saw the Stag rifles (I believe it was one of the piston guns and a few of the DI's) that had it's front sight slightly canted to the left (I would say about 11:30-40 depending on the gun). One of the staff brought out others to check if the others had the problem, which they did, and thus the customer ended up getting a refund (I think). There is no perfect QC, but that is why Stag Arms has a lifetime warranty, and one reason why I am the owner of two Stag rifles (and a few other companies as well).

I am not the buyer who showed it to ATR. I was merely in the vicinity of the conversation on the return of the rifle.

Cheers Man! I'm hoping you can see where I made the assumption, and it was only an assumption.

Stag Arms in late 2007 developed an industry leading, 100% new, jig system that ensures VERY straight, VERY repeatable FSB installations. So accurate that we can often exchange FSBs from one rifle to the next, which is generally impossible on an AR15. Prior to then, we saw normal variance for an AR15, as per Colt (same system), in the mechanical zero. Since the new jib system was developed, any rifle we've tried here has zerod to the very center. This is why is seemed strange at first to hear the customer issue at TSE (seeing that post from the employee of an apparent competitor made clear what was up).

I will say though, the test of zero has to involve bullets and a target. My own 8R when I look at it closely, seems like the sight might be slightly left, however, the zero is dead dead center. This is an optical illusion from the front sight, which is not asymetric by design (release button on the left of the sight is positioned higher than the flat portion on the right). I'll try and take some pics, which are worth 1000 words in this case.