she's just about done. just looking for an ambidextrous bolt carrier and off to 3 gun
Being a pretty tall person, I have a rather long pull and have fully extended the adjustable stock that came standard on our new NR VZ 58 7.62. So, to get my eye as close as possible to a potential EOtech single-123-battery sight on that rifle, I'm considering using either a set-up similar to the one above or the more-typical, CSA-brand receiver-rail/side-mount set-up that sits well above the dust cover (the set-up you see in almost all CSA-produced promotional videos).
The disadvantage of the former is of course that you cannot use the OEM iron sights while the sight is mounted.
The latter will allow the use of the OEM sights, but might hold the optic farther from my eye than I'd prefer.
So which way to go.
Is anyone using the latter set-up, as illustrated in those great photos by Prometheus, but with an EOtech sight in the most-rearward position possible on the rail, and, if so, what do you think of that set-up? (If I went that way, I'd cut the upper rail to the shortest length possible to still hold the sight properly. After that, there probably wouldn't be much of the upper rail still overhanging the dust cover. I suppose I could even
reverse the upper rail to get the sight exactly where I want it and then chop the extra length so that it wouldn't poke me in the eye, but that might be a bit overkill. Nevertheless, doing that
would eliminate any overhang over the dust cover.)
Does that rear-mount set-up actually allow the EOtech to sit farther back (closer to the eye of a person with a long pull) than what the CSA rail/side-mount set-up would allow?
Thanks for any advice.