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Patent Pocket Reviews How can you make the best gun in Japan better? Well according to young Fred by giving it a front sight, and, before you can say "Conceited Bloomin Yorkshireman" here we have the old Smokey's flip up sight. I always wanted to retain a totally tactically purposeful feel to my Knight's - to keep it in line with the gun it is based on - and that had initially called for the removal of the old triangular front sight to mount the silencer. However, trial and error has shown that relying on the back up iron sights on the ACOG copy is a pretty second rate way of aiming in the closer game. So, having bitten the bullet and decided to fit a front sight I was presented with only a few options. First, and cheapest, was to buy another Marui flip up rear sight to machine into shape. Not all that hard, but it just did not appeal. Second was the First Factory flip ups, but as they retail at over 20,000 yen each for front and rear that was well out. Third we had the G+G rail/barrel/ replacement system which First were trotting out at a reasonable price, not cheap, but reasonable. But it was then that Fred dropped this Smokey's job under my nose. Not all that cheap at 8800 yen but, all metal construction, adjustable and it folds. Though here we hit one of the snags. Though it technically will fit to any A1/A2/M4 front end, it is really designed to be used with the First Factory Short Piece or Barrel set, which adds another 4000 yen to the price tag. However, as this piece effectively comes out into a standard thread (thus dooming my thoughts of some SOG silencer action at the outset), it makes attaching a wealth of suppressors or 3rd party barrel extensions a shade easier.
Easily adjustable left/right and up/down the sight is pretty basic, but does not look out of place at all because of its black (well dark grey/brown) finish. I've seen one mounted to a Bushmaster combo (on an A2 base), which looked the hounds, and on any M4/SR16 which has pretensions of being an urban sniper type, it looks like it was born to the job (not that I am biased or anything). No point in scaling this one as it is clearly a Ronseal job. ^_^ |
