Thread: Open sights and suppressors

@cheeseclip, I've played with several options in this space.

Red dot will be by far the easiest option.

With open sights, sight radius is your friend, so I moved the rear sight from the barrel mounting position to the "chamber" to increase it.

I initially tried a DIY, smaller diameter suppressor, but was never really happy with the accuracy I got from that. Even with the smaller diameter can, I ended up having to make a riser block for the factory front sight blade, so that it was visible over the suppressor. Obviously if you want max sight radius you should be looking at a forward can (assuming you want a front blade).

The other major hurdle was the design of the BA13 stock. The Monte Carlo type cheek riser is meant to get your head in the correct position for a scope, but sucks when you are using open sights.

I have a functional setup at this stage, with a Skinner sight kinda grafted onto the rear end of the picatinny rail, and the front blade on a small riser block, but to be honest I would prefer both the rear and front sight to be around 5mm higher for better natural alignment. That is on the to-do list for machining, not sure when I will get to it...

Using a red-dot will bypass all of those headaches. Something like a Holosun 507c v2 reflex sight would be just about perfect IMHO.