rangerruck
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I wasn't sure where to put this, so I'll start here. I was at the gunshow today in Houston, and at my friend Leo's table, and he introduced me to a dude there. His name is Nelson, and he is the pres of Texas Weapon Systems. www.texasweaponsystems.com , 512.791.7783. He is a shooter, and likes ak's, he is also a metal dude, machine worker, an engineer, and inventor, and he had his whole family there as well, don't see that very much!!! Anyway, he has invented a top rail, that 'floats' from the rear tang of an ak, over the top of your ak, up to the leaf site of your ak. It is a standard milspec 1913 rail, that uses all stainless steel pins, screws, springs, etc., the rail is hard anodized aluminum. The genius of it is the dogleg bend over the top, to the normal rear site of your ak; this allows the rail to sit right over the top of the ak cover. You can use a huge varmint scope if you like, up to about a 44 or 46 mm objective, and keep it very low mounted, without the front bell touching the gas tube of the weapon. you can put multiple stuff on the rail as well, it is very long. in a pinch, since it is as low as the normal rear leaf site of the ak, if you took all the stuff off of it, you can look right down the top of the rail, and still easily see your front site, to shoot in a pinch if you had to.
When you unhook the rear latch, it still is connected to the leaf spring holes, so it opens up like your car hood! when you latch it back down, you do not lose or change your zero. You can also put on your own sights on it, if you like.
He has been beta testing it for a while, and this is it , the final product. He has also had it beta tested by a bunch of ak shooters, side by side, with the dpms top rail, and the Krebs Kustom rail; it not only does a better job than those, but it is cheaper.
It will also fit a variety of ak's, including Saigas, and even side folders with a drop tang, like Polish tantals. it comes with two diff s.s. screws for the rear tang, in case you have wood or synthetic. he is also currently working on two new products along with this; a rear peepsite, that attaches to the rear of the rail, and a two piece front site; looks just like a regular ak sight, but the top piece with the ears fits into a sliding dovetail rail, that allow it to slide left and right, for zeroing. The genius here is, normally when you move your front sight on a ak, the post moves but the ears don't, so that your front post, can look ' out of center' inside the post ears, and be quite distracting, even causing you to look slower through the sight ears, because the left and right uneveness is throwing you off. No more with this little baby. I saw both of his prototypes of the rear peep and the front sight today; very well built and thought out.
Anyway, I know when I get all the materials I want to convert my Saigas, and put green dots on them, this rail is going on them as well.
Go check out his website, and also, there is an ongoing discussion of this product over on www.ar15.com , with some of the testers as well, just go to the ak47 section, and check out the 'optics and accessories' thread.
I myself looked through / over the rail, he had attached to an STG 2000, and I did a fast shoulder , with the rail and front site only, with the rear peep site prototype, and with a quick detach acog; All I can say is, wow!!!! fast and impressive.
Also he told me, and if you like, we can do a group buy. They are normally 129. a piece, but if we get 20 or more together, he will go 99 a piece, he told me he has to make a run of 500 or more at a time, to get his labor costs down, which is why they are normally 129 each. but even so, they are still cheaper than the other supposedly best two rails out there.
Okay, so if interested, jump in line here, and email me back, and once we get at least 20, we can do this thing.
When you unhook the rear latch, it still is connected to the leaf spring holes, so it opens up like your car hood! when you latch it back down, you do not lose or change your zero. You can also put on your own sights on it, if you like.
He has been beta testing it for a while, and this is it , the final product. He has also had it beta tested by a bunch of ak shooters, side by side, with the dpms top rail, and the Krebs Kustom rail; it not only does a better job than those, but it is cheaper.
It will also fit a variety of ak's, including Saigas, and even side folders with a drop tang, like Polish tantals. it comes with two diff s.s. screws for the rear tang, in case you have wood or synthetic. he is also currently working on two new products along with this; a rear peepsite, that attaches to the rear of the rail, and a two piece front site; looks just like a regular ak sight, but the top piece with the ears fits into a sliding dovetail rail, that allow it to slide left and right, for zeroing. The genius here is, normally when you move your front sight on a ak, the post moves but the ears don't, so that your front post, can look ' out of center' inside the post ears, and be quite distracting, even causing you to look slower through the sight ears, because the left and right uneveness is throwing you off. No more with this little baby. I saw both of his prototypes of the rear peep and the front sight today; very well built and thought out.
Anyway, I know when I get all the materials I want to convert my Saigas, and put green dots on them, this rail is going on them as well.
Go check out his website, and also, there is an ongoing discussion of this product over on www.ar15.com , with some of the testers as well, just go to the ak47 section, and check out the 'optics and accessories' thread.
I myself looked through / over the rail, he had attached to an STG 2000, and I did a fast shoulder , with the rail and front site only, with the rear peep site prototype, and with a quick detach acog; All I can say is, wow!!!! fast and impressive.
Also he told me, and if you like, we can do a group buy. They are normally 129. a piece, but if we get 20 or more together, he will go 99 a piece, he told me he has to make a run of 500 or more at a time, to get his labor costs down, which is why they are normally 129 each. but even so, they are still cheaper than the other supposedly best two rails out there.
Okay, so if interested, jump in line here, and email me back, and once we get at least 20, we can do this thing.
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