There's absolutely nothing wrong with the good old quad. It's still a bombproof mounting system. Nobody will claim that mlok is just as strong as it, but it is significantly lighter for people who don't mind a less secure mounting system being the trade-off compared to the quad. Yeah, you should probably use blue loctite on the mounting screws, but it's not like it's permanent. And it still is pretty fucking secure
Why the fuck do people shill MLOK so hard...
Isaiah Ortiz
Josiah Cruz
Also mlok rails just feel so fucking good under your hand. A quality rail is light, still strong, and just has that feel
Easton Turner
>If you’re planning on hanging a light or laser off your rail you should be doing it off of the top picatinny section on it
Why is that?
Austin Powell
Laser it would matter because you need the laser to hold zero and there's nothing better than picatinny for that. The light doesn't matter though, you can use mlok. You could use duct tape if you wanted to as long as it stuck, there's no real gain for mounting it on the picatinny section.
John Collins
>Laser it would matter because you need the laser to hold zero
Gotcha. In that case, wouldn't it be arguably better to hang lasers from the top of the upper, since part of the benefit of (almost all) mlok handguards is that they're free floating and not actually in contact with the barrel? Or is it so marginal it's not worth worrying about at the distances lasers are used? But if that's the case would the difference between picatinny and mlok really matter? Does it make a difference that most accessories still need to be mounted to a picatinny rail that's mounted on mlok?
Jace Watson
Yeah that's what the guy you originally replied to was saying, and he was right about it for lasers but not so much for lights. Anything you care about holding zero in the slightest should be mounted directly to a picatinny section, and it's not really because of anything except that the physical connection is much stronger to a picatinny section. It will move around much less under the vibration of recoil and withstand getting bumped against something much better. How much it matters I can't really tell you, that's a personal valuation. That said, my personal valuation is that you want whatever you're using to gauge where your bullets are going to impact to be as accurate as you can provide for. In a vacuum it's still important to have the most confidence you can that your bullet will be placed as close to exactly where you're pointing it as is possible. This is obviously way more important if you're using a laser and nods, where the laser might become your primary point of aim even out to 100m or further.
tl;dr: picatinny more secure in all aspects for holding zero, precise zero important at all ranges
Ethan Phillips
I don't have the knees to do it anymore.
James Gutierrez
nice patch, iwouldliketoknowmore/10
Jayden Ortiz
Why dont you like it?
Andrew Martinez
*wipes sweat off brow*