…or so (I wasn’t counting but for the last few) but the correct optic mount for the U.S. Rifle, Caliber 30, M1, also known as the Garand Rifle, is now available for sale. We’re waiting to ship until next week, when I’m supposed to have the illustrated instructions ready, but the product is all ready to go. In addition to making bullets, I’ll be burning the oil all weekend editing images – we try to make the illustrations serve as a more or less stand-alone picture storybook, for them that gets their information better if it’s visual.
Pretty, methinks, though I may be slightly prejudiced.
Use any IER (Scout) scope, reflex or holographic sight. Pistol scopes may be used also, but need more eye relief and you’ll be mounting them as far forward as they’ll go. The scout scopes are a perfect match, as is the Aimpoint Micro, Comp, et al, which also allow co witnessing.
If the rifle is good with its iron sights, it’s just as good, only faster and in a far wider range of lighting conditions, with a good optic, even a good 1x optic.
There has been a general assumption that a dot sight is a close quarters sight. That is true, in the same sense that iron sights are for close quarters, except of course that the dot sight is a vastly superior system. The dot sight still has its advantages on the longer shots, out to your iron sight maximum range. More in-depth info on electronic sights here.
That’s the T1 on the new UltiMAK M12. Now you can punch more holes, in more things, faster, under more lighting conditions, with more confidence.
The weight of the mount body, clamps and screws is 6.16 ounces. The walnut handguard with retainer clip, that the mount replaces, weighs about 2.24 ounces, so the net installed weight is 3.92 ounces. Your figure may vary depending on your handguard. The mount clamps to a tapered barrel, so just like our M8 mount for the M-14, it needs a recoil lug to prevent the mount “falling off the taper”. The M1 has that rear barrel band right there, pinned to the barrel, hence the M12’s front clamp has been extended a few thousandths beyond the front of the mount body, to engage the barrel band. It uses two discreet clamping positions, like all our mounts, so there is never an issue with minor variations in barrel profiles. In this case, as with our M6 for the 30 Carbine, it is cantilevered for some distance behind the rear clamp.
Mention this post in checkout at UltiMAK and you’ll get a 10% early adopters, The-View-From-North-Central-Idaho discount. Good through Jan, 2011 – see update below. Then send the difference to the Second Amendment Foundation.
You saw it here first (unless you were on the UltiMAK site within the last 24 hours). This is the numero uno press release, right nghyaw!
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Update, Jan 11, 2011; I posted this before we’d had a chance at a meeting to determine price. We’re changing the price to $185.00. No on-line orders have been charged as yet, so all orders will be automatically charged at the lower price, and those who mentioned, or mention, this post will receive the discount from the lower price. Discount offer good through January, 2011. Any walk-ins that occured before this notice, let us know and we’ll refund the balance. Thanks, everyone, for the big response!
