Snowblind
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So, my Mini-14 came with a factory-made picatinny-style rail designed to fit over the breech, where the factory scope rings go.
I decided it was a nifty (and FREE in that it came with the gun) way to mount my red-dot sight. Originally I had thought of doing a scout-style setup by replacing the handguard with a railed one, but since I already had the rail, I gave this a go.
As of now it's set up like this:
However this presents a few interesting issues. For starters, I've had three spent casings get wedged in the action between the scope and the top of the action bar. I've owned the gun for about three weeks and put nearly 700 rounds through it, so 3/700 isn't bad (as this was the only malfunction to date), but still kind of annoying.
The other issue is that it seems to be acting as an unintentional brass deflector. The rail has a cutout, presumably for the brass to clear it, but I'm getting little gold impact marks all on the underside of the rail, and tiny flecks of brass all over the place after I'm done shooting. Not only that, but after the last run I found a few golden pockmarks in the lip of the scope itself! Could it be that the brass is shooting up into the rail before bouncing out? if the brass is hitting either the rail or the scope, that really can't be good for accuracy or the long-term life of the scope...
Thoughts?
I decided it was a nifty (and FREE in that it came with the gun) way to mount my red-dot sight. Originally I had thought of doing a scout-style setup by replacing the handguard with a railed one, but since I already had the rail, I gave this a go.
As of now it's set up like this:
However this presents a few interesting issues. For starters, I've had three spent casings get wedged in the action between the scope and the top of the action bar. I've owned the gun for about three weeks and put nearly 700 rounds through it, so 3/700 isn't bad (as this was the only malfunction to date), but still kind of annoying.
The other issue is that it seems to be acting as an unintentional brass deflector. The rail has a cutout, presumably for the brass to clear it, but I'm getting little gold impact marks all on the underside of the rail, and tiny flecks of brass all over the place after I'm done shooting. Not only that, but after the last run I found a few golden pockmarks in the lip of the scope itself! Could it be that the brass is shooting up into the rail before bouncing out? if the brass is hitting either the rail or the scope, that really can't be good for accuracy or the long-term life of the scope...
Thoughts?