Can I remove red dot, reinstall, still accurate?
#1
Typical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Can I remove red dot, reinstall, still accurate?
Trying to fit my ar15 in pelican case, have med HT rail and inexpensive red dot attached. Sighted gun in and it is shooting well but gun doesn't fit in case very well w red dot on. Can I remove it to travel then re install rail and sight without messing up accuracy or poi ?
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: gilbert az
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Trying to fit my ar15 in pelican case, have med HT rail and inexpensive red dot attached. Sighted gun in and it is shooting well but gun doesn't fit in case very well w red dot on. Can I remove it to travel then re install rail and sight without messing up accuracy or poi ?
#9
I wouldn't do it as regular practice just because I bought a case too small, but I have had pretty good luck using a UTG (CHEAP AND CRAPPY) rail riser under a Bushnell TRS-25 as a QD set up. I use a torque wrench to reinstall it (bought a T handle fixed torque model meant for servicing bicycles) so I get the same tension every time, and I put it in the same slot on the rail every time. Just be sure to hold it firmly forward against the front edge of the slot to be sure it is positioned the same each time.
I've even had pretty good luck with scopes coming back to the same zero, usually within a quarter MOA, when doing this. Pic rails are a lot easier to index consistently than some other QD mounts have been in history, so there's not much deviation which can happen.
Try it a few times at the range while you're there, no sense in theorizing or asking hypothetical questions - you own it, take it to the range, put it on, zero it, take it off, put it back on, try it, repeat a few times.
It's a red dot sight afterall, it's not a precision aiming device, you might not even notice a quarter or half MOA shift.
I've even had pretty good luck with scopes coming back to the same zero, usually within a quarter MOA, when doing this. Pic rails are a lot easier to index consistently than some other QD mounts have been in history, so there's not much deviation which can happen.
Try it a few times at the range while you're there, no sense in theorizing or asking hypothetical questions - you own it, take it to the range, put it on, zero it, take it off, put it back on, try it, repeat a few times.
It's a red dot sight afterall, it's not a precision aiming device, you might not even notice a quarter or half MOA shift.