A Small Rant about AR mounts ahead of April Fools Day

BobinNC

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    So I just bought a nice Trijicon Credo 1-6x24 FFP Mil Red, all of 19 oz of it. And I got it for a steal of a deal. That aside, I knew I need some new 1 piece mounts that didn't weigh a ton, so I let my fingers do the walking in the digital marketplace.

    And while shopping my angst was aroused by many a well known purveyor's of said mounts. Why?? Because many simply do not list the weight of their creations. I mean like come on. Weight or lack thereof is immensely important in cobbling together a good scope and mount combination. The prices are easy enough to find, but weight seems mysteriously absent in many cases.

    I first went to Trijicon since mating a scope with the makers own mounts seemed like a good idea at first. Well not so good. Trijicon's 1.59" High Cantilevered Mount caught my eye. They gave spec's on everything, except the weight.

    Moving on to Nightforce, they had a nice X-Treme Duty 30mm 1.54" 0 MOA Ultramount #A699. But the weight of the dang thing is apparently a military secret as it is nowhere listed.

    Badger Ordnance Badger Ordnance 30mm One-Piece 1.54" Condition One Modular 0 MOA I finally found (6.5 oz) only by going to Badger's own website. And they are priced north of $300 green backs, which is a bit spendy for a sub-1K$ lpvo like the Credo.

    Rather than bore you with further travails down my personnel rabbit hole, I think you get my point. Scope base makers, especially those that charge well north of $200. semoleon's should put their weight of their product front and center everywhere they are sold. I shouldn't have to go to multiple places just to find out.

    Anyway, in the end, I went with an old standby Primary Arms PLx 30mm Cantilever Mount - 1.5". About $212. bucks for a 5.9 oz mount, before tax & shipping, with my GI discount.

    Primary Arms 30mm PLx Cantilever Mount - 1.5"
     
    Completely different product, not even weight related but Eberlestock's website will have ten pictures of people using a pack who *might* be in the military but no internal/pocket measurements or close ups of the layout.
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    I have three of their packs but that always gives me a laugh.
     
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    Yeah, weight not being a listed spec deove me crazy too. What I've found is that QD mounts, like ADM are in the 10 oz range, with some being heavier.

    About the lightest I've found, while still being pretty robust, is the Nightforce Unimount and the Leupold Mark AR (a heck of a mount for under $100), each at about 6 oz.
     
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    Reptilia AUS, Nightforce unimount, and Primary Arms PLX mount are all pretty light and good quality

    My 30mm 1.5" unimount is 5.7 oz.

    My 30mm 1.54" PLX mount with RMR top cap is 6.5 oz
     
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