I have an AI AT Folder in 6.5CM and it's disgustingly accurate with the competition trigger in it. It is also heavy, blocky, but has a charm that comes with owning an AI. After years and years of owning the rifle perhaps I'm a little bored paired with practical changes I think I want to make.
I am considering swapping out the club foot stock for an AX conversion. I have always been torn between going with a thumbhole folder skin to have a more classic look, or essentially making it into an AT-LE and gain the adjustability of the AX stock. I have never gotten behind an AX itself but the stock seems to be more ergonomic. There are trade offs like having to move my scope higher to better match the cheek weld at the lowest setting - I haven't really full explored or considered what practical issues that might manifest moving the optic away from the bore but I figured it would be as it would with an AX?
I find the factory club foot setup to be clunky and I can't change LOP for tripod or positional shooting vs prone, I don't really see the full AX change as beneficial, I don't know if an AX would really ride a bag any better or easier than an AT fore end. I also kind of like the look of the AT-LE.
Thoughts and opinions? The cost of the AX upgrade and adding a RRS rail for the tripod inches me ever closer to another model -I don't mind the mods and mix of old and new but is there a practical benefit to the AX over the modded AT?
Also: It's too bad the AT-X isn't mlok as I think the keyslot looks rather meh. Practicality aside - aesthetics do matter.
I am considering swapping out the club foot stock for an AX conversion. I have always been torn between going with a thumbhole folder skin to have a more classic look, or essentially making it into an AT-LE and gain the adjustability of the AX stock. I have never gotten behind an AX itself but the stock seems to be more ergonomic. There are trade offs like having to move my scope higher to better match the cheek weld at the lowest setting - I haven't really full explored or considered what practical issues that might manifest moving the optic away from the bore but I figured it would be as it would with an AX?
I find the factory club foot setup to be clunky and I can't change LOP for tripod or positional shooting vs prone, I don't really see the full AX change as beneficial, I don't know if an AX would really ride a bag any better or easier than an AT fore end. I also kind of like the look of the AT-LE.
Thoughts and opinions? The cost of the AX upgrade and adding a RRS rail for the tripod inches me ever closer to another model -I don't mind the mods and mix of old and new but is there a practical benefit to the AX over the modded AT?
Also: It's too bad the AT-X isn't mlok as I think the keyslot looks rather meh. Practicality aside - aesthetics do matter.
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