Night Vision Favorite Clip On Chassis/Stock

[B.Bates]

I’ve got some gassers but want to get a practical short action bolt gun set up for night shooting.

What’s your favorite chassis or stock set up to get everything all lined up.

I’d prefer to run an Impact Action

1.5 height mount and have it all line up with nv front rail

 

[BurtG]

Krg bravo. Cheap light and it works.

Also. At-x

 

[B.Bates]

Yeah I was looking at the at-x but was told k need a super high mount

Something like a 1.7

 

[WhiteDingo]

The PDC Custom chassis NV bridge is adjustable for height via serrated mounting interface. Works very well.

The ARC Xylo should be pretty damned close as well. I'm running a 1.5" height mount on an Impact 737 with it and I'm pretty sure clip on height is spot on. I'll double check though.

 

[Killswitch Engage]

Whiskey 3 with enclosed forend is my jam these days

 

[Campguy308]

How does the MPA BA compare to the above options? I don't hear much about their forward bridge.

 

[rlsmith1]

Another vote for KRG Bravo here. I bought it intending to have it be a placeholder until I could get a chassis but the light weight and simplicity are super nice

ETA: I have run a PVS30 and 1.5" mount with great success (spigot backbone mount). Once I finalize the scope on this rifle, I will very likely get a 20 MOA mount and mount it backwards to eliminate the 20 MOA base of the Zeus action. This will give me uniform optic height and cant.

 

[upSLIDEdown]

How does the MPA BA compare to the above options? I don't hear much about their forward bridge.

MPA bridges line up great with 1.5” mounts. I’ve run that setup on a BA Comp and a Matrix with a PVS-30. My current setup is a 1.25” mount with the 30. It’s not ideal, but the 30 doesn’t really care.

 

[spamassassin]

I've tested PVS-30, PVS-27, Oasys, C35 on:
KRG Bravo w/ KRG's accessory NV fore end
Desert Tech SRS M2
Accuracy International AT w/ Cadex NV bridge
Sako TRG-22

All worked with 1.5" rings. With 1.25" rings there were problems with Thermals that affected usability. With NV problems weren't nearly as severe even without the beer coozy dealies in place.

One piece/continuous rails have not been an issue even with up to 30MOA of scope cant relative to the rail provided 1.5" rings are used. 1" rings caused quite a few usability issues. I also ran into problems of limited NV rail space to get PVS-27/30 mounted on TRG-22 with longish overall length of the day optic. Others were not a problem with the optics I tested with (IOR Recon, Steiner M7 4-28x, Crimson Trace Series 5 3-18x, SWFA SS 10x, NF NXS). If you're not blocked from going to a dedicated rifle for night shooting you really open yourself up as far as less expensive options. Clip-on is the route I went simply because I wanted 1 rifle for everything which had effects in terms of increased cost for the night vision/thermal devices, increased weight, increased complexity and scope length concerns. YMMV.

 

[BurtG]

Yeah I was looking at the at-x but was told k need a super high mount

Something like a 1.7

Possibly.

This is a 1.5 scope With a 1.3 thermal

 

[B.Bates]

thats an ai rifle, not a rem clone in the at-x chassis 2 totally different things... of course the ai rifle lines up

 

[BurtG]

One piece/continuous rails have not been an issue even with up to 30MOA of scope cant relative to the rail provided 1.5" rings are used

You had no poipoa issues with thermal and scope not on same plane ?

 

[spamassassin]

You had no poipoa issues with thermal and scope not on same plane ?

Sorta. My NV stuff is collimated which sidesteps that issue pretty well, but my thermal clip-ons have to be zero'd and that was done by adjusting the image location.

 

[NHPiper]

Another vote for Bravos. I am a running two of them. May sell the Magpul folder and setup a 3rd bravo.

 

[Killswitch Engage]

thats big fuckin gas line. whats that bad larry feed?

 

[NHPiper]

thats big fuckin gas line. whats that bad larry feed?

Haha, feeds my tenants furnace on the other side of the duplex along with their hot water heater.

 

[Burdy]

If weight is not a concern, the PDC chassis provides a lot of easy and precise adjustability. Drives me nuts when chassis can only put the clip-on at one height and I have to adjust my scope. It should be the other way around like the PDC.

 

[Travis224]

I have several Zermatt TL3s, and 1 Ti3, I had special rails made up to be able to run clipons with my scopes. This way any stock or chassis will work.

 

[PowPowHawg]

I have several Zermatt TL3s, and 1 Ti3, I had special rails made up to be able to run clipons with my scopes. This way any stock or chassis will work.

We need to be friends! Is there any chance I could get my hands on one or a couple?

 

[BurtG]

I have several Zermatt TL3s, and 1 Ti3, I had special rails made up to be able to run clipons with my scopes. This way any stock or chassis will work.

Who did the work ?

 

[Travis224]

Zermatt did it. I had them do several rails to make it worth while. I'm keeping several and selling off the rest.

 

[Burdy]

I have several Zermatt TL3s, and 1 Ti3, I had special rails made up to be able to run clipons with my scopes. This way any stock or chassis will work.

No flex issues? Man, I just don't see how. Even my Geissele Hyper Extended High Power mount has a bit of flex out toward the end. Haven't noticed any repeatability issues but....
In this case I guess any flex would be on the less important clip-on side.

 

[Travis224]

There is a screw to adjust down to the barrel to help with it flexing too much..but no issue. I run a voodoo S and I have zero issues with it. I haven't really messed with my TigIr yet, once I get the TL3 rails back from coating I will try it out too.

 

[B.Bates]

I’ll throw a Monkey wrench in here


Thoughts on the McMillan kmw Sentinel

Seems like it’s made for this