PSA for XLR chassis owners

Mike402

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Apr 24, 2014
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Palm Springs, ca
Well I learned a valuable lesson today. If you've got an XLR Evolution with a picatinny rail up front, and you want to hang a heavy bipod like an Atlas 5H and load it pretty hard, mount the bipod as close to the install screw as possible. I mounted mine on the end of the rail and ended up with this:

rail 1.jpg


If I can just save one poor bastard from repeating this, I'll consider it worth posting this thread. Guess I'll be calling Kyle and friends on Monday to order another one :-(