Re: SH First Look - Battleline Industries SAPR
I received my SAPR yesterday, and mounted it to my LMT MWSE SOPMOD stock.
I figured I should alert Hide members to one glitch in the installation instructions.
Step 5 instructs you to slide the Part 3 subassembly (which includes the cheek piece and vertical spacer) onto the base spacer mount, handtighten the long left-to-right cross bolt, position the cheek piece at the height you want, and then tighten the cross bolt to secure the cheek peice at that height. That does not work as written.
If you tighten the corss bolt a sensible amount (i.e. not try to strip it!), it will not actually secure the cheekpiece. The cheekpiece with its vertical spacer will still rather FREELY slide up or down and even off!
I emailed Josh at BatteLine, and he provided the remedy:
That cross botl actually threads into a helicoil insert, so you CAN tighten it pretty aggressively, and you NEED to. That does indeed secure the cheekpiece at whatever height you had set it for. It took Josh merely minutes to reply to my late-in-the-afternoon email, too, so the support level is GREAT.
One other thought: If you set up your rifle to use the cheek piece in ONE position, and to use the factory SOPMOD cheek piece in a different shooting position, when shooting using the SOPMOD cheek piece, it looks pretty feasible to simply have the SAPR cheek piece flipped to the right. That shouldn't interfere with your hold, and enables you to run the 2 different cheek pieces for 2 different positions, plus it makes it unnecessary to flip aside the SAPR cheek piece when retracting the bolt.
Jim G