I love these Armslist ads with the sights on backwards...I swear I've seen like 10 of them.

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Originally Posted by kwando

not to mention the front sight should not be placed on the front gas block... i've seen it at shops before as well.

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That and that front railed gas block is not "Rail height".................................[LOL]


By that is shows me the person selling knows nothing about this AR and was trying to make a little extra buck..................

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Originally Posted by kwando

not to mention the front sight should not be placed on the front gas block... i've seen it at shops before as well.

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I was one of those dumbass.. til the mbus got loose from the heat. You shouldve seen my grouping. I couldve hit godzilla!

In all fairness, I run my front MBUS reversed. According to Magpul, the front can go either way, and the previous owner of the sight ground off the release lever on one side. So I'm kinda short of options till I go with another front sight. But yeah, mounting an MBUS on a standard gas block= bad juju.

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Originally Posted by Skully

By that is shows me the person selling knows nothing about this AR and was trying to make a little extra buck..................

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On his bottom-shelf DPMS, at that. Oh well...more power to him, I guess.

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Originally Posted by AirbornePathogen

In all fairness, I run my front MBUS reversed. According to Magpul, the front can go either way, and the previous owner of the sight ground off the release lever on one side. So I'm kinda short of options till I go with another front sight. But yeah, mounting an MBUS on a standard gas block= bad juju.

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[gohome] sorry...

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Originally Posted by drift_g35

I had a guy that works at great guns tell me one of my sights was on backwards. I politely disagreed and he tried to explain to me that, that was the way he was taught in the military with the same sights. I have MBUS sights. Are those even used by our military?

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i have a matac (which IS used by our military) it folds towards the back of the rifle just like a mbus

I don't mind iron sights backwards. It's just a peephole. Why would it matter which way was the front when you're looking through a circle? Same with the front sight. It's a post.

I run my front sight reversed, for no other reason than it takes up less real estate on the rail, and I don't have to worry about clearance issues. Though I can't see any reason to run the rear sight reversed for the same reasoning.

Might be a forthcoming "Restriction" in the Feinstein bill.

"All firearms with open sights, are prohibited from being installed the forward and proper direction. Open sights are only allowed to be installed and used for function when installed backwards, sideways, upside-down-ways, slanted, skewed to the right/left/up/down, or in any otherwise manner to render them useless for acquiring a target."