Rogue, you thought about making one of these?

[BeaverEater]

Personally i dont do a whole lot of scenerio play, but 100 bucks for a sight rail seems really high. I mean even the 60 for the stock sight rail seems high to me.

[Cristobal]

And therein lies the problem. If $40 is as high as most would go, it wouldnt be worth making.

Yeah, and that part looks to be a beast to machine out of billet.

If I had to produce them, I think I'd try and make it in 4 parts. On part would look like a normal sight rail and then 3 copies of the Picattiney rail would bolt onto it. I'd make the sight rail part out of sheet metal (like the newer AGD ones) on a progressive die, and try and find a supplier that already makes a Picattiney rail which could be adapted to the sight rail with little modification.

Of course, setting up a progressive die would require a high initial investment, so I'd have to sell a lot of them to come out ahead, which raises the question of how many would buy them -- even at $40. If this were a Tippmann accessory, I'd say no problem... but there aren't all that many RT and RTPros in use out there.

Maybe the thing to do for someone who wants one is to try and bolt a rail to an existing AGD RT sight rail.

[Jotsy]

The question is, how much would you pay for one?

(Take into account thhat the retail on the standard site rail is $60 from AGD....so this site rail would be more expensive).

isn't the sight rail (the RT Pro version) $20 in the AGD store? the emag sight rail is $50...

you could just come out with kits that bolt picatinny rails onto the RT pro rail like Cristobal suggested (don't even bother making a new sight rail)

[Evil Bob]

Lots of venders on the web that selll all sorts of rail kits, the sky is the limit. You can get stock by the footage if you dig deep enough.

What I currently have is the stock RT rail with a .22 cal dovetail to weaver adapter hammered on the full length of the rail, did this 7 years ago with my old school RT (using the same rail now with my emag), its ugly, but it works. I originally mounted the weaver adapter so I could use dot sights with an inner diameter larger then 30mm, the bigger the optic view area, the quicker the dot acquisition. That single weaver rail currently has a cheap BSA (made in china) 42mm dot sight on it ($40-$50 at most gun shops).

I also have a tri-rail weaver base that I picked up several years ago for use on my AR, it pulls double duty occasionally on my emag when I play night games. I usually mount two lights to it, one very bright for spotting people (ruining their night vision) and one for low light movement. I was looking at a cheap 2nd generation reconditioned night scope thats gun mounted as a possible use of my tax return this year.

A viable option for those guys who dont want to do all the mill work is to create a single weaver mount and then pick up a tri-rail online, they range from as low as $25 to $50 depending upon the store (usually the very same model shown everywhere I checked). That in mind, I changed the model to accomodate this concept. Not a big fan of this idea as the tri rail adds additional height to your sight picture (+4") when using the top mounting rail, but this is most like the most cost effective route to go.

Pics below...

-Evil Bob

[Evil Bob]

I'm running a warp body, not too worried about the hopper being in the way on top. Also was looking into a qloader mount on the left rail.

-Evil Bob

[Evil Bob]

Very true, that's why the tri-rail tends to be flat and wide, there will be an additional 2-3" added in the weaver mount that's attacked to the device that mates up with the rail base, that will give you the clearance you need around most bloat loaders.

That's the main reason why the two side rails on my first model were a bit lower and extended. They're also high enough to clear the feed ports on both sides for warp junkies and the air input into the valve.

-Evil Bob