Sidearms & Scatterguns What’s required to mount a SRO?
- Thread starter BurtG
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The diameter of the screw is too big for the threaded holes in the slide? I always have to dremel down the length of the screws some to get them the perfect length for my setup.
If thats the Jagerwerks BROS, give them a call. I think they stock a few different screw types for different cuts.
What came with the pistol and what optic is it cut for? That doesn't look like a ZEV RMR cut as it doesn't have the front bosses on the cut.
So it looks like Zev, instead of using bosses, run those posts and It keeps the force off the screw itself, but in doing so, require smaller diameter screws.
My BROS fits right into mine, but my optic cut uses the larger diameter screws and is direct milled with the bosses up front.
I would call Jagerwerks. I have a collection of optic screws in my shooting bag for all situations.
The SRO doesn't need a sealing plate, it's completely sealed/closed on the bottom. The sealing plate is for the RMR and only needed if the mounting surface is narrower than the o-ring on the bottom of the RMR.
RMRs and SROs mount with #6-32 screws. The two small holes on the front of the underside of the optics are supposed to mate with recoil bosses on the base, or mounting plate, or machined into the slide.
You bought a slide with a dumb mounting system which uses the optic's screw holes as locators for recoil bosses and now you need to buy undersized screws. CHPWS uses the same idea (dumb) and their optic plates need #4-40 screws. I bet yours does too.
Measure to make sure the length of screw you buy isn't long enough to bottom out on the extractor rod.
Looks like it. Ordered 100 grade 8 4-40x7/16 off eBay.
Zev uses this design exclusively it appears
Idk if dumb or not. With that design the screw only holds it down. Not back and forth
The recoil bosses on the front of the top picture take the axial loads. The screws only see tension loads. That's how Trijicon designed the mounting interface to work.
Others think they are clever when they do something different which is non-standard and not any better.
I'm not saying the ZEV slide isn't going to work or that joint's gonna fail. I'm saying it does nothing better than the Trijicon standard while introducing its own problems of non-standard hardware as you just found out.
This is not my first rodeo with pistol mounted optics or with stress/strain/screw joints.
Well if anyone finds this thread and needs screws. Hit me up Il send some. I have 98 more. Also. The nightforce tool works well on these.
