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I just mounted a Holosun 507K-X2 optic on my Sig P365XL. Blue loctite and torqued the screws to 15 inch pounds. My question is, does anyone here put a small torque stripe on such screws to check for loosening? I've heard that Jerry Miculek recommends it, although I've not seen him say it.

Ron

He is talking about torquing to a certain inch pound, then marking the screw so you know if it has backed out or not. I have done it for years on various firearms parts such as action screws, scope ring screw, base screws, etc.

Thanks Mackay! That's it. When I was a helicopter pilot we referred to that as a "Torque stripe". That's all I could think of to call it. It's a common practice on aircraft bolts.

Ron

I do it on all my competition guns, including the front and rear sights. I had a front sight on a G34 loosen up just enough it rotated, not enough be obvious, but enough to shift the group about 6" right at 10 yards - enough to miss plates on a rack.