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Not sure why you always edit your posts...

Anyway the question was directed at IDMilton...

As for WA "standards"... horsechit... you have no standards... and you also damn sure have no self-respect.

“Help me understand the appeal?

Big glass?“

Sometimes, like the scope on the top rifle in the picture below, it is for a large optic. But now I use it for lots of things.

At first it was because I am one of the poors that get made fun of sometimes here :-).

I play musical optics a lot just to experiment with different things or for what I am doing that day. (This week I have had the red dot, the day scope, and the thermal on the lower rifle out shooting.)

Rather than buy several ADM, BOBRO, or Larue mounts at $250 each, I thought I would just buy one of these risers and use the rings I already had.

After I got the first one I liked it enough to get another for myself and to recommend them to some friends. All those screws and mounting surface make them feel super solid.

I can put eye relief what I want it, ring spacing, and I needed risers anyway. I don’t see a downside or what I would gain from going with Cantilever mounts


If I pay attention to mounting them the same each time, all of the optics below return to zero just fine.

No riser for you.

You can't have one.

Sorry, but we have standards for use and your schiet tier ARs don't get Wyo Arms risers.

As if you have the first clue what makes a quality AR15. Wyo Arms that are so good they have zero LE/Mil contracts with any major departments and are never in any serious discussion for a quality fighting or hunting AR.

Pardon me actually owning a handful of quality AR’s that are actually considered top tier and knowing the difference.

Ever heard of Wilson Combat? What about Northtech Defense? Hodge maybe?????

So mean to Johnny fatbelly.
LOL

Hey now don’t spook the hole, I haven’t gotten to posting the pics to set the hook yet. 😂

This is beyond UBER, and way past epic...

As if you have the first clue what makes a quality AR15. Wyo Arms that are so good they have zero LE/Mil contracts with any major departments and are never in any serious discussion for a quality fighting or hunting AR.

This is the guy who wrote earlier in the thread that he took his new AThlon to the range and when I dialed 60 clicks got 63. I said I like the scope and got a little grief over it.

Today I went back to the range and if anyone cares, I am getting 62 clicks when I dial 60. I can live with that and will just build it into my drop chart.

I had a little more time today and would shoot once and then dial the scope back-and-forth a lot and then shoot the 60 clicks.(that is the farthest apart I can shoot my groups on my target).

I shot at different magnifications and parallax settings. And even though I said I wouldn’t do it again after having bent the windage knob on a previous scope, I put out my shooting pad on some mostly packed snow and did some drops.

My shooting pad is 1 inch thick, so very different from the half inch pad used in the tests mentioned on the other forum. I skipped The 18 inch drops and shooting after every drop and just dropped it three times on the left side from 36 inches, three times on the top the scope, then three times and it’s right side.

My first shot after the drops was about 2/3 of an inch right, then the next ones were right back where they should be.

Then I repeated it, so altogether I dropped the rifle and scope 18 times. My next shot touched the previous bullet hole before the drops.

I know this isn’t scientific and I’m not doing 20 shot groups to find true centers etc. I’m just messing around. But now I really like the scope. I was worried about buying a Chinese scope but I am going to use this and just not worry about it.

I have the target if anyone wants me to take pictures and upload them.

While we are waiting we can see Larry Vickers and Kyle Lamb talk about Wyoming Arms.

Oh Johnny drunk boy you got some free marketing via podcast good for you.

Vickers is very vocal about shooting either hk (he helped design it after all) or a BCM (again a model he helped spec out).

Lamb has said time and again he prefers the VTAC m&p15 he designed for s&w and that’s his go to rifle.

Not one of them has a single post on their social media featuring WyoArms or promoting them. Telling…..

Really?

Really?

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