I've been knocking around here enough to have seen the Sage clip guide mount and photos of an ACOG mount that uses the clip guide and to have become curious about attaching a compact optic mount to the clip guide dovetail only.
Is the geometry and dimensions of the clip guide dovetail appropriate and consistent enough to use as an attachment for a stand-alone mount? I have my doubts based on the Aimpoint Micro T-1 thread. However, there are a lot of sighting solutions that use a single dovetail to attach the mount.
Assuming my doubts are misplaced, the dovetail could be a nice place to attach a custom mount for a T-1 or the smallest ACOG (the TA26S is one with the special ring mount rather than the carry handle mount). There are lots of special mounts for the T-1, and it doessn't seem like it would be too hard for a good machinist to make a low T-1 mount or ACOG "special ring mount" that would attach directly to the clip guide dovetail.
Co-witnessing or quick detach capability would be nice to have, but more difficult to achieve. I'm not sure you could get the bottom of either optic low enough without interfering with ejection.
Here's a photo of the TA26S ACOG:
Is the geometry and dimensions of the clip guide dovetail appropriate and consistent enough to use as an attachment for a stand-alone mount? I have my doubts based on the Aimpoint Micro T-1 thread. However, there are a lot of sighting solutions that use a single dovetail to attach the mount.
Assuming my doubts are misplaced, the dovetail could be a nice place to attach a custom mount for a T-1 or the smallest ACOG (the TA26S is one with the special ring mount rather than the carry handle mount). There are lots of special mounts for the T-1, and it doessn't seem like it would be too hard for a good machinist to make a low T-1 mount or ACOG "special ring mount" that would attach directly to the clip guide dovetail.
Co-witnessing or quick detach capability would be nice to have, but more difficult to achieve. I'm not sure you could get the bottom of either optic low enough without interfering with ejection.
Here's a photo of the TA26S ACOG:
