bigfutz
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Any thoughts, tips, recommendations on keymod rails? My experience with the pre-keymod modular rails (Midwest SS) are that they are annoying to reconfigure.
Thoughts on keymod?
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Avtomat-Acolyte
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Have you compared KeyMod to M-Lok ?
bigfutz
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Arrrgh! Another "standards" shootout! Buy and hope or wait and see. The M-lok is apparenly cheaper to manufacture, works in plastic, and is backed by Magpul, so...
Avtomat-Acolyte
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bigfutz said:
M-Lok appears to be edging into the lead for a variety of reasons, some you mentioned.
I was all set to buy a KeyMod Tavor handguard from Midwest Industries so I could put a VFG and some extra, goofy bullshit on the front end of my Tavor. Then I saw where they are getting ready to release an M-Lok variant of the same thing. I've spent the past two months comparing every single thing about the two, proprietary rail mounting "systems" and M-Lok appears to have a small technical advantage from what I can tell. The more important facet is that M-Lok looks like the industry is going to rally behind it and KeyMod will be relegated to one of those "stepping stone" to greatness things.
As for the specifics why I (on paper) give the slight edge to M-Lok, the technicalities and the nuances of both currently escape my immediate recall. I just remember making up my mind "Wait and buy the M-Lok Tavor Handguard from Midwest Industries" so that is what I'm doing.
Avtomat-Acolyte
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VLTOR's KeyMod
MagPul's M-LOK
These are identical products (Tavor foreward handguard) manufactured by the same company (Midwest Industries).
MagPul's M-LOK
These are identical products (Tavor foreward handguard) manufactured by the same company (Midwest Industries).
bigfutz
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For me the biggest advantage is that everyone has tons of Magpul on the shelf, so there will be no shortage of rails, mounts, and whatnot. I wouldn't be suprised to see mounts for optics and lights that skip the pic rail interface.
armaborealis
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I have a rifle with a keymod rail setup. I didn't go out of my way to acquire it; PSA just happened to have a great deal that had a Keymod rail configuration.
Thus far, I like it well enough. There is some added expense to add rails or swivel studs where you need/want them, but on the flip side you don't need to put rail covers on to hide unneeded rail slots. I don't have any strong feelings and suspect MLOC will work as well.
I have used the Keymod system to support a mount point for a sling swivel and slung up nice and tight with no issues, so it seems sturdy. I have not put a laser or other attachment that needs to hold a zero on there.
Seems like a six and 1/2 dozen thing to me.
Thus far, I like it well enough. There is some added expense to add rails or swivel studs where you need/want them, but on the flip side you don't need to put rail covers on to hide unneeded rail slots. I don't have any strong feelings and suspect MLOC will work as well.
I have used the Keymod system to support a mount point for a sling swivel and slung up nice and tight with no issues, so it seems sturdy. I have not put a laser or other attachment that needs to hold a zero on there.
Seems like a six and 1/2 dozen thing to me.
