How to Add an Mlok Rail on Airsoft M4

As much as I like to be applied with my tactical, there is some room for fun, especially when colour options are a required pick. And aught comes closer to tactical color fun than playing with Magpul'southward One thousand-LOK Rails Covers.

Magpul Yard-LOK Rail Covers, blazon 2 to exist specific, are textured polymer squares that snap into M-LOK holes on most aluminium M-LOK handguard rails. In that location are limitations in that the Magpul M-LOK Runway Covers practise not fit properly with Magpul MOE M-LOK, nor the Magpul SL and No products establish. foregrips. The Magpul M-LOK Rail Covers lock into place with a second rectangular plug that provides a most seamless surface of contoured textured grip surface. And I've found that merely a bit of grinding on the centre section colonnade can make the rail cover fit where a gas cake limits the clearance.

The Magpul 1000-LOK Track Covers sit barely over 1/8th inch above the rail, and utilize a snag-free design that covers the rail considerably more than about other options. At about two bucks a rail section, adding some custom color to your AR has never been as affordable or functional.

Technically, Magpul makes five different colors including blackness, flat night earth, grey, olive drab green, and pink. Since each piece is actually two pieces, and an average handguard can have 5 covers in a row, that's v times five times v or 125 different rail combinations possible. Thus the Lego comparing. For my "needs" i avoided the pink and focused on the remaining four colors which left me iv times four times five or 80 different possible combinations. And with 3 rail sides to cover, that would aggrandize the available rail cover color combinations across my rifle to 240.

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With all those choices, I first needed to add some organization to my thinking. By laying out the and inserts, I could organize my choices into comse comparisons. Some additional factors I considered included contrast, other colors already present on the AR, and my love of certain tactical colors.

Later on a solid half-hour of mixing and matching, I decided on a prepare of rail cover colors. Moving from the staging area to the burglarize, I quickly realized I needed some specialized tools to speedily remove the runway covers to avoid settling for a color combination out of laziness. I found that a Snap On angled selection and a Snap On nylon smoothing pry bar worked wonders for rapidly removing the rail covers with no run a risk of scuffing to cover or handguard. Of course, being Magpul, the design of the M-LOK Track Covers allows easy aligning with nix more than the tip of a 5.56mm bullet. .223 rounds work just as well, but when safely home, the Snap On tools work improve, in my humble opinion.

The Magpul M-LOK Rail Covers come in packages of six for a total weight per 6 of under one ounce. And then roofing iii M-LOK runway sections with five panels each will just add 2.iii ounces to your rifle, all the same customize it in a breathtaking mode that'southward sure to both make you smile and make your gun about invisible through custom camouflage. Nearly.

I mixed and matched variations and idea about the pros and cons of that particular color scheme. Afterwards an hour of trial and error, more often than not trial, I settled on a couple designs. From in that location I took the combination into the wild to encounter how it fared. Frankly, it seems like pretty much any combination of the Magpul's M-LOK Rail Covers is a win-win.

Similar Legos, it's fun to play effectually with different color combinations, and Magpul, whether intended or not, provided an constructive rails comprehend solution that goes so far across traditional runway covers that you might simply rethink your handguard in order to utilise the Magpul One thousand-LOK Rail Covers.

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Medico honed his survival skills through professional courses, grooming, and plenty of real-world situations, both intentional and not. Doc lives to mountaineer, rock climb, trail run, hunt, race mount bikes, ski, hunt, and fish. Dr. Montana holds PhD's in both Science Education and Informatics and currently teaches at a University in the northern United States. Read his full interview here.