RTI Caution on Bottle Shield with RTI Mora

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droyd

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Hey guys, just a little update on my experience with the RTI Mora. It's been great so far, except for this bit. Seems that the screws I got sent with that secure the M-Lok Shield to the gun might be a little shallow. The hole is about 7.3mm deep but the screws only go about 3.2mm in depth, leaving 4mm of unutilized space. See the photo where I compare the depth to the screws themselves. When I had this slung over my shoulder it just randomly stripped both threads on the gun. I had used it like this for a while now, and I'm quite sure I wasn't rough on slinging it over my shoulder either. I had the gun set up as shown in the photo with the grouse I got (shameless brag).

I've emailed both the distributor and RTI themselves today so we'll see what can be done about it. I can probably just use longer screws but seeing as it's only 4mm of thread this time, I doubt 1mm more would have an effect for long.

Any other RTI Mora owners out there that can share if their screws are also this shallow?


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if the bolts were properly torqued at the beginning the extra thread engagement is not going to do you that much good. It's a poor design with a lot of Leverage with a sling on the end of a huge lever arm with tiny screws on the other end. The vast majority of the load is taken up just by one screw the other screw does almost nothing. Given the diameter of the screw it is not a robust design meant to have a lot of tension on it. Calling it a bottle Shield is correct that's about all is good for.

My opinion I wouldn't put a sling there at all.
 
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I had the same problem with my Argus 45 years back. But with the cocking lever block. Just...had two full threads holding things together.

The next longer fastener was too long, and didn't feel like shortening a screw already that small, so I used the original fastener, but just made the counter sink deeper. Enough to add a couple of full threads . Working well so far.

Mike
 
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