KillianG from United States, SC Public Profile

Pretty much an essential upgrade if you've got a Mini-Something in a Strikeforce stock or anything else with a QD point in the butt. There's a clip to attach to the one swivel that's on the gas block, or for looping right around and clipping to the ring on the sling. The clip and QD button are blackened steel, and the clip has a push-button lock.

Neither attachment point has an additional swivel, so if you clip it while it's twisted, you'll have to unclip and try again.

The rest of the hardware on it is plastic, but I can't find a trace of sprue, so QC must be really good.

It's a good deal for a little under $25. It's chunky and solid, but also chunky and clunky. The adjustment button is a little sticky, and also sharp on one side. I bet that smooths out with use, and at least the spring inside is strong. The rail clamp is a little cheaty, and I'm not happy with that part. The base is split down one side, and the tightening bolt just "squeezes" the to halves together, so they pinch on whatever rail you put it on. It's not a uniform tension all the way down the base, just on one end, so I'm skeptical.

The battery compartment is plenty spacious, enough to hold two AA's side by side, and doesn't take much effort to get open.

It is what it says it do, a laser with an extra lens that widens the beam for quick-n-dirty target acquisition. Great for any situation where accuracy is secondary to speed. Good for choked shotguns and Mini-14s. The elevation and windage knobs are great for getting that green dot concentric with your red dot. Also great is the choice to power it with CR2 batteries instead of CR123.

There's a limited illumination factor, it's not a green flashlight, so I wouldn't count on it to replace a weaponlight. I also wouldn't count on any crims you point it at to wet their pants in fear, as in the advertising picture there, but it'd certainly blind them if you got it in their faces. That said, an adjustable collimator for diffusing the beam into a flashlight-type cone would be handy.

The package says "300 yards range", but I think it's less effective the further out from 50 you go. But that's plenty for the kind of thing you'd need it for anyway.

I had the same problem as others have, missing a packet of screws and nuts. I wrote to ATI and they had a new packet out to me right away, so that's points for Customer Service. The rest of it is definitely solid, as dense and weighty as you'd expect from any other polymer frame. The pictures always look like they'd feel as cheap and flimsy as an $80 airsoft toy, but then you hold the pieces and all confidence is restored.

The pistol grip is purdy darned chonky, so if you're coming off the OEM stock or some custom thumbhole dealie, prepare for a little bit of an adjustment period. The rubber backstrap on it is replaceable, I think, but there weren't any slimmer ones included. Maybe ATI has future plans for that.

The rails are not interchangeable with ATI's aluminum rails, they don't have the right indent for this stock. It's a moot point, because they're made of the same stuff as the stock body, and solid enough to handle basic lights, lasers, foregrips, etc. Again, maybe in future there'll be more stuff.

There's some to-do about the butt piece, where the shaft fits into the main body, and I think that's just because the butt piece is made to be universally fitted with other ATI stocks, like if you got the one for the SKS or AR-15. Also, the cheekrest is a little fiddly to install, with a whole extra set of brackets. The upside is if you want to eliminate the cheekrest, there's no open screw holes to ruin an otherwise clean look.

Bonus tip: Speaking of a clean look, if th