Thread: Barnard SMS rails

The one they provided me was really tall. Too tall to allow a proper cheek weld. It was too long for the action and would have needed cutting down too. The only way to mount my scope back far enough (without chopping the rail) to get proper eye relief would have been with stupid high rings to allow the objective to clear the rail entirely. Making cheek weld even worse.

Functionality/ergonomics aside, it looked naff. Perhaps it would have been fine on a P/PL but not on a short little SMS. "It's that or nothing" wasn't really what I was expecting from Barnard.