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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hauksen" data-source="post: 3591282" data-attributes="member: 142861">Hi Etudiant,In fact, the plastic base below my ED50A's tripod socket came off pretty quickly. I don't miss it, but it's sort of amusing that the serial number is on that little piece of plastic.Ah, thanks! That works surprisingly well, though in combination with the shoulder stock on the left shoulder, it's requires quite measured movements to switch from carrying to observing to vice versa.Hehe, I'm familiar with the cable tie, but I'm totally sold on reflex sights anyway. You can make a cable sight tie work, but the reflex sight really does the work for you <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />It's not by accident you see red dots everywhere in the shooting world these days, and for a scope on a tripod where the correct eye-rearsight-frontsight alignment is not determined by body mechanics, they are even more advantageous than on a rifle.Most of the hassle with mounting a reflex sight is because it's entirely "homebrew" at the moment ... however, I recently saw that Vortex sells a scope with a standard mounting rail installed on the rear body, and that's pretty close to "plug-and-play" already.Regards,Henning (HoHun)</blockquote>