Now, the problem. Underneath the bottle cover is a typical hatsan picattiny rail made to catch a bipod. Works great, as far as attachment. But... when on the bench, with a non tilt type bipod, if you were to tilt the gun in any way(say to make sure your vertical crosshairs is plumb), flex is introduced, which transfers onto the barrel shroud bands(these shroud bandsare a slightly tight fit, unlike the Marauder barrel shroud bands), and introduces a flex onto the scope rail. The scope rail is made out of aluminum, but it is hollowed out with slotted channels underneath, which I assuming for weight reduction savings. This scope rail, with its extremely long length, transfers the flex onto the scope, and causes poor accuracy.
To test my theory, I removed the bipod, and laid the main stock on a rest, behind the bottle cover. Accuracy improved. One other member caught the flex when he picked up the rifle by the scope, and made a point to tell the few bully owners about it.
So, now, what to do. Yeah, I could just cut the scope rail off, and leave the bottle cover off. But when I try pushing down at the area of cut, the scope flexes downwards. It’s just too weak, with the hollowed out design. So, for the past few weeks I’ve been stewing on it, trying to find a way, and still keep it clean looking.
i searched all over the web, looking for complaints on this design, looking for ideas, and nothing came up.