Should You Mount Your Front Sight Backwards?

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There's Logic Behind It.... But Is It Good Logic?

Caleb went down the "Reddit Rabbit Hole" again, and he found a bunch of threads urging folks to mount their folding front backup sight on their AR-15 so it folds FORWARD, not the usual way, back toward the handguard. But why?

Caleb and his fellow Brownells Gun Tech™ Steve review the reasoning of the "forward folders" and tell us whether they think it holds water!

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