Video Transcript
If you're someone using the Nightforce Ultra mount for your scope of choice from another company or possibly for Nightforce, there's a fun little accessory that you can add to the front of it, which is the RAP-i. The rail accessory platform dash improved, or RAP-i for short. This is a diving board for use with laser rangefinders, ballistic computers, IR lasers to give you illumination with a night vision clip-on, or just to give you a platform that you can rest your hand on without disturbing your scope while you are shooting from different positions, because if you do take your hand and push down on your scope, you can add some additional variables that can result in inaccuracy. But by attaching this here to the front, I have something I can put my hand on, and it also serves as some protection to my scope if my gun happens to hit the ground for some reason or take some other impact. It can protect my elevation turret and also just the scope itself.
So, what you get included is the dive board itself, the supporting ring that's going to go here in the front, a bunch of screws, and a Torx key. On the card that's included in the clamshell, it's going to have the Torx spec in here. I believe it's the same as the mount itself. It's a 5 inch-pounds, and you'll be good to go. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to remove the front cap of my ultra mount. What's nice here is if you've already leveled your scope and you have the rear cap on nice and tight, you can remove this and add the dive board itself without having to re-level your entire scope. So we're going to remove this guy. We're going to remove the cap here from the dive board itself because this needs to go on top first before we can attach this. So now I have my little hub thing. Take the bridge.
This just gives it more stability. Take the six included screws and start dropping them in. So we're going to torque these to 25. We'll start with the middle. We will shed some weight or just remove this off of the rifle for some reason, you can detach the diving board, leave this, and just shoot the gun as is. But in this case, we're going to use it because if we have it, why not? We'll place this back on top. Sweet. And we're set. So now I have the diving board in place on this DMR. So if I were shooting from a weird position in a barricade or something-- I guess it's not really that weird. It's pretty common. I can now rest my hand on top to control recoil without needing to hit my-- pushing down on my scope or anything. And as you will see, it sits taller than my turret. So if this were to take a front impact, that's being transferred into the mount and a lot less into the scope.
One thing to note with this device is some of the older Wilcox Raptors that are floating around there, especially the police trade-ins, some of them have the mounting mechanism of having the single screw in the center. Older dovetail or older dive boards would have a hole there that you could screw the Raptor directly into. The Raptor, as the new model, relies on this Picatinny mount. And the diving board here from Nightforce does not feature that little hole. So that's just something that is going away with some of these dive boards because all the new devices are Picatinny only. So what we're going to do with this device--and we have--12 slots of Picatinny on the top of this dive board. We are going to position this in a way that-- We don't want to run all the way to the edge necessarily. I want to keep it kind of towards the middle.
But I don't want to be hanging over my turret for when I need to be zeroing it and messing with it. So I think this will look pretty good. For obvious reasons, you'd want to torque the Raptor to this, to spec. But for the purposes of this video, I'm just using a screwdriver cable. So when I'm on the rifle, obviously you have plenty of height to see up into the computer and see what's going on. It's going to tell me what I need to do because it's smarter than I am. And that is what it's going to look like. Do you have any other questions about the diving board from Nightforce or other products that are compatible with the Nightforce Ultra Mount? Go ahead and email us at team@trex-arms.com.