Question: UtiliMAK Carbine Mount

This is it on one of my Fulton Armory M1 Carbines with the USGI style mount. The red dot is a Vortex Venom. It's light, handy and accurate.

Same mount on a different Carbine a couple of years ago. That red dot was a tad bulky so when I got the Fulton I went with the Venom. It still worked nice but its lighter now.

You have 2 choices depending on your carbine type, USGI style or for new production Auto Ordnance/Kahr models

 Handguard, Scout Rail, Picatinny, USGI / FA Carbines, UltiMAK (fulton-armory.com) 

Other commercial models won't mount

It looks like UltiMak is offering to models, mine would be the Scout model. They look to be similar in mounting. IMO the model I have would be better of the 2 syles

I'm having same problem focusing carbine sights and target using my everyday bifocals.  Remedy is this:  Reading glasses for close vision ya buy at Walmart.  Buy several of differing diopters to see what works best.  Close vision Diopters will probably NOT be what you would normally use as readers and most certainly not same as your every-day bifocals.

Example:  My close vision bifocals are a +3.25 Diopter and the carbine iron sights are blurry as well as the down range target.  Likewise the far-vision lens.   Bought several pairs of cheap Wally-World reading glasses and determined the +3.00 Diopter focused the carbine sights perfectly with acceptable target definition at a hunnerd yards.  Then I returned the others for refund.  Had a +3.00 diopter lense fitted to my Knoblock monocle shooting glasses.  I doubt a fancy expensive dot sight will get you a better group than plano 10 dollar cheaters (reading glasses).  Please give it a try and get back to us.

I went a similar route.  Only difference is I bought 1.x and 1.5x safety glasses guessing from my reading glass perscriptions and the distances.   I found I could use either with pistol but 1.5x more easily brought both sights into focus with no effort.    With the carbine, the 1x works very well.  My  groups with the full reader safety glasses can be seen in the most recent posts under 'range results'.

In the woodshop, they are sometimes useful, but for me the lens distortion is often an issue.    The eye and brain is normally a very good judge of how square something is.    Still its nice to have the option. 

(Many ranges and events require glasses.  Presumably its for eye protection, and my thinking was well they might as well be impact resistant glasses.  However I've not seen impact requirements, so maybe just any glasses cover the concerns that generated the requirement.)

Sawbones wrote: I'm having same problem focusing carbine sights and target using my everyday bifocals.  Remedy is this:  Reading glasses for close vision ya buy at Walmart.  Buy several of differing diopters to see what works best.  Close vision Diopters will probably NOT be what you would normally use as readers and most certainly not same as your every-day bifocals. Example:  My close vision bifocals are a +3.25 Diopter and the carbine iron sights are blurry as well as the down range target.  Likewise the far-vision lens.   Bought several pairs of cheap Wally-World reading glasses and determined the +3.00 Diopter focused the carbine sights perfectly with acceptable target definition at a hunnerd yards.  Then I returned the others for refund.  Had a +3.00 diopter lense fitted to my Knoblock monocle shooting glasses.  I doubt a fancy expensive dot sight will get you a better group than plano 10 dollar cheaters (reading glasses).  Please give it a try and get back to us.

I wondered, the Fulton Amory site says you can remove the scope from the rail and still,use the military sights. BS as usual?

Here's my delima, I'm hitting well with the late model military M1 Carbine sights put to 200 so it's a tough call for me to spend $1,000 for the Ultimak mount and a Holosun for 2 rifles.

Glad to help.

Did you have a flip sight or adjustable sight? I've got the later on my carbines