I have a mossberg mvp that came with a factory installed picatinny rail. I recently changed scopes and was sighting in yesterday and was keyholing then my poi shifted 4 inches right. I checked the scope and rings and found the whole assembly was loosey goosey. The rail screws had backed out loose and there was moisture between the rail and the receiver. The rifle had been indoors then went to shoot in the cold. I got to wondering if the temperature difference and shooting caused condensation of the outside humidity coupled with recoil vibration and loosened up the factory screw adhesive.
Anyhow...I dried everything, blew out the receiver screw holes and being sans blue loctite I was about to use some red loctite and read PERMANENT on the package. I decided to forego the permanent red and went with some extra strength (non gel) clear fingernail polish I have with my archery tackle. Yall reckon the clear polish will weather the temps and shock on a 223 or should I go ahead and reseat all the screws with blue loctite?
Anyhow...I dried everything, blew out the receiver screw holes and being sans blue loctite I was about to use some red loctite and read PERMANENT on the package. I decided to forego the permanent red and went with some extra strength (non gel) clear fingernail polish I have with my archery tackle. Yall reckon the clear polish will weather the temps and shock on a 223 or should I go ahead and reseat all the screws with blue loctite?
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