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With the tremendous amount of Picatinny accessory on the market today, it's relatively easy to add technology to your airsoft gun. Attaching accessories to your airsoft gun is also a quick and easy way to give your gun an unique look among a field of airsoft guns.
The M4 with a quad-rail provides lots of attachment real estate for attaching accessories. But if you have an MP5 or a pistol, you may not have any Picatinny rails. This article provides instruction to attach metal Picatinny and/or Weaver rails to your mock silencer to create attachment space.
Cross-Reference
If you have a MP5, check out our "Adding Rails to MP5 Handguard" article.
The mock silencer is generally a round barrel. Unless you get some science fiction mock silencers that are square, you can't just attach Picatinny rails to them. That is because most Picatinny rails have a flat bottom for attaching to flat surfaces.
Luckily, we found the Weaver 48346 Aluminum Base Pair at the local Walmart. This Weaver rail is meant for to fit Remington 870 with drilled and tapped receiver. This weaver rail set (comes in two) has a curved bottom (see photo below), which is perfect for round surfaces, like a mock silencer.
Photo below shows the Weaver rail's curved bottom conforms to the silenced-MP5 mock silencer nicely.
It turns out that this curved bottom Weaver rail also conforms to the silenced-MP5 handguard as well (see photo below). So you can use the technique in this article to mount Weaver rails to a silenced-MP5 handguard.
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