Picatinny rails for Blaser

Introduction

Blaser has revolutionized the way riflescopes are mounted on the rifles by introducing a unique mounting system. Most Blaser rifles (R8, R93, B95/B97, D99, K95, S2, BBF95/97 and many others) have four notches on the barrel, the dimensions of which are the same on every Blaser rifle that uses this mounting system. Blaser is one of the first rifle manufacturing companies that introduced the barrel-mounting system.

Picatinny rails for Blaser rifles

Blaser's system works great – it is repeatable and allows plenty of combinations. There is a problem though – for optics such as night vision riflescopes, thermal riflescopes, riflescopes with tubes of a non-standard diameter, and riflescopes with a non-standard mounting rail underneath, the offer of mounts on the market is scarce. Since the majority of these optics can be mounted on a Picatinny rail, the solution is obvious.

For the user who wishes to have a Picatinny rail on a Blaser rifle, achieving that will be more difficult and expensive than with other rifles. Mount manufacturers mostly have two categories of Picatinny rails for Blaser in their offer.

Fixed Picatinny rails for Blaser rifles

The first category is fixed Picatinny rails. With one of these, the user can transform the four notch platform into a Picatinny platform, achieving the possibility of mounting most optical devices on it.

Detachable Picatinny rails for Blaser rifles

The second category is detachable Picatinny rails. These work like all other mounts designed for a four-notch Blaser mounting system. The optic mounted on the rail can be quickly removed and put back on. This is great when the user has two different optical devices (a thermal or night vision riflescope and a day riflescope, for example). They can be switched between one another without having to re-zero every time.

Extended Picatinny rails for Blaser rifles

In both cases (fixed and detachable), Picatinny rails are available in standard and extended versions. They can be extended backward like the ones made by MAK (MAKuick) and INNOmount – most night vision optics have a short eye relief and have to be mounted back so that they are closer to the user's eye. They can also be extended forward, all the way up to the tip of the rifle's barrel. With these, a full-length Picatinny rail flat top is achieved. It allows mounting of a riflescope with a clip-on attached to the objective lens. Contessa and MAK have the most Picatinny rails of this kind in their offer.

Picatinny rails for Blaser rifles meant for the mounting of red dot sights

Many red dot sights are designed to fit on a Picatinny rail as standard. Some mount manufacturers make short Picatinny rails for Blaser rifles which are meant for the mounting of red dot sights. The most popular rails of this kind are made by INNOmount and Blaser, even though the latter has not been included in Blaser's catalog in the recent years. The one made by Blaser was fixed and known for its low-profile design. INNOmount Slight, as the INNOmount named their short Picatinny rail, is detachable and sits a little higher on the rifle because of the integrated mechanism for repeatability.

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Blaser has revolutionised the way rifle scopes are mounted on the rifles with their saddle mount system. The main feature of this system is that it can be found with all Blaser rifles, no matter what type or model they are. That means that Blaser succeeded to offer the same mounting solution on repeating rifles like on the R93, R8, Combination rifles like B95/97, Single Shot break rifles like K95, Drillings like D99, Bockdrillings like D14, side by side rifles like S2 and all other rifles made by Blaser.

This system is thus by far the most versatile mounting system on the market. Additional advantages that it offers are:

Very low mounting height of scopes with rails like Zeiss ZM/VM, Swarovski SR, S&B Convex,
100% repeatability when detached and reattached,
small size and weight,
easy detaching and reattaching the scope to a rifle.

This mounting system has four notches for mounting directly on the barrel and not on the action. All mounts that attached to all four notches can be used on all types of Blaser rifles. Those mounts however that are attached only to 2 notches (most commonly these are mounting solutions for the red dot sights and reflex sights) are rifle specific. That means that MAKnetic for Docter Sight for Blaser R8 will not fit on any other Blaser rifle except R8. Such mounts are very elegant due to their small size but their versatility is limited to one specified type of Blaser rifle only.

Another important consideration that needs to be pointed out is that all mounts for Blaser rifles (original and non-original) are designed to work only on one single barrel. That means that if you have set a mount on one barrel (setting a mount on the Blaser rifle means to tighten the adjustment screw in a way that clamping of the mount on the four notches is done by exactly appropriate force) it will work only on that Blaser barrel and not on others. You can have multiple optics on one Blaser barrel but you cannot have a single optics on multiple Blaser barrel. The only exception to this rule are Dentler mounts.

This mounting system can be found on the following Blaser rifles:

R8
R93
B95/B97
D99
K95
S2

Picatinny rails for Blaser

Introduction