Zeiss ZM / VM rail Mounts

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The design of the Zeiss ZM/VM rail is a 45° prism with an inner niche for mounting elements. When mounting a rife scope to a rifle with a purposely made rail you can easily see the advantages over the more traditional mounting with rings. For starters its quicker and easier, with no additional tools required for the procedure. The only main disadvantage when compared to rings is the price, which is usually a bit higher than rings, and the availability. Not all manufacturers produce rifle scopes which are fitted with rails. When you are mounting your rifle scope with the Zeiss ZM / VM rail you can clearly see the advantages: it improves the stability of the riflescope, it is more robust and reliable, the riflescopes main tube is not under stress and thus its constructionally intact.

Mounting with a rail does not leave mounting marks on the main tube and it is easier to achieve the proper eye relief. When mounting with a rail you always get a perfect horizontal level as the reticle is aligned with the rail. Mounting with a scope rail solutions is always the preferred way over the mounting with rings and in the future most of the European premium rifle scopes producers will exclusively use this approach. We are waiting on the first scope that will be produced with mounting rail only (apart from Zeiss Diarange which contains laser and cannot be mounted with rings at all). Torque values for tightening the mounting elements in the scope rail should be between 4-5Nm.

The Zeiss ZM/VM rail is the most widespread of all rail mounting solutions and it is being used by the following manufacturers: Zeiss, Docter, Leica, Minox, Steiner, S&B (on some scopes, marker with LMZ), Meopta and Blaser.

The main mounting manufacturers that are producing elements for Zeiss ZM/VM rails are: EAW, Recknagel, MAK, Rusan, Henneberger, Blaser and INNOmount.

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Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Picatinny, Zeiss ZM / VM rail

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Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Blaser, Zeiss ZM/VM Rail

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Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Sauer 404, Zeiss ZM/VM rail

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Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Blaser, Zeiss ZM/VM rail, 14.5 mm

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Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Sauer 303, Zeiss ZM/VM rail

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Repeatable mounts take all advantages of detachable mounts to a new level. All the advantages of detachable mounts, which are:

Detachable mounts offer possibility to use multiple scopes on one rifle,
enable easy transportation of the scope and the rifle separately,
in an emergency if the scope fails you can immediately detach it and use iron sights are upgraded with,
100% repeatability, which means that you zero all your scopes only once and then you can use them on one rifle in any combination you prefer and as many times as you wish.

Such mounts are ideal for hunting rifles, where you can use the same rifles with different optics on many different types of hunts. The perfect combination of different optics on one rifle can be described in this fashion:

Red dot sight or wide angle riflescope for driven hunts,
1.5-6x42 or similar for stalking,
3-12x56 for low light hunting.

You can add as many different optics to this setup as you wish, since this is the main concept of repeatable mounts. Easy transportation of optics and rifle separately is only an additional bonus.

There are however many different types of repeatable mounts, of which the most common are:

Pivot mounts,
Weaver/Picatinny repeatable mounts,
Repeatable mounts on brand specific mounting solutions: Blaser Saddle mount, Merkel Suhl Tilt-Up mounts, Sauer 404, Sauer 303 , CZ 550, Mauser M03, Steyr original pivot mount, Merkel original pivot mount,

Dentler basis mounts,
Contessa 12 mm mounts.

There are also many other similar repeating mounts.

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Zeiss ZM / VM rail Mounts

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Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Picatinny, Zeiss ZM / VM rail

Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Blaser, Zeiss ZM/VM Rail

Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Sauer 404, Zeiss ZM/VM rail

Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Blaser, Zeiss ZM/VM rail, 14.5 mm

Henneberger HMS Swift Mount for Sauer 303, Zeiss ZM/VM rail

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