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It is very similar to other rail mounting solutions developed by other manufacturers. The most notable are the Zeiss ZM/VM rail and the S&B Convex rail. The main difference is that the Swarovski SR rail has small teeth on the lower side, and they work as recoil stoppers. The Swarovski SR rail is a great solution for all those who need the advantages it provides: when mounting a riflescope to a rifle with the SR rail there is no need for additional tools, mounting is done swiftly, securely and easily.

When mounting with rail is compared to the standard mounting with rings it is easy to see all the advantages it provides. Rings can leave marks on the main tube, but not only superficial marks, the structural integrity of the rifle scope can be compromised thus leaving the user with a corrupted image and tracking problems. The scopes that are mounted with the use of rail are less subjected to recoil shocks and can withstand endless shots of almost any caliber. If mounted with rings they have to be realigned after a while. 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).

Riflescope manufacturers that use the Swarovski SR rail are Swarovski and Kahles. Swarovski SR rail producers: EAW, Recknagel, MAK, Henneberger, Rusan, INNOmount, Blaser and Ziegler.

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Pivot mounts are a special kind of repeatable mounts that are especially popular in Europe and mainly produced by European manufacturers. Most notable among them are German Companies like EAW (Ernst Apel Wurzburg), Recknagel, Henneberger and MAK. These Companies were also among the first to produce mounts of this type. Non German companies like Rusan are also following this trend.

Main benefits of pivot mounts, or swing mounts as they are sometimes called are:

  • 100% repeatability,
  • very quick and easy detaching and reattaching,
  • extremely durable; most mounts of this kind are tested on 10000 or more reattachments,
  • size and weight; light and small, elegant.

There are also some minor weaknesses that such mounts posses and they are: they are usually more expensive than other types of mounts, the installation on the rifle should be done by a skilled gunsmith and most of these mounts are higher than 14 mm.

A distinct feature of pivot/swing mounts is the way the scope attaches to the rifle. The front foot of the mount on the scope is inserted in the front base under a 90 degrees angle to the barrel. Then the entire scope is pivoted around the front base until it is locked into position by the rear base.

Pivot mounts of all types enable windage correction on the rear base at the time of the mounts installation. There are three main types of pivot mounts which are distinguished by the type of the rear base:

  • EAW style rear base: produced by EAW and Rusan,
  • Dovetail rail base: produced by Recknagel, Henneberger, MAK and others.
  • Leupold type rear base