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The History of Haenel Company

C.G. Haenel is a German manufacturer in the weapons industry, based in Suhl, a small city in the Free State of Thuringia. The company dates back to 1840 when it was founded by Carl Gottlieb Haenel, the Prussian commissioner for firearms manufacturing. They started out with the production of weapons and bicycles, which was quite common at the time as it goes hand in hand.

In 1887, a weapon designer named C.W. Aydt joined the company and designed the Aydt rifle and pistol. At the beginning of the 20th century, Haenel massively produced the Mauser Model 98 for the German Army, which was used during the First World War. In 1921, another weapon designer, Hugo Schmeisser, joined the company. Soon after that, they started producing submachine guns, based on his design, despite a ban by The Treaty of Versailles. In 1928, the company introduced the MP28, which was used by German law enforcement.

Even with Schmeisser’s success, Haenel went bankrupt several times during that period. They formed an association named the United Suhl-Zella-Mehlisser Arms Factories with several other arms manufacturers. They produced over ten thousand units of the Sturmgewehr 44 for the Nazis. Following their defeat in the Second World War and the occupation by the Soviet Union, arms production companies were hit by the war reparations. Later on, Haenel began producing air and hunting rifles by the brand name Haenel Suhl.

In 2008, the company was reinstated and renamed to its original name but under different ownership. They introduced plenty of new hunting rifle series, including Jaeger 8, Jaeger 9, bolt-action Jaeger 10, semi-auto SLB 2000+, and Jaeger 11 shotgun. They also designed a new Jaeger NXT straight-pull rifle in 2021.

Haenel Jaeger NXT Rifle Review

Haenel Jaeger NXT is a straight-pull rifle with a kick-down bolt handle. The rifle is optimized for lead-free .308 Win. ammunition but can use lead cartridges as well. The magazine can hold five rounds. Jaeger NXT has an M15x1 threaded barrel with removable iron sights. Instead of using the traditional wood stock or the robust synthetic stock, Jaeger NXT combines the two with their environmentally friendly composite wood stock.

The rifle has a crisp direct trigger with a pull weight of 1000 grams (35 oz). It is 1035 mm to 1045 mm (40.7-inch to 41.1-inch) long and is accompanied by a 520 mm (20.5-inch) barrel.

Haenel Jaeger NXT, chambered for .308 Win.

Figure 1: Haenel Jaeger NXT, chambered for .308 Win. (Source: https://www.frankonia.de/p/haenel/repetierb%C3%BCchse-jaeger-nxt/2011537)

Haenel Jaeger NXT Calibers

Haenel Jaeger NXT is chambered for the following calibers:

.308 Win.
.30-06 Spr.

Haenel Jaeger NXT Variants

Haenel Jaeger NXT is available in the following variants:

Standard
DS

Haenel Jaeger NXT receiver comes with a milled-in Picatinny rail for mounting purposes. The distance between the grooves is about 93 mm, which we call the B distance.

Haenel Jaeger NXT, chambered for .308 Win.

Figure 2: Haenel Jaeger NXT receiver, chambered for .308 Win. (Source:https://www.frankonia.de/p/haenel/repetierb%C3%BCchse-jaeger-nxt/2011537)

Scope Mounts Interchangeable With Haenel Jaeger NXT

Rifles That Have One-Piece Scope Mounts Interchangeable With Haenel Jaeger NXT

All rifles with a Picatinny rail and an appropriate B distance.

Rifles That Have Two-Piece Mounts Interchangeable With Haenel Jaeger NXT

All rifles with a Picatinny rail

Best Scope Mounts for Haenel Jaeger NXT

Fixed Scope Mounts for Haenel Jaeger NXT:

We recommend the ERA-TAC Ultralight Scope mount made in Germany with a flawless low weight design. It is made of aluminum and comes with a ten-year warranty.

Repeatable Detachable Scope Mounts for Haenel Jaeger NXT:

If you are planning on using various scopes on your rifle, then this scope mount from the German manufacturer, Henneberger, is the way to go. The scope mount is made of steel and comes with a thirty-year warranty.

Help Us Build Our Riflescope Mounts Database

If you happen to own this or any other rifle, we would appreciate it if you could help us expand our database by sending us some photos of the rifle receiver (the bare mounting surface of the rifle without the mounts installed). For your help, our company offers a fair return in terms of practical rewards.

Please send us an email for more information. You can contact us here: info@optics-trade.eu

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Introduction

In recent years we can observe that a trend of Picatinny rail has become widespread and global. It is driven by the NATO standardized rails, more commonly known as the Picatinny rail standard. Picatinny rail being the New Jersey Arsenal that developed it in 1995.

These mounting options are revolutionary. The biggest and best advantage being that the Picatinny rail can be used its entire length and not bordered to a few pre-designed slots like for example the Weaver rail standard was before.

The other main advantage is the ease of use and interchangeability. If a product is meant for a Picatinny rail design it will fit all Picatinny-rails, no matter the manufacturer or date of production.

Picatinny/Weaver Rail

Picatinny Rail and Weaver rail profile

Design

The Picatinny rail is almost exclusively crafted from a single piece of metal (in some cases aluminum). In this manner, the axis of the Picatinny rail is perfectly straight and aligned with the axis of the firearm. Therefore the rifle scope which is mounted onto this kind of configuration is certainly aligned with the rifle / gun and the trajectory of the ammunition.

Weaver rail design on the other hand is usually manufactured in two separate pieces, greatly increasing the possibilities for the axis to be crooked, overlapping, and out of line.

It is always harder to align two separate pieces to a third line than it is to align one piece to another. In this way, the lapping of two mounting rings on a single-piece Picatinny rail is no longer required.

The single-piece rail will assure that both rings are perfectly aligned to each other and that no unwished stress is transferred to the riflescope.

Picatinny compare to Weaver Rail

The Picatinny rail itself is an evolutionary step forward from the older Weaver rail. The main difference between Picatinny rail and Weaver rail is the spacing of the slots. Picatinny rail design has them evenly placed exactly 5.23 mm from one slot to the other, 3 mm deep. For this reason, the mounting options are repeatable and the same as other firearms using the Picatinny rail standard.

Interchangeability was a major driving force in the development of the new standard as different NATO armies need to be compatible with each other.

Weaver rail has 3.8mm wide slots and these slots can be placed anywhere on the Weaver rail and in any number that the producer wished.

Advantages of Picatinny design

A big advantage for using the Picatinny rail design is the ever-present recoil stop. Furthermore, the manufacturing of the rail is not very technically demanding and can be done without the use of state-of-the-art machines which greatly reduces the cost of the finished product, making it very affordable.

The Picatinny rail is easy to mount and usually, this type of configuration does not transfer negative stresses and forces from the fired weapon to the rifle scope.

In addition, the Picatinny rail with its very long useable surface works well for mounting longer rifle scopes or to achieve optimum eye relief.

The durability and toughness are other big pluses for this solution.

Manufacturers of Popular Models

A majority of the Picatinny rings are fixed, but a number of best rated European manufacturers (EAW, MAK,..) have, in recent years, put a lot of effort into the development of detachable ring with100% repeatability, with which it becomes easy to remove the scope from the weapon without the use of tools.

No re-zeroing is needed with such mount options, but these models tend to be expensive.

Weaver and Picatinny Rings

Picatinny rail and weaver rail share one more thing. It is possible to use the Weaver ring and the Picatinny ring on the Picatinny-rails, but it is usually impossible to use the Picatinny ring on the Weaver base. The reason being the above-mentioned positioning and spacing of the slots.

Picatinny mounts have a 5mm recoil stop that goes into the rail slot and since
Weaver rail only has 3.8mm wide slots such rings do not fit on Weaver rails.

Due to this reason, the Picatinny-rails are popular and prevailing on the market in recent years and eventually, these options will completely oust the Weaver rail from the market.

Haenel NXT

The History of Haenel Company