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Brünner 16 Rifle Review

CZ Brno is a well-established company that has been manufacturing small arms for many years. They have a reputation for producing high-quality firearms that are used by shooters and hunters around the world.

For some time, Frankonia distributed and sold Brno rifles under the name "Brünner" specifically for the German market. The reason for this was that "Brünner" is the German translation for the town of Brno in Czechoslovakia, where CZ Brno is located. This allowed German consumers to easily identify the rifles as being made by a respected Czech manufacturer. This approach is quite common in the firearms industry, where manufacturers will sometimes use distinct names for the same product to target different markets. Thus, the term "Brünner 16" is used here to refer to all CZ and Brno models that come with a 16.5 mm flat top dovetail for mounting purposes.

Despite being referred to as Brünner rifles, the receivers or any other structural components of the firearms were not stamped with this name or altered in any other way.

An old Frankonia catalogue, marketing Brno rifles as Brünner

Figure 1: An old Frankonia catalogue, marketing Brno rifles as Brünner (Source: https://balkanauction.com/en/auction/6378929)

One of CZ Brno's most well-known product lines is the ZH series of combination guns and shotguns. These firearms are also widely recognized as "Brünner" in Germany, due to the company's association with the Brünner name in the German market.

Even today, some manufacturers of optic mounts and accessories still use the name Brünner or Brünner CZ in their catalogues. One such example is Recknagel, a German company that produces a wide range of shooting accessories, including mounts and bases for scopes and other optics.

If you are in search of scope mounts that are suitable for the Brünner 16 rifle, you should consider checking out any of the following landing pages on our website:

It should be noted that scope mounts suitable for the abovementioned rifles are only interchangeable between CZ and Brno/Brünner due to the specific differences in the design of dovetail surfaces in other rifles. Thus, they will most likely not fit various other mounting surfaces of rifles with 16.5 mm dovetails such as Sako M10, Sako TRG (all models), Steyr SSG 69, Tikka T3 etc.

Figure 2: An example of a 16.5 mm dovetail used on Brno ZKM 617 (Source: https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/brno-rifles/brno-model-zkm-617.cfm?gun_id=100924256)