{"id":742,"date":"2018-10-25T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optics-trade.eu\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2020-04-20T14:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:06:31","slug":"mount-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optics-trade.eu\/blog\/mount-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Rail | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telescopic sights with a mounting rail under their main tube are almost always made by European producers and meant for hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Rail mounting brings about these advantages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fewer tensions on the scope<\/li>\n<li>More reliable mounting<\/li>\n<li>Mounting without marks on the scope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mounting of such scopes with modern rail systems is easy and can be done by less experienced gunsmiths or even by the users. Selection of mounts is limited to premium European manufacturers, and such mounts are usually more expensive than ring alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Most common mount rail systems are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>LM rail<\/strong>: a traditional prism rail under the scope. This standard was used in the past by all major European manufacturers and is commonly found on old hunting scopes. It is still used in limited production by S&amp;B, Docter, and Kaps on their Classic lines of scopes. Mounting of scopes with LM rail is the most demanding of all rail systems since is demands drilling through the rail. Mounts made for LM rail have screws that go through the rail\u2019s cross section.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zeiss ZM\/VM rail:<\/strong> a modern standard used by the biggest number of producers. The companies that use it also call this rail standard: 45\u00b0 rail, Zeiss M rail, Docter Z rail, Meopta MR rail, Minox is rail, Leica rail, or S&amp;B LMZ. There is no drilling needed when mounting such scopes and usually 2 or 3 internal elements are inserted into the rail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swarovski SR rail<\/strong>: the main feature of this rail system are\u00a0thr small ribs (recoil stoppers) that prevent movements of the scope during recoil. The system is used on Swarovski and Kahles scopes, and 2 or 3 inserts in the rail are needed when mounting. All high-quality mounts made for SR rail have only one point, where small ribs are fixed, usually on the front mounting element.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S&amp;B Convex rail<\/strong>: this rail system is used exclusively by Schmidt &amp; Bender on their hunting lines of riflescopes. The basic principle of internal parts of the rail and outer parts is the same as with Zeiss ZM\/VM rail standard; however, the shape of rail is convective and not made of straight lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telescopic sights with a mounting rail under their main tube are almost always made by European producers and meant for hunting. Rail mounting brings about these advantages: Fewer tensions on the scope More reliable mounting Mounting without marks on the scope Mounting of such scopes with modern rail systems is easy and can be done&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.optics-trade.eu\/blog\/mount-rail\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mount Rail | Glossary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[365,164,1229,159,1233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glossary","category-mounts","category-mounts-glossary","category-riflescopes","category-riflescopes-glossary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mount Rail | Glossary - Optics Trade Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.optics-trade.eu\/blog\/mount-rail\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mount Rail | Glossary - Optics Trade Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Telescopic sights with a mounting rail under their main tube are almost always made by European producers and meant for hunting. 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