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Blaser Jagdwaffen GmbH was founded in 1957 by Horst Blaser in Isny im Allgäu, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was then taken over in 1986 by the company’s master gunsmith, Gerhart Blenk. Since its beginning, the company has specialized in high-quality hunting rifles. In 1993, Blaser developed a straight-pull bolt-action hunting rifle, Blaser R93, with which they achieved great success in Europe. By 2016 – when the R93 model was discontinued and replaced by Blaser R8 – they had produced more than 200,000 R93 rifles. In 1997, they merged with Sigarms but remained autonomous in their rifle production, and in 1999 they began distribution of their rifles to the USA.
Blaser has revolutionized the way riflescopes are mounted on rifles by introducing a unique mounting system, called the Blaser Saddle. They were one of the first rifle manufacturing companies that introduced a barrel-mounting system. Most Blaser rifles are made with the same barrel mounting surface with four notches. Today, their rifle products include Blaser R8, combination guns, single-shot rifles, and shotguns. They have also started designing and producing binoculars in 2017, and telescopic and reflex sights in the year after that.
Blaser BB 97 is an over-and-under double break-barrel rifle introduced in 1995. It consists of two free-floating, cold hammer forged barrels, both available for the same range of calibers. The rifle features interchangeable barrels and can be disassembled and packed away in a matter of seconds, making it very practical, portable and discrete to travel with. Instead of a safety mechanism, Blaser BB 97 features a cocking mechanism where the rifle has to be cocked in order to be able to fire. The mechanism is a so-called double-lock mechanism, which means that firing the rifle only once will not decock the mechanism; instead, the rifle will decock by itself only when both barrels are fired. As with every multi-barrel rifle, the non-primary upper barrel has to be regulated to have the same point of impact as the primary barrel at the zeroed distance. However, Blaser made this somewhat easier by equipping the non-primary barrels with screws that the user can turn to adjust the barrel without the help of a professional gunsmith.
Figure 1: Blaser BB 97. Source: https://www.blaser.de/en/products/firearms/combination-guns/double-rifle-bb-97/double-rifle-bb-97/
The upper barrel is available in the following calibers:
7x65 R
.30-06 Spr.
.30 R Blaser
8x57 IRS
9.3x74 R
The lower barrel is available in the following calibers:
Blaser BB 97 is available in the following variants:
Standard
Classic
Blaser BB 97 features a barrel-mounting system where the mounts are mounted directly on the barrel instead of on the receiver. All modern Blaser guns (repeating rifles, break-barrel rifles, combination rifles, express rifles ...) have the same four notches on the barrel. Thus the same mounts fit on all Blaser modern rifles. The only exception here are some red dot sight mounts that are made specifically for R8 or R93 -- these do not fit other Blaser rifles.
Figure 2: Blaser BB 97 receiver. Source: https://www.blaser.de/en/products/firearms/combination-guns/double-rifle-bb-97/double-rifle-bb-97/
For two-piece mounts to be interchangeable the mounting surfaces of the rifles must match in every dimension except the B dimension which can vary. This is because the distance between the two pieces of the mount is not fixed. Blaser rifles have a special Saddle mount mounting surface, making their mounts interchangeable with most of their rifles. The following rifles have interchangeable mounts:
Blaser R93
Blaser R8
Blaser BS 95
Blaser BS 97
Blaser D99
Blaser K95
Blaser S2
Blaser BBF 95
Blaser BBF 97
Blaser BD 14
The necessary condition for rifles to have one-piece mounts interchangeable is that the mounting surfaces of these rifles match in every dimension. Again, most Blaser rifles feature a special Saddle mount mounting surface, making their mounts interchangeable with most of their rifles. These are the following:
Important to note: once a mount for a Blaser rifle is mounted, it cannot be used on other Blaser rifle barrels – these mounts are designed so that they can only be used with one barrel. This means that you can use multiple optical sights on one Blaser barrel, but you cannot use one optic on multiple Blaser barrels.
We recommend this 100% repeatable, reliable, and high-quality Saddle mount from Blaser.
For those who want to use a Picatinny rail, we recommend the Innomount Blaser Picatinny rail which is both reliable and sturdy.
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