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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 R93 is a straight-pull bolt-action rifle introduced in 1993. The rifle does not feature a classic receiver design as seen on most other rifles. Its action is an integral action that is bedded into the stock. The bolt has a 360-degree ring with 14 locking lugs that lock directly into the barrel. The rifle is fully modular, and the barrels and bolt heads are easily interchangeable for the user to be able to switch to a different caliber with ease. In place of an ordinary safety system, there is a cocking system that functions similarly, preventing the rifle from being fired when it is not cocked i.e., when the cocking slide is pushed forward. The rifle was discontinued in 2017 when it was replaced by the R8 model.
Figure 1: Blaser R93 receiver. Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Blaser_R93_Luxus.jpg
Blaser R93 is chambered for the following calibers:
Caliber depends on the barrel and bolthead
Blaser R93 is available in the following variants:
Blaser R8 features a barrel-mounting system where the mounts are mounted directly on the barrel instead of on the receiver. All Blaser rifles have the same four notches on the barrel.
Figure 2: Blaser R93 receiver. Source: https://www.mayfairshootingcentre.co.uk/product/blaser-r93-professional-223-rem-243-win/
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 R8
Blaser BS 95
Blaser BS 97
Blaser BB 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:
We recommend this reliable, 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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