Blaser mounts correct eye relief

[WildBoarHunter]

Hi,

I'm using an R8 for about 10 years. It's a great rifle and I have two barrels for it, 308 win and 6,5×55. Over the years I used a number of different riflescopes, all mounted on Blaser original factory mounts. Currently I'm using a Swaro Z8i 2-16×50 rail mounted and it's a huge scope with generous eye relief about 9 cm so there were no problems mounting it to the correct eye relief. However in the past I used original Blaser mounts with Zeiss rail mount and Zeiss Classic scopes and these couldn't be mounted as far back as required as they were somewhat smaller scopes with less eye relief (8 cm). Now I'm in the process of mounting a Swaro Habicht 1,5-6×42 with 30 mm rings and would like to know which mounts would give me enough room to mount the scope as far back as neccesary. As it is a rather compact scope with only 8 cm of eye relief I'm expecting the mounting could be difficult. I read somewhere that Innomount provides more space for mounting as far back as necessary. Also are Innomount mounts reliable, being made mostly from aluminium.
Thanks for any and all input...

 

[doric_prince]

I have a innomount (not on a blaser) and to answer your question it’s a quality made mount that holds zero after detachment and reattaching no problem.

 

[Craigsaun]

Hi,

I'm using an R8 for about 10 years. It's a great rifle and I have two barrels for it, 308 win and 6,5×55. Over the years I used a number of different riflescopes, all mounted on Blaser original factory mounts. Currently I'm using a Swaro Z8i 2-16×50 rail mounted and it's a huge scope with generous eye relief about 9 cm so there were no problems mounting it to the correct eye relief. However in the past I used original Blaser mounts with Zeiss rail mount and Zeiss Classic scopes and these couldn't be mounted as far back as required as they were somewhat smaller scopes with less eye relief (8 cm). Now I'm in the process of mounting a Swaro Habicht 1,5-6×42 with 30 mm rings and would like to know which mounts would give me enough room to mount the scope as far back as neccesary. As it is a rather compact scope with only 8 cm of eye relief I'm expecting the mounting could be difficult. I read somewhere that Innomount provides more space for mounting as far back as necessary. Also are Innomount mounts reliable, being made mostly from aluminium.
Thanks for any and all input...

I was in the exact same situation as you, with a Blaser mount and Leupold vx5 scope . I changed the Blaser mount for the Innomount and it solved my problem and haven’t noticed any difference in build quality or zero issues

 

[bowji john]

I too have found this an issue

I’ve never resolved it

 

[artschool]

i always wondered about this as well.

 

[Lateral]

I just struggle with the Zeiss scopes being very short, and also struggle with the Swarovski ringed scopes, and only use SR mounts now.

Innomount make a rear extended mount which should solve the issue. I've just fitted one with an Alpex. & already have one on a Thermion.

Blaser rear extended Scope Rails

I generally carry these in stock. Just ordered some new "Zero's" this morning.


Mark / 07802-306444

 

[WildBoarHunter]

Could someone confirm to me that the original factory old type Blaser mounts provide more mounting space backwards than the new type?
I have a chance to aquire the older type set at a significant discount.

 

[Steff]

Could someone confirm to me that the original factory old type Blaser mounts provide more mounting space backwards than the new type?
I have a chance to aquire the older type set at a significant discount.

Rail mount? No, they don't.
Ring mount, yes, a couple of mm. Not worth mentioning.

My recommendation is Henneberger. Their extended rail has mutiple options for ring positioning.
Here is an example. On the left with an old style original Blaser base rail and a Hennerber extended base rail on the right. If you look very closely you can see the additional mounting hole for the front ring. whichs sits considerably further backwards.


Once you have solved the ring positioning you run into the nex problem. The objective bell. Unless you use super high rings the bell will inevetably conflict with the base rail, which is also the limiting factor when using a rail mount.

 

[WildBoarHunter]

Thanks for your reply. I was asking about ring mounts. They seem to provide a bit more mounting space but probably not a lot. You allready mentioned because of the objective bell problem.
The old type is also supposed to be somewhat lighter than new type.

This is my scope and rifle.

 

[Ajax]

Had exactly the same issue, ditched the original blaser qr mounts and went Innomount and problems solved

 

[Steff]

Thanks for your reply. I was asking about ring mounts. They seem to provide a bit more mounting space but probably not a lot. You allready mentioned because of the objective bell problem.
The old type is also supposed to be somewhat lighter than new type.

This is my scope and rifle.

But your scope should be long enough for a regular mount. If not your LoP is too long.

 

[WildBoarHunter]

Lop on R8 is 37 cm and the Habicht only has 8 cm of eye relief so I think the regular new type of Blaser mounts would fall a cm or so too short.

 

[Mr B]

Picatinny rail and some rings? The rails usually extend quite far back over the magazine opening.

 

[Steff]

Lop on R8 is 37 cm and the Habicht only has 8 cm of eye relief …

Yes, I know.
And I honestly wonder why Blaser sell the R8 with 37cm LoP as a standard. The R93 had 36cm and most US models are max. 35cm.
Being 6‘ tall I can live with the 37cm, but this is definitely at the top end for me.

 

[WildBoarHunter]

In the end I bought the Innomount with backwards extension. I always prefer steel mounts over aluminium ones whenever I have a choice but I felt here there wasn't really a choice if I wanted to do this right. Will see how it goes from here. Thanks everyone for your time and pointing me in the right direction.