Zeiss rail or no rail

[Charles21]

I’m looking at a Zeiss Conquest V6. I was looking for advice about ordering with the rail or not. I’m mounting it on a REM. Model 700 LH and also what base works best for this gun with a rail if I choose that option? Any ideas would be much appreciated.

 

[smokey]

i have no experience of the remington but if i have the option i would always use rails rather than rings i have had rail mountings on a couple of rifles loved them to bits

 

[paulbshooting]

I mounted my V8 rail scope onto a bergera B14 rem 700 clone using Alan rhone mounts. Worked fine and the same scope now sits on an R8. Any future scope I will buy for center fire rifles will only be rail.

 

[Leupsak]

Rail every time I can

 

[8x57]

Given the choice I would probably go for the rail version of the scope, however it should be remembered that rail scopes are not every ones cup of tea and will have a limited resale market. Also to be considered is the availability and choice of mounts for the Remington 700 that is available to you in the U.S.

 

[Hales Smut]

Rail +picatinny + Innomount

 

[8x57]

Rail +picatinny + Innomount

Sorry HS but you have confused me with your post.
Do you mean you favour a scope that has a fixed mounting rail, or are you recommending Innomount rings plus a picatinny rail? You can't have both systems can you.

 

[Leupsak]

Alan Rhone Store

@8x57 Rail scope mounts for a pic rail I believe is what @Hales Smut meant but may be wrong

 

[8x57]

I'm with you both now, I was thinking that innomount only used conventional rings. I didn't realise that they also do a system for linking scopes with rails to picatinny rails.

 

[Hales Smut]

Sorry HS but you have confused me with your post.
Do you mean you favour a scope that has a fixed mounting rail, or are you recommending Innomount rings plus a picatinny rail? You can't have both systems can you.

Sorry, only see it now.

I would go for scope with rail and Innomount. Innomount fits a Picatinny rail
It seems to be general accepted that a rail on th scope is the best way to mount a scope.

 

[Mike_E]

I'm interested to see how you can get a rail mount scope mounted low enough?

Most photos of mounting options show a 56m objective scope with a good 10-15mm gap between the objective and the barrel. If you were to run a smaller objective the gap is even larger.