I have always attached a picatinny rail to my rifles and mounted a scope to the pic rail. This time I wanted to forgo the pic rail and attach directly to the receiver but I find myself a bit confused and was wondering if someone could enlighten me.
So there is what looks like to me a “rail” on top of the receiver with a grove on each side. The “rail” is .65 in wide. Is this a standard of some sort? Does it have a name? I assume that my scope rings will attach to this “rail” using the grooves, not the screw holes on top of the rail? Or do I have it all messed up? I know this must be some pretty basic stuff but I always just punt and put a pic rail on and now I would like to do it differently. The rifle below is a Tikka. This is Jims fault for showing me a better way.
I used Warne rings to attach my scope directly to my Tikka action, and they worked great! (I linked the ones I used below). I never had any problems with them, super tight and never came loose. I just wanted to have my elevation adjustments back for PRS competitions so I switched to a 40MOA pic rail or else I would’ve kept the Warne rings on.
Another good quality company is Talley manufacturing. Different attachment style, they use screws to secure the built in base straight to the receiver. Comes in 34mm as well!
Looks like these folks got you squared away, but here’s a little more info.
The “rail” is called a dovetail mount. It’s pretty common, but honestly a pretty antiquated attachment method.
You’ll also see kind of a lot of holes on top. That’s to accommodate a few different ring styles. Some have a pin as a third attachment point in addition to the two screws.
Get a set of direct mount rings from Talley or warne and you’ll be set.
