I have won a rifle in a drawing. It will come with Weaver bases and Picatinny rings. Are the rings compatible with the bases?
... I would hope that since you're getting rifle, base and rings as a package they would have already picked a base and rings that work with each other.
Thank you, that makes sense.Weaver rail and picatinny rail are the same nominal width, with the same dovetail. Weaver gust generally has a front and rear slot, vs the picatinny having one every half inch.
I have fit crossbolt pic rings on a weaver base before. Of course as noted, YMMV
Weaver bases originally had rounded cross slots and Weaver rings had round cross bolts. Picatinny bases have square profile slots and Picatinny rings have squarish cross bolts. So, in theory, Weaver rings will work in Picatinny bases, but Picatinny rings will not necessarily work in Weaver bases.I have won a rifle in a drawing. It will come with Weaver bases and Picatinny rings. Are the rings compatible with the bases?
This is the key - the actual slot dimension (width) is different. The MIL-STD-1913/Picatinny slots are wider, which normally means that (spec compliant) Weaver attachments will mate/fit on a Picatinny rail (albeit with slop in the slot) but Picatinny attachments won't fit on a Weaver rail.the slots on Picatinny are .206 for Weaver .180
Done, courtesy of a bag of Savage short action bits, the top of my dryer, and three flashlights. In this photograph, the Weaver base is in the front and the Weaver rings are on the right, and the Picatinny base is in the rear and the Picatinny ring is on the left.Pics?
All I have to go on is the promoter's description. Rifle is T/C Compass II; spec from T/C says Weaver bases. Scope is Crimson Trace, rings are unknown provenance, but described as Picatinny.Are you sure you don’t have them mixed up? Much more likely to be a picatinny base and weaver/weaver style rings.
If that proves all true, I'd just pop for a set of the Warne Weaver-style rings.
I’ve dealt with Warne CS a couple of times and it was excellent.I am a huge fan of Warne products and have them on almost all of my rifles now.
Their CS is topnotch too.
I would wait until I had it in hand. I have a hard time believing they're going to give away incompatible components.Thanks again everyone. The rings are in fact Wheeler for Picatinny. So it's either buy Weaver rings or replace base with Picatinny rail.
Good point.I would wait until I had it in hand. I have a hard time believing they're going to give away incompatible components.