Ok, so I was doing some browsing and wandered onto Wikipedia. Read this short excerpt from an entry on scope mounts and pay attention to the last item listed as an example of what can be mounted on a "weaver rail." I want to know--who in the world is mounting those on their guns? And why?
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A Weaver rail mount (Picatinny type) is a system to connect telescopic sights and other accessories to rifles, shotguns, pistols, archery bows, etc. which uses a pair of parallel rails and several slots perpendicular to these rails.
The only difference between the Picatinny rail and the Weaver rail is the size of these slots, although many rail-grabber-mounted accessories can be used on either type of rail. Weaver rails have a slot width of 0.180 in (4.572 mm), but are not necessarily consistent in the spacing of slot centers. The Picatinny locking slot width is 0.206 in (5.232 mm) and the spacing of slot centers is 0.396 in (10.058 mm).[1] Because of this, Weaver devices will fit on Picatinny rails, but Picatinny devices will not always fit on Weaver rails.[1]
The Weaver rail can be used to mount the following on a firearm:
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