scope mount for rln "ZF K43/1" scope

[Absolut]

Among a rifle (funnily a bcd coded rifle) I had the chance to pick one of the original mounts the owner had, I decided to go for this one which I liked for featuring a bzz coded scope, as well as having the lowest rifle serial that I had ever seen on a ZF4 scope mount - it originally was mounted on rifle #7. The acceptance stamp on the right side by the way reads as Eagle 214 (unfortunately I noticed when resizing the pictures that it is almost not visible in the pictures I had taken, wrong angle and light position - will do a better one where this is visible later).

Coming home I then noticed the mount had been professionally milled between the two "arms" - a quick comparison confirmed that this therefore would correspond to those rln coded ZF K43/1 scopes. This, in my point of view, would also perfectly correspond to the extremely low rifle serial number on the mount, at least if I may assume that an experimental scope may also had been used on an experimental rifle which therefore could have had a very low serial (might even had been 7th rifle ever made which still was at the testing facility and got this mount mated to years later, I don't know, just saying, that this IMHO would sound reasonable).

So despite the scope now being incorrect to this mount I am still happy to have picked this one since I assume it is easier to find a rln coded ZF K43/1 scope than to find a mount for one - at least the scopes get described correctly more often than the mounts. In case anyone here has one or knows of one for sale, then please do let me know.

 

[walther1945]

Hello I believe that mount was intended for a zeiss scope . Impossible to find one for sale .

 

[Wilhelm]

You might be able to make one of the post war ZF4's the Bundeswehr used on the G1 rifles work. It's VERY close to the ZF K43/1. They aren't easy to find either but if I have two, they can't be THAT hard to find. They can also be had for a reasonable amount of geedus.

 

[roos1984]

Hello collectors, I once got a mount like that too. The owner was an 80-year-old rifleman and he told me that his father brought this mount back from the war on a K98. I can't say whether that's true or not, but he sounded very honest. I gave my mount to Claus Espoholt at the time and he was also of the opinion that this mount was made for the ZFK43/1 because the milling looked very professional and original. My mount had the number 4078 and I can't say whether that's a high or low number, but I can definitely say that the modern Bundeswehr rifle scope doesn't fit because the two adjustment wheels are swapped around. It's not identical to the rln scope, as I also own that. I've only seen an original RLN rifle scope at an auction once in my life and it went for almost $10,000.