Blackbrush,
I am not talking about an integral Picatinny rail on Steyr Mannlicher SSG 69 rifles. No, I am talking about the scope mounting rails that are machined on the receiver (PI and PII rifles). If you have your rifle close by, just look carefully at the inclination of those rails : They are sloping downwards from back to front of the receiver.
And to make things easier to understand, I hereby give you a copy of the email (part of it) that I had sent to Mr Oliver Bauer with his response already posted here (#230) :
"Betreff: Steyr Mannlicher SSG PII rifle - Technical question
Hello Mr Bauer,
(...)
So, for the last few months, I have been studying my rifle from all sides and angles and I have a technical question for you. When I look at it closely, it seems to me that the SSG has inclined scope mount rails machined on the receiver. I think that I can see that the rails are inclined downwards from back to front of the receiver. If I am not completely mistaken, the SSG would have - de facto - an integrated inclined scope mount system, and that, Mr Bauer, would be great.
And my question is : assuming that I am right (!), would you be able to tell me the degree of inclination of those rails, in MOA (Minute of Angle)? I thought that the good people at Steyr Mannlicher would know - better than anybody else.
The idea of an integrated inclined mount system on the SSG 69 PII rifle is not mine : I read about it a few months ago on the Internet (just can't find the thread anymore, of course) and it has been puzzling me ever since. It was just an opinion but still, I am not the only one who is puzzled.
Best regards,
J... D........"
And his response :
"Dear Sir,
Thank you for your email and for being a STEYR MANNLICHER customer.
Yes, you are absolutely right - the SSG 69 PI and PII have 20 MOA rails.
There are also pure civilian versions with 0 MOA rails (called the SSG MATCH).
Best regards,
Oliver Bauer
Sales Manager
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STEYR MANNLICHER GmbH
Ramingtal 46
A-4442 Kleinraming
Austria"
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I was just trying to help here.
Carcajou