Talk:Picatinny rail

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Inappropriate picture

This page is about an accessory interface/support, but the photo is primarily of an assault rifle and all kinds of accessories. There are many better pictures of Picatinny rails on the LaRue sight, to name one, which would be more appropriate. I have a bit of it on the chin of my PX4 for example, so the assault rifle focus is inappropriate. A picture of the simplest piece of Picatinny and a single accessory, arranged so the interface is obvious, and employing the slots to anchor the accessory from moving fore or aft, would be much more appropriate. A picture anyone?

--Solidpoint 10:35, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

As it was literally standardized for the US Army, how is showing the primary system that uses them "inappropriate"? It's literally a milspec system for weapons. 97.149.154.127 (talk) 11:45, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I might be buying a length of Weaver rail in the near future for a research project. Do wiki rules let me post digital picks of something I own? I know it s a Weaver, not a Picatinny but honestly they are the same damn thing. The Army just had to do it a bit different.

Grimlock1 23:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You can definitely post a picture that you took yourself. Post it at Wikimedia Commons, and link to it from here. There are help and how-to pages there. You will have to give license for others to use the photo too. You just pick a license from the list of options. I recommend the freest license (GFDL, copyleft, whatever it is called there). It is OK if the thing you are photographing is patented; what counts re copyright is that you are the creator of the photograph. — ¾-10 01:59, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the best image I could find Modest Genius ^talk 18:40, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good Luck finding a decent picture you can actually use with all the ridiculously silly wiki-rules governing the use of images, and the wiki-enforcers who interpret these rules as they see fit, to decide just what can and cannot be used. (imho) - ^theWOLFchild 19:33, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

30 MOA

I found the expression "30 MOA" with picatinny rails (eg. here and here: https://youtu(.)be/OsthCQhHbkE?t=24 (wikipedia is afraid of links to youtube as it seems)). Did I overread what MOA means or is that not in the article? --D-Kuru (talk) 22:54, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here: https://youtu(.)be/hhsncMsnLZg?t=19 they talk about 20 MOA --D-Kuru (talk) 23:20, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Minutes of arc. That's half or a third of a degree. Seems excessive? Andy Dingley (talk) 01:04, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And where is the difference between a 20 MOA and a 30 MOA picatinny rail? The viewing angle would be defined by the scope, right? And all picatinny rails are the same size? So where is the difference? --D-Kuru (talk) 19:47, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Source of Name -- please discuss at Arsenal talk page

Regarding this edit and this edit, please discuss here:

Talk:Picatinny_Arsenal#Source_of_name

--David Tornheim (talk) 20:22, 27 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

บ้านผาปืนแตก

Strike FortressBox 2001:FB1:32:6667:4C7B:1390:63A3:A805 (talk) 15:22, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Swan/Swanson

Why does the article attribute the system to both Richard Swan and Richard Swanson, both from the same company?

From all the references, it should be Richard Swan 2001:44C8:423E:E43F:4071:46F2:B5F5:D808 (talk) 04:08, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]