Patent ID: 8533988

Claim:
A mounting system for mounting a sighting telescope onto a firearm, wherein the firearm and/or the sighting telescope are aligned in a mounted position in an axial direction, the mounting system comprising: a first mechanical interface configured to arrest the sighting telescope on the firearm; and a second mechanical interface configured to allow the sighting telescope to pivot from a mounted position on the firearm in a plane formed by the sighting telescope and the axial direction of the firearm, wherein the first mechanical interface includes an arresting foot attachable to a sighting telescope or a firearm; and an arresting holding device affixable to the firearm or the telescope, wherein the arresting foot comprises at least one support surface and the arresting holding device comprises at least one connection surface, wherein the support surface and the connection surface meet in a contact area so as to provide a form-fit connection of the arresting foot on the arresting holding device in a first radial direction, wherein the arresting foot and the arresting holding device form an arrest which detachably affixes the arresting foot in the other radial direction in an arresting position of the arrest, wherein the support surface and the connection surface are designed so that the arresting foot is arrested in the arresting holding device in different angle positions around at least two pivot axes relative to the arresting holding device, the at least two pivot axes selected from the group including: a radially aligned pivot axis, which runs through the arresting holding device and/or the arresting foot and allows the arresting foot to be arrested in different yaw angle positions about the radially aligned pivot axis; an axially aligned pivot axis, which allows the arresting foot to be arrested in different roll angle positions about the axially aligned pivot axis; and a transversely aligned pivot axis, which runs through the arresting holding device and/or the arresting foot and allows the arresting foot to be arrested in different pitch angle positions about the transversely aligned pivot axis.