Dovetail joint dovetails completely from view. The sliding dovetail is a method of joining two boards at right angles, where the intersection occurs within the field of one of the boards, that is not at the end. This joint provides the interlocking strength of a dovetail. Sliding dovetails are assembled by sliding the tail into the socket. It is common to slightly taper the socket, making it slightly tighter towards the rear of the joint, so that the two components can be slid together easily but the joint becomes tighter as the finished position is reached. Another method to implement a tapered
Dovetail rail Blaser Saddle Mount or Recknagel Swing Mount. Dovetail mounts are today mostly found on light recoiling air guns, but can also be found on some modern rifles for hunting and sport shooting using smokeless powder, although other options such as the picatinny rail are becoming more popular. Some examples of rifles with different types of rails: Dovetails are also integrated into some rifles most noticeably the L85A2 and A1 varients of the SA80 bullpup rifle for mounting the iron sights and the SUSAT sighting system but in recent times has been changed Picatinny rail in place of it as Dovetails