Came across this by accident. I have a mid 60’s Sako so found this pretty interesting. Especially around 8:30 minutes into the video when they discuss the barrel making process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GVNo3OVwTE
Came across this by accident. I have a mid 60’s Sako so found this pretty interesting. Especially around 8:30 minutes into the video when they discuss the barrel making process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GVNo3OVwTE
Have a Sako 75 in 30-06. Very accurate rifle. Frank
I have collected SAKO's for years. I got my first L61 Finnbear in 7mm Rem. Mag. in 1967 and have got to say that it is one of the most accurate guns I own. It can't hold a candle to my SAKO 6mm-PPC USA though...
If you are going to make a hole in something. MAKE IT A BIG ONE!
I’ve always admired Sako guns. If I buy a new modem rifle, it will be a Sako.
An object of my desire, and what may be my retirement rifle, is their model 85 Mannlicher Bavarian Carbine in 30-06. Somehow, some day, this will be mine.
Last edited by fastdadio; 04-20-2023 at 01:56 PM.
Deplorable infidel
I had one in .244 Remington similar to that one.
We still have a round top Sako and two Tikka T3 rifles.
Great guns!
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My T-3 is more accurate than I am.
Slim
JUST GOTTA LOVE THIS JOINT.
Everyone in the family, who own a farm I hunt, uses a tikka. I wanted to pick up a .270 win and decided to get a tikka superlite stainless.
Of course they come with a 3 round flush fit mag so my very first 2 groups were only 3 rounds, with a randomly chosen handload.
Guess I'll be buying more tikkas
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Last edited by fatnhappy; 04-21-2023 at 08:55 PM.
Originally Posted by Theodore Roosevelt
sounds nice!I think I would go with 6.5 x 55 Swede.
#2 son bought a Tika ultra light in 6.5 Creedmore. Worked at Cabelas at the time and got some premium Federal ammo. Regularly shot 1/2 MOA. bought a bunch more of that ammo. He won't let me buy dies. As long as he just uses it as his main hunting rifle he has close to a lifetime supply. At the time he was shopping for a Tika ultra light in 7-08. Used one showed up When the 6.5 appeared. He shot the 6.5 first and promptly gave the 7-08 to his brother. Both my sons are very happy with their Tikas.
Every person I know that has a Sako or Tika is happywith them. Th old Sakos had a bevel scope mounting platform hat only used Sako bases, I imagine Sako gave up on that design idea. My early L Series Vixen Sako has such a scope mounting setup. As a 222 that little Vixen is a real shooter with an action slick a grease on a door knob.
“There is a remedy for all things, save death.“
Cervantes
“Never give up, never quit.”
Robert Rogers
Roger’s Rangers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
My Tika 30-06 will easily shoot 1/2” groups at 100 yards with my handloads with 165 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips.
All these how-we-make-our-guns videos leave me cold. They never show any cutting tool, never describe how a cut is made, never mention what type of steel is used, etc. It's just "here's the raw material and here's how it looks after we machine it. Aren't we wonderful?"
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |