MackayRSA
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The no.1's are a very nice looking gun!
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The no.1's are a very nice looking gun!
I have 3, also a 1V in 6mm Rem and 1B in 270.
Green and black ink applied with a feather. I may do it again one day but this time have it sprayed with a satin poly finish to seal-in what is easily rubbed off as I found out when attempting to create an oil finish!
You can see the pale brown starting to show through on the below which isn't wholly unattractive but not what I had in mind:
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MackayRSA
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I think it looks fantastic! Perhaps I may even look at doing something similar with the one I'm getting eventually.
I assume the bolt handle was your handiwork too?
MackayRSA
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So I decided enough was enough and went and picked up this little beauty today
A sako a2 fullstock. Currently fitted with a vortex 3-9x50 as that's all I had spare in 1inch tube. Looking to pick up a set of 30mm optilock rings then I can replace it with a ziess diavari 1.5-6x42 that'll be much more in keeping with the style.
I've also ended up with a pair of vintage sako scope mounts, for a 1inch tube like the ones below. Anyone know anything about these?
A sako a2 fullstock. Currently fitted with a vortex 3-9x50 as that's all I had spare in 1inch tube. Looking to pick up a set of 30mm optilock rings then I can replace it with a ziess diavari 1.5-6x42 that'll be much more in keeping with the style.
I've also ended up with a pair of vintage sako scope mounts, for a 1inch tube like the ones below. Anyone know anything about these?
Lovely! Is it 243 by chance?
Action should be slick as a lizard's tongue!
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Action should be slick as a lizard's tongue!
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Pine Marten
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Nice purchase, let us know how it shoots! I take it that the barrel isn't free floated, with that barrel band. A few sessions with linseed oil should bring out the lines of that stock.
Lovely old Sako rifle and just what I would have chosen if I had space for a Stutzen. I have a couple of sets of these older sako mounts. They are windage adjustable and in my opinion far superior to optilocks which have a habit of moving out of line unless you super glue them. I personally would keep these mounts on the stutzen and look for a nice period scope to match.
Enjoy your new rifle and let us know how it shoots!
Best regards
Tarvie
MackayRSA
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Yup a 243, and the action is a real smooth. I'm very happy with it.
MackayRSA
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Were the older sako mounts available in 30mm? I've got an old zeiss diavari that would look real good on this gun but its a 30mm tube and the mounts I have are 1inch
It may be the one I looked at 2-years running on a stand at the Bisley Phoenix show!
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MackayRSA
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I'm glad you didn't buy it haha. I'm looking forward to going out and putting some rounds through it now. Sadly the only ammunition I have is ppu as thats all they had in stock. Hopefully it likes em
I can understand the appeal of the vintage Sako mounts/rings but you probably know what I'm going to say would ' make' that rifle if topped with a period steel-bodied Austrian scope. If you dont allow me to confirm the manufacturer of projectionless rings begins with C and ends with L!
You have a delightful bit of kit and I hope it turns out to be everything you hope for.
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Here are some old SAKO mounts on a non-Stützen AII. S&B query...
Not sure about 30mm, but the ones in my pics are 26mm low , and I have others in 1", stamped 25,4
I think they came in low, medium and high - and the ones you depict are AFAIK high - like these Sako 26mm High Old style Mounts Used Emma Rifles also have some, though the price is slightly different.
When I first got some of these, I read as many instructions as I could from threads such as this How to mount/adjust vintage Sako scope mounts? and then decided on how to procede.
One important message is not to overtighten the screw that clamps onto the dovetail. It is easily done, and is bad: it is knurled for fingers and has a coin-size slot for good reason, I think.
Wind-adjustment in mounts can be useful, when it isn't a PITA. One the whole, one might favour mounts which offer fewer opprotunities for cocking things up. The one-piece Optilock mounts allow some wind-adjusment by fore-and-aft movement of the forward mount - I think 1mm moves POI ~1" at 100m, or so.
Not sure about 30mm, but the ones in my pics are 26mm low , and I have others in 1", stamped 25,4
I think they came in low, medium and high - and the ones you depict are AFAIK high - like these Sako 26mm High Old style Mounts Used Emma Rifles also have some, though the price is slightly different.
When I first got some of these, I read as many instructions as I could from threads such as this How to mount/adjust vintage Sako scope mounts? and then decided on how to procede.
One important message is not to overtighten the screw that clamps onto the dovetail. It is easily done, and is bad: it is knurled for fingers and has a coin-size slot for good reason, I think.
Wind-adjustment in mounts can be useful, when it isn't a PITA. One the whole, one might favour mounts which offer fewer opprotunities for cocking things up. The one-piece Optilock mounts allow some wind-adjusment by fore-and-aft movement of the forward mount - I think 1mm moves POI ~1" at 100m, or so.
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As far as I know I have never seen these older Sako mounts in 30mm and although the windage adjustment is useful I rarely use it and as you say the Sako dovetails do the same thing. I just like the quality engineering on these mounts and the way they keep the scope snug to the action.
Tarvie
The 1978 Stoeger 'Shooter's Bible' lists described them as being available in low, medium and high, for 1" and 26mm only.
The low ones are certainly nice and low - just the thing for sensible-sized 'scopes.
Does anyone happen to know the date when the old pattern was discontinued, and the Optilocks launched?
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There is already a pic of my rifle further back, but I thought I would share some of how the rifle is performing.
A nice buck taken of sticks and dropped where he stood.
And a pic of this home loads performance Sierra 130 game changer that’s a 5 shot group @ 100 meters of a bag. It does the same thing with 100 grain Nosler BT’s
I get that good feeling every time I get it out of the cabinet.
A nice buck taken of sticks and dropped where he stood.
And a pic of this home loads performance Sierra 130 game changer that’s a 5 shot group @ 100 meters of a bag. It does the same thing with 100 grain Nosler BT’s
I get that good feeling every time I get it out of the cabinet.
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Old pattern ditched around the time the L series was discontinued (according to the great Sako collectors forum).
Might know someone who has a couple original pattern Sako dovetail mounts... @Freeforester
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