Interesting you should mention them as in terms of cost I doubt they will be far behind the German brand referred to given the current £/$ rate. Circa £350 and that’s before postage and import duty!Don't lose Conetrol when you see the price...
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Quick-Release Mounts/Rings for Sako 75
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The thread's not about one of these. The OP has a Sako 75.
HonestJohn
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Makuick are excellent - and not ugly! MAKuick One-piece Mount, Sako 85 S, 34mm
I don't consider the rings that are one piece each look clunky - though I'd agree that the ring/base combination ones are inelegant.
As for running the taper forwards until it goes no further, I think this is a novelty in SAKO's instructions - and perhaps a not altogether welcome one; though they've not explained why the instructions changed.
My installations were all done on the instructions current at the time, and this allowed the forward mount's position to adjust windage (if the one-piece ring) or to sit neatly-flush with the front of the receiver-opening (if the base of a two-piece). Nothing is wedged on, and after removal the return to zero on replacement is good.
HonestJohn
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yes, the two piece optilocks are an abomination and just waiting for the day when the bottom screw going up into the rings 'gives' a bit, and a zero is off..only way to be sure is to take the whole damn thing apart - bloody useless pieces of crap IMHO.
RUSAN makes beautiful 1 piece rings as well btw. they might do a 'thumb screw roll off type'
Optics Trade EU
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In our experience, a lot of scope mounts prove to be rather troublesome on Sako 75. Two of the main issues we see are that most of them are not repeatable and some even fall off due to the recoil. On the other hand, Optilock bases have an opposite problem: they get sort of stuck after repeated use due to the recoil. They get "hammered" on the receiver to the point where it's very hard to get them off.
Our recommendation to you would be to search for pivot mounts and Dentler bases.
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LAairhunter
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I’ve generally been unhappy with the Optilock system - i don’t find their QD system consistently repeatable (i’ve used it on our Sako 85 guns). In the process of looking for mounts that allow for railed scopes to be mounted on the Sako 85, i discovered Dentler mounts. Procuring them was slightly tricky as i live in the USA, but the Dentler mount for the Sako 85 works well, is “repeatable”, and rock-solid. i tried some other, third-party, European mounts for the Sako 85, and Dentler is the best imho.
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How difficult can it be to drill & tap the receiver? I did exactly that on my Daystate air rifle without managing to drill into the loading port and all with an electric screwdriver rather than a pillar drill. Just use the mount holes to mark where you’ll lightly centre punch or if the mounts can be positioned with grip just use the hole as the drill bit guide.
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HonestJohn
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Not hard with the right tools if the receiver isn’t hardened ‘too’ hard.
However, with the Sako dovetail system you are putting bases on a receiver top that’s not full receiver width, so won’t look ‘great’, also, if there’s a height differential between the front and rear bridge you may not be able to find bases designed for that height differential as the 75 receiver wasn’t designed for drilled bases
Neil McKillop drills and taps the receiver for his picatinny rails so it can be done.
Why you would ever want to when just fitting rings is beyond me. The one piece mount is aesthetically pleasing.
The op should have thought about scope mounts before buying the rifle...
My 75 receiver has 4x 6-48 tapped holes for a custom mount - very easy job for a gunsmith.
My 75 receiver has 4x 6-48 tapped holes for a custom mount - very easy job for a gunsmith.
I must have owned and used a couple of dozen Sako rifles over the years. Never had the Optilock mounts seize on the rail.
Never had them fall off.
Never had them not be repeatable.
Sounds like you're doing something wrong or trying to sell Dentler bases (whatever the hell they are).
Thus reducing value of rifle by at least half if not totally unsaleable.
Dentler are far from aesthetically pleasing. The height they add is unbelievable.
'Honey, what's that noise?'
'Oh, don't worry darling, that's just the sound of my rifle's resale value going down the drain.'
LAairhunter
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Aesthetically, I agree - the Dentler mounts aren't beautiful, but they're not awful either.
Height-wise, I also agree, it puts the scope higher than we normally like it to be here in the USA - that's actually the Dentler mounts' biggest drawback IMHO. However, I've always been pretty impressed with how high scopes seem to be mounted in Europe. Notwithstanding the Blaser mount system (which is superb at keeping the scope low), most of the scope mount alternatives in Europe seem to be fairly high. I see that trend also becoming more common here in the USA as people mount bigger and bigger scopes (particularly the tactical / long-range scopes).
Regarding repeatability, my experience with the Optilock system with QD mounts is that it's not too reliable in terms of repeatability. I don't know if it was the polymer inserts in the rings, or something innate to the Sako mount, but I wasn't getting German-like repeatability.
Just my .02,
Mark
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