Some users are not allowed to check action screws. Which to me is wrong but cannot persuade employers to think otherwise. Same employees are allowed to change a wheel on a vehicle.
Sako 90
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My employer won’t allow any of us to change a wheel in our vans. Fortunately they don’t have anything to do with my firearms do all my action screws are torqued up correctly.
Oh God, that will be the next thing, we won't be allowed to do, I best keep quiet
No skin off my nose (knuckles) as is they want to pay me £45k p.a. To wait for the AA then
I also had problems on a new Sako 85 Hunter in 308. It would not hold zero. Upon advice from a renown local game keeper I returned the rifle to the Gunshop. They got it to shot 1” group at 100 yards after adjustment and opined that the ammo was to blame (Hornady 150gr SST) but that it did just fine in Fedral Premium 150gr. Took the rifle down the range and managed to shoot 1” groups at 100yards with Fedral premium, PPU and Hornady SST all 150gr. Not the ammo then! After a while the rifle started to walk off zero and it was not possible to get the bullets into 12” square at 100 yards. The gun shop would not tell me what they adjusted to get the rifle to hold zero. Taking the stock off the rifle to dry it properly after getting drenched in the woods I saw the awful recoil lug system. A L shaped metal plate held in the stock with two small wood screws fitting into an oversized slot in the wooden stock The action had a lozenge shaped lug on the underside where the front action screw fits which floated around a large oversized hole in the recoil lug. The action moved under recoil in the stock as shown by the marks scratched in the stock where the rear of the action sits. The whole arrangement relies on the action screws being properly torqued to keep it all still under recoil. The action screws fit through the metal trigger guard through some oversized holes in the stock into the underside of the steel action. Wood sandwiched between two pieces of metal. Wood expands and contracts in response to variation in atmospheric moisture content - metal does not. Net result is torque on the action screws varies a lot and the screws work loose and the action moves in the stock under recoil. Bullets start to fly all over the place. I had the action pillar bedded by a rifle smith who sets up F1 target rifles for wanna be Olympian shooters. Now the action screws pass through the metal trigger guard straight into a metal tube that is glued into the stock into the metal action - an all metal sandwich that does not change in response to atmospheric humidity and constant unvarying torque (5Nm is what I choose) is maintained at all times. The result is a rifle that holds zero and is good good for 1MoA every time I take it out to shoot deer - come rain or shine. The original recoil system as fitted by Sako is not fit for purpose and will always suffer from problems. Therefore to get a Sako 85 to hold zero the customer is forced to remedy the poor poor recoil lug mating the stock to the action as supplied by the manufacturer. Once that is done the rifle performs as reliably as you hoped it would when you paid for it.
alberta boy
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I'd buy it in a heart beat .................... but you already know that . A genuinely useful firearm .Mauser 98 is not being used anymore by forces that can use more reliable rifles when it really counts.
First thing I did with my Mauser was get rid of the top load drop plate set-up and replaced it with central feed aics magazine. Much more reliable, more capacity If I need it. Most of my visitors get to use this rifle, just about all want to buy it.
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