Sako stocks breaking down

[Voyage]

Not sure if anyone has had the same problem as myself, but very disappointing when you buy a good brand and they don’t stick by their customers.
I have now sold two of my sako rifles before they get in the same mess as my last sako which I have had to scrub the melting sticky rubber off, to be able to use it.
It will have lost all value now.
So any one on here with sako synthetic stocks keep an eye on them.

 

[Dalua]

Which model of rifle/s is affected, and how old are they, please? I've got a 75, which must be at least 15 years old - and it seems to be holding up fine.

 

[csl]

Has some form of light oil (e.g. brake cleaner, deet etc.) made it onto it?

 

[HonestJohn]

Wood might be a future development idea for stock making, crazy thought I know

 

[palo]

Which model of rifle/s is affected, and how old are they, please? I've got a 75, which must be at least 15 years old - and it seems to be holding up fine.

The 75 stocks are ok. Its the soft touch synthetic stocks that they used on the 85 models that cause problems

 

[Night òwl]

One of mine has been stripped of the sticky sako coating, the other is due now as gone the same

 

[oldhamstocks]

Carbonlight 85 stock coping with Scottish muck and mirk with aplomb, would be surprised if the Sahara or the savannah bothered it.

 

[Ronin]

75 synthetic was prone to becoming sticky if used with repellant on hands

 

[Voyage]

Which model of rifle/s is affected, and how old are they, please? I've got a 75, which must be at least 15 years old - and it seems to be holding up fine.

Sako 85 about 5 years old, well looked after, but well used. No chemical's used on stock.
The other rifle had only about 150 rounds out of it. Very disappointing.
I have keep one which I scrubbed and will restock sometime.
But never again will I buy sako

Carbonlight 85 stock coping with Scottish muck and mirk with aplomb, would be surprised if the Sahara or the savannah bothered it.

Hopefully the carbon light are holding up, but my friend that I sometimes stalk with has gotten rid of his as it was starting to be a bit sticky around the grip.

One of mine has been stripped of the sticky sako coating, the other is due now as gone the same

You would think sako would offer at least a replacement stock at cost.
I see the new 90 has very little of that rubber on them. I wonder will it break down too.

The 75 stocks are ok. Its the soft touch synthetic stocks that they used on the 85 models that cause problems

And the A7 model too

 

[long_range_rob]

75 synthetic was prone to becoming sticky if used with repellant on hands

And who was the genius that developed a Sako 75 repellent

 

[Voyage]

Very true!!

 

[8x57]

And who was the genius that developed a Sako 75 repellent

Some insect repellants are quite harmful to synthetic stocks. The army reported problems with jungle formula and synthetic stocks some years ago.

 

[baguio]

Had my Sako 85 about 15 years with no issue. However, I don't clean it very often and definitely do let chemicals or oil on the stock. The stock is starting to wear now so might need a replacement stock soon, but I have no issue with that after a lot of use.

 

[Klenchblaize]

Products exhibiting this horrible stickiness somewhere in the house as of writing:
1. Expensive Olight hand-held lamp
2. Expensive fold out sola panel battery charger
3. Two expensive USB type battery chargers
4. Two TV/Hi-Fi remote controllers
5. Electric toothbrush
6. Cheap hand-held fox caller
7. Cheap pair of miniature binos
8. Digital radio
9. A pair of two-way hand-held radios
10. Bread knife handle
11. Travel mug

I could go on!

K

 

[Voyage]

You would think sako would have picked up on this, before using soft touch rubber

 

[jon2]

The issue here is that the 85 model onwards isn’t actually a Sako. It is a Beretta badged as Sako and hence the quality is compromised. If you want a Sako you have got to be looking at a 75 model or earlier.

 

[bogtrotter]

Has some form of light oil (e.g. brake cleaner, deet etc.) made it onto it?

Deet is a killer of synthetic stocks, rubber clad bino.s etc.

 

[dlz90]

My sako 85 is thirteen seasons old the stock long ago lost the rubber overlay it's got deep scratches all over it from the life it's had, it still shoots straight as a bead if I do my part and that's all I need.

I bought a second hand stock to replace the torn up one but never fitted it it and probably never will.




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[reddragon]

The issue here is that the 85 model onwards isn’t actually a Sako. It is a Beretta badged as Sako and hence the quality is compromised. If you want a Sako you have got to be looking at a 75 model or earlier.

Be very interested to hear where you had this information? many thanks

 

[Bavarianbrit]

This soft touch is a selling of new stuff trick as it feels more user friendly to the customer. The slop is made of ground up rubber granules mixed with plastic pellets as in normal injection moulding, the machine moulds first the main plastic item then the moulds do a dance around/switch where then comes a stand off of a few mm of free space, then this heated slop is injected into that gap giving the tailored soft touch area. In the auto business it came out that the hand cream used in the Arabian part of the world by their females was melting this slop. I am having it coming of a Bosch drill at the moment as a sticky grease like making my fingers black, hard to scrub off too.