30-06 and 6.5×55mm.īetween 19, Sako produced a lever-action gun, the Sako Finnwolf, in. In 1961, Sako introduced the L61R "Finnbear" for long cartridges like the. This is a "medium action" intended for the. In 1957, Sako launched a longer action, the L57, subsequently renamed L579 "Forester". 222 Remington cartridge and has a great reputation among aficionados. The L461 has been very popular in Finland and Sweden, especially chambered for the. This cartridge was designed for and well suited to capercaillie and black grouse hunting, a popular sport in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Sako developed the 7×33mm cartridge based on the 9×19mm Parabellum pistol cartridge, by making a longer case and "necking" the case down to 7 mm calibre (7.21 mm bullet diameter). The first civilian rifle bearing the Sako name was the L42 (Luodikko model 1942) chambered for the 7×33mm Sako cartridge, prototyped in 1942, and commercial production started after World War II.
After further organizational shifts in state ownership, the company was sold to the Italian Beretta Holding in 2000.
In 1986, the arms manufacturing division of the government-owned Valmet conglomerate (which itself had been derived from the Valtion Kivääritehdas, VKT) was merged with Sako and called Sako-Valmet, with ownership split evenly between Nokia and Valmet. Īnother Finnish firearms manufacturer Tikkakoski, which owned the Tikka brand, was merged into SAKO in 1983. Sako started exporting pistol cartridges to Sweden in the 1930s and continued manufacturing submachine gun cartridges through World War II. The Suojeluskuntain Yliesikunnan Asepaja moved from Helsinki to an ammunition factory in Riihimäki on 1 June 1927, and reorganized as SAKO in the 1930s. The rifle repair shop became financially independent of the civil guard in 1921. Such a scope can be mounted (preferably with rings contemporaneous with the rifle) low enough to offer practical eye alignment and be much better adapted to real world shooting.In 1919, two years after Finland declared independence from the Russian Empire, the Suojeluskuntain Yliesikunnan Asepaja (Civil Guard Supreme Staff Gun Works) opened in a former Helsinki brewery to repair private arms and recondition Russian military rifles for Finnish service. I'd recommend replacing the scope with one which has no objective bell and will sit to the rear of the ladder sight. The problem with this is that the L46 stock comb is rather low, so with the very high scope mounting you will find it impossible for your cheek to even touch the stock when your eye is aligned with the scope. The mounts are very high, as they have to be with this particular scope since it has to clear the ladder sight. The scope mounts are very late Sako Optilocks from the 2000's, which seem out of place on a rifle 50 years older. I do have one strong criticism of the way it is set up. While it is a very desirable rifle, this model is not scarce enough to be what most people would regard as "collectible". Such a rifle is only "collectible" in the sense that a Sako enthusiast might want one like it if he didn't already have one.
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Its serial number likely places it somewhere in the mid-1950's, but as Paulson says, that can be misleading and the only way to know when it was made is to consult the Club's factory records service. You’d be surprised of how much one can find out about a person from just a username on a forum such ad our! Then use the report function in each message or post so I can kick them out!īeware of anything that might seem fishy!Īnd again, for all of you who registered your personal name as username, please contact me so I can change it to a more anonymous username. Check them too and if they are long standing members, PM them and ask if the message is legit. Same goes for other members they might refer to. If they have no posts and signed up the same day or very recently, stay away.
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