Thread: How to get 20 moa on a sako?

Originally Posted by dogmatix

Didn't Tussock or Gimp put a 20 MOA rail on theirs?

Roedale I think?

Originally Posted by kokako

Roedale I think?

Waitaki eng. I think...

This is the factory sako I found on euro optic
Looks the gears.
I hope they are a straight bolt on with no drilling and tapping ect

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

This is the factory sako I found on euro optic
Looks the gears.
I hope they are a straight bolt on with no drilling and tapping ect

Ummm, it looks like a Roedale rail. Three piece, the mounts fit by sliding onto the dovetails, and the rail screws down onto them. The front end of it slotted, so as to be able to fit S, M and L actions.
I've used the canted mounts from Richard Near in Canada, Near Manufacturing - Rifle Scope Bases , a really super nice guy to deal with, OR, I used the base and mount Optilock set up, not the one piece Ringmounts, and milled 0.028" off the top of the front base, thereby canting the scope for more elevation adjustment.
Gillie may be able to help.

B

Originally Posted by shift14

Ummm, it looks like a Roedale rail. Three piece, the mounts fit by sliding onto the dovetails, and the rail screws down onto them. The front end of it slotted, so as to be able to fit S, M and L actions.
I've used the canted mounts from Richard Near in Canada, Near Manufacturing - Rifle Scope Bases , a really super nice guy to deal with, OR, I used the base and mount Optilock set up, not the one piece Ringmounts, and milled 0.028" off the top of the front base, thereby canting the scope for more elevation adjustment.
Gillie may be able to help.

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Pete Lincoln (owner of Roedale Precision) had a bit of trouble with Euro Optics manufacturing copies of item they purchased from him.
That rail sure looks like a copy of one of Pete's rails.

Looking like going down rhe optilocks with burris angled inserts.
Any body done this to their sako?

They might be a different size, you might have to trim them. Not 100% sure.
I would check mine, but I can't be bothered re-zeroing after!

Waitaki Engineering did mine.
Excellent job.

Yep, i use the base and ring optilocks and places a shim in between the rear mount base and ring to give me the cant i required. Simple and works great.

Do you really need a rail or have you run out of dial up? I was looking at doing this on my 75 and was advised by my gunsmith that with the scope I am using I should have plenty of elevation to get to 1000. Plus a rail plus rings etc just creates another point of potential weakness.

Originally Posted by dogmatix

Try putting in the Burris Z Sig offset inserts into the optilocks?
I have a set of the 5/10/20 MOA inserts, had to use them for a sideways facing AK rail.

Have been wondering about how do get some more come up range on my 6.5 06AI which is built on a Sako 75 with 3.5 - 18x44 Swaro, cos I am limited to ~13 MOA dialup with this set up. Current set up gets me out to 700 - 850 yrds depending on pill, load and altitude.
Where can I get hold of the Burris MOA inserts?

Originally Posted by chainsaw

Have been wondering about how do get some more come up range on my 6.5 06AI which is built on a Sako 75 with 3.5 - 18x44 Swaro, cos I am limited to ~13 MOA dialup with this set up. Current set up gets me out to 700 - 850 yrds depending on pill, load and altitude.
Where can I get hold of the Burris MOA inserts?

Shameless plug for mine FS on TM at the moment, PM me if you wish.

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Hey Andy, I've got some Burris inserts I'm not using you can have.

Gives a txt if you want them.

Ray

Cheers ray.
Will do

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

Looking like going down the optilocks with burris angled inserts.
Any body done this to their sako?

We talked about this before. If the inserts don't work, can you mill off a bit from the bottom of the front ringmount ?

Optiloks or Leupold have two advantages over rails:
you still have plenty of room to top load the magazine. Thats one of the good features of the sako 75/85
Lowest system. Any rail raises by about 10mm. before long you need a messy raised cheek rest and can't get your cleaning rod down.
detachable rails all have dodgy screw down or tap in fixation. The sako is designed to bed the mount onto the flat action top under pressure from side screws acting on the undercut. This gives maximum side to side bearing surface. A detachable onesie would be good but it doesn't look as if MAK for instance has a 20MOA. I'm told the sako receiver is case hardened but softer inside so drill and tap would be a last resort. Would you machine off the knurling or not ....

Gillie's shim works extremely well in his hands field shooting with the .260, but in theory could be less stable than a ring insert for a knockabout hunting weapon or heavy kicker.

I never did get any slope on mine, just flat, and I would have to use a few mil dots beyond 900m. But its only intended for 500m, so not a problem.