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What are those lever actions like? They pop up every now and again over here.
Anyone got a L461 or A1 Mannlicher Carbine they want to sell or trade.Ideally in Trebly.Cheers
Cool thread nice Sako rifles everyone.
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The much maligned Sako A7. 20" fluted Hardy 300saum barrel and Stug stock. As good a rifle as I've ever owned and the only ever Sako. Bought from @Dreamer in 270wsm. Will never part with it.
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A Finnish knock off of the earlier Winchester Model 88.Some parts are interchangeable.A beautifully engineered geared action providing silky smooth mechanical advantage when racking it.Very heavy gatts.Intraguite parts along the lines of a Swiss watch movement.Not ideal for wet NZ bush stalking conditions with all those fine moving parts as they can get fowled with gunk entering the port.Fine intraguite trigger mechanism with the best release of any lever gun.All good stuff to fill in a wet day in a hut to field strip on your seventh brew,til the whole shebang goes twang ,spraying minute parts all over the hut.Hopefully find all those missing parts on brew #9 then try and figure how it all goes back together and function by #11 .Tack drivers like all Sakos,but let themselves down in my opinion by only being feed by a 3 or 4 round box mag negating the point of speedy lever gun follow up shots .The Duke never used one
Sako 85 .270 in Africa. Elephant print for scale haha
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Absolutely beautiful rifle from back in the day. Always dreamed about owning one but way above my paygrade. After a fair bit of use mechanical issues let them down so their reliability and demand was poor.
Still, 50 years on I still think they're a classic. Probably don't need both balls these days so would gladly swap one for a Finnwolf :thumbsup:
I adore the L46, 461, Vixen and A1 models in 222 / 223.
My only complaint is the mag box length for 223 and a lack of feed ramp when using 223 with flat nosed projectiles in the 55-62gr weight range.
The overall weight for such a small package is something I think could be improved, hence the carbon stock.
Can you buy a carbon stock for a L461?