Thread: Sako problems

Yes, I wondered about those two pins. I contemplated pulling them out (mine are quite tight) or else hammering them in thinking they could be loose and working their way out. Looking carefully at the parts diagram in the manual I decided they were both essential and meant to stick out like they do in your first photo. One holds the bolt stop in place.

See this post. In the end, Beretta did get some sub moa groups but not as accurate as other guns Andy Animal has.

An average of several 5 shots groups is quite a high standard of accuracy. Also expensive to verify if using factory ammo. eg Tikka is only guaranteed for 3 shot groups. A lot of shooters will fire 2 or 3 x 3 shot groups and accept the best of them as the rifle's "accuracy".

Mine (7mm08 85 StainlessSynthetic) struggles to group 30mm at 100m. I've thought of several possibilities:
The 3 bolt lugs definitely don't all bear evenly.
The ally bedding block has a nick where I wrestled it out with pliers.
There was a chip out of the plastic in the bedding when I got it (new).
I might have crushed the plastic stock by supertightening the bedding screws.
The side walls of the action touch the stock (Nathan Foster has identified this as a potential problemt .)
Can't reach the lands with mag length reloads.
Could be residual fouling
Maybe it will never shoot real well with a synthetic stock and needs a MacMillan or a bedding job.
Maybe its only spec'd to shoot MOA and the majority of owners won't ever be sure it doesn't shoot better and think that's just fine. Only a few obsessive and confident shooters will complain about it and we don't know if its a 5% problem or 50% are like this.

The annoying thing is that 1" is fine for hunting out to 300m. I'm finding it hard to justify more effort and expense to try and improve on that.

The really great features of the sako are: good trigger, simple reliable action with metal shroud etc, 5 shot detachable metal mag that sits flush in the stock (very few rifles have this), top loading through the action, nice finish, rugged, taper rail and plastic inserts in the optilock rings making trouble free scope mounting by ordinary hunters. So its a very good general hunting rifle out of the box but maybe not a high accuracy design - which all brands need some work to achieve.

My own next step will be to ask Beretta NZ before going for truing, new stock etc. Will be very interested to see any other advice or success stories posted here.