Thread: Walnut and blued steel,

New scope and quick release mount on the 9.3x74, hoping to get it sum what dialed in this days off, but very cold -40 last ten days,
Leupold 1x4 x20 pig plex, I like it, seven lbs even for weight scoped,

After years of looking, I just picked up my holy grail, of Varminting/Predator rifle.
A Sako A1 repeater in 6PPC, I've mounted a Leopold 2x7x33, Its in very tidy condition and no marks, or rust, nice balance,
I've got a couple hundred Sako brass, and have ordered neck bushing, in .269
Hopefully lives up to expectations,

Originally Posted by southernman

After years of looking, I just picked up my holy grail, of Varminting/Predator rifle.
A Sako A1 repeater in 6PPC, I've mounted a Leopold 2x7x33, Its in very tidy condition and no marks, or rust, nice balance,
I've got a couple hundred Sako brass, and have ordered neck bushing, in .269
Hopefully lives up to expectations,
Attachment 104675

Very Nice & very lucky to find. Would go well on your next visit to Central Otago....

Originally Posted by southernman

New scope and quick release mount on the 9.3x74, hoping to get it sum what dialed in this days off, but very cold -40 last ten days,
Leupold 1x4 x20 pig plex, I like it, seven lbs even for weight scoped, Attachment 104674

Beautiful! But ouch, I imagine she kicks?

Originally Posted by southernman

New scope and quick release mount on the 9.3x74, hoping to get it sum what dialed in this days off, but very cold -40 last ten days,
Leupold 1x4 x20 pig plex, I like it, seven lbs even for weight scoped, Attachment 104674

What make is that double? Very cool

Originally Posted by LOC

What make is that double? Very cool

Its a Fair I-side, posted up a few pages back in this thread, lovely handling rifle, I am going, to order a second set of rifle barrels, in 7x57R, after this winters work season.
As Thar has eluded too, its a bit of a mule of the bench, No problem standing, might be a bit tamer now, with an extra lb of scope and mount, and I am loading up 250gr Accubonds to sight in with the scope, instead of 286,

Stug,
very nice rifles there and awesome cartridges!

cheers

Well I thought I'd post up a few photos of a few firearms which a few people would be keen to see photos of.

I have my good mate Maurice to blame who bought a late model Sako A1 .223 a few years back which I was fortunate enough to get to use.

I had it in my possession for a short period of time where I did the load development for it with 63 gr Sierras and it shot beautifully.

When you get a rifle like that in your possession you realise how stunning the actions are, the fact it holds seven rounds in the internal magazine, the balance of the rifle though with that rifle it had the later model stock which is more suited for right handed shooters than us lefties but I still enjoyed carrying that rifle around where I shot a couple of goats and christened it on a sika hind.

Then I met a certain hard cased individual who's been nothing but shits and giggles and a negative influence on my bank account!

Through him I really got to appreciate the Sako vixens as he has a few on hand so his addiction has become contagious so I knew I had to get one for myself though I was always wanting to get a L461 for a project build and re barrel it into a 6x45 but when my mate pointed out a certain A1 on trade me at an extremely good price I clicked on the buy now and got that rifle and haven't looked back.



The thing I love with that rifle is again the smooth action, internal magazine and has the more user friendly (leftie) stock, it still fits me very well and is just a joy to hold, carry and shoot.

There's something stunning about shooting a .222 even though I have a .223 which I've used a lot, the .222 just feels different when shooting it even though there's bugger all difference.

So back to the story... Well... Not long after buying the A1 I came across a L461 .222 for sale which my mate also pointed out to me and even though I thought I could ignore it... denile… I couldn't so alas the bank account took another hit and so the A1 has a little friend in the cabinet.

If you own a A1 then you need a L461 and I know some day when I die my kids will likely fight over the A1 so I figured or at least justified to myself they can now have one each... that's what I'll tell the wife anyway if she ever finds out. :-[ :-[ :-/ :-/ :'( :'(







With old rifles like this you often wonder the story of where it's been, adventures had in the hills, the joy its bought.

The other rifle I have is a Sako 85 .222 but it's not mine!





It's been given to me to look after while its owner is working overseas for the next few years so I get to look after it until his return.

It's quite nice to compare the early Sako's to modern day Sako's and while the modern day rifles are well made I prefer hands down the earlier vixen's as their lighter, better balanced, machined and just scream class!

Jeez John you need to get some talleys for those beauties,tidies them up no end.

Leupold makes some nice mounts for sakos that would be much nicer than talleys on those small action rifles

Get Conetrols. They're nicer than both Leupolds and Talleys...

Get some genuine classy mounts ... conetrol

Ha ha… those are original sako mounts/rings and do the bizo nicely

What caliber do you have there on ya BSA @sneeze ? Also can't make out is it a Monarch?

Looks like a regent in .222 or .22 Hornet

Very nice rifle