I recently found a cheap Sako 85 Brown Bear in 450 Rigby. It comes with 18 rounds, because the current/original owner shot it twice, then decided he didn't want it anymore.

I recall some people were claiming to have ejection issues with big caliber Sako 85's that were scoped.

Is this a real problem??

Thanks!!

I know a guy that has one in .500 Jeffery. I’ll ask him if he has had ejection issues.
I thought it was mainly the standard .30/06 length action that caused problems.

He said he doesn’t have a scope on his .500 but that cases still get dinged up on the action when ejected.
I have a 75 in .375 that doesn’t suffer any problems.

Do a google search on "Sako ejection problems" and you'll see there is a problem. Seems the problem is more pronounced in the longer (06, 270, 7mag) length actions than the short actions. Sako put the ejector in the six o'clock position on this action. Ejected rounds tend to travel straight up and hit the scope which causes them to fall back into the action jamming things up.

A friend of mine bought a new Sako 85 in 7mm Rem. mag. He used one inch Sako ring mounts with a 3.5x10x40 Leupold scope. He had the problem. Not every shot but often enough to be a real problem. Ejected rounds hit the scope and fell back into the action frequently. Happened often enough that it scratched the finish on the scope. Beretta won't do anything to correct this design deficiency. They just told him to try a different ring/scope combination.

He wound up selling the rifle. Although I really like the older Sako's I'd recommend you look elsewhere, especially if you have any intention of using the rifle for dangerous game hunting.

It is a real problem.
How a company like Sako could make such a mistake is hard to imagine.

Yes, for a company with such a big reputation you wonder if they sometimes design with one hand on the vodka bottle. The one I could never understand was when they had the a gas port venting into the left lug runway, which still had no coverage from the bolt shroud.

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It is a real problem. How a company like Sako could make such a mistake is hard to imagine.

What's even worse is they refuse to acknowledge the problem exists and won't due anything to correct their mistake.

I refuse to use sakos or tikkas in any dangerous situation for this reason. I have gotten rid of everyone except a super accurate tikka I used for sheep hunting. It will still fail to eject properly and will sometimes throw a case back into ejection port. Stick with Mauser claw or double

I have a brown bear in 450 Rigby

and no ejection problem I have the low optilock rings whit a Swarovski and it does not hit the scope and if it did I was told to use medium rings
I have tape a ruler on the receiver to see if it would eject and it did but hit the ruler
my brass are Norma

I had a Kodiak .375H&H (scoped) and a Brown Bear .500J (unscoped) and never had any ejection issues with either, and each one killed a lot of buffalo up close.

forgot to mention
I had a kodiak in 375 before I traded it for the brown bear 450 and no ejection problem with the Swarovski mounted on it same ring optilock low.....
on both I tried slow feeding fast and same A ok