Ok, we are arguing at work, I say it is sock-o. Like the things you put on your feet, sock! O! The guys I work with call them SAY-ko like the damn watch! Which is it?

Sock-o.

George

Absolutely Sock-o.

Anyone who doubts can listen to the promo on their website...

Tim

I've also heard it pronounced "dammitthisthing reallyshoots!"

Sah-ko

I've always imagined it's "Sackoe"...

Believe me, I know the Finns... ..and it goes something like this!

"Jarri! Dere runs de mooze! Greb yoor Zokko!"

"Naay Antti. I hed too much de Vodka. Use eensted yoor Rummingtoon..."

Most definitely Sock-O. And, it's actually an acronym - S.A.K.O.

I can't, for the life of me, remember what it stands for, though.

RSY

WHO GIVES A SHIT!

Daryl

Here it goes, from the frozen north, as Churchill said, Sako is in fact the old
Suojeluskunnan Ase- ja Konepaja Osakeyhti�.
And you pronounce it just like it is spelled
(it means something like Weapons- and Machineworks Company of the Civilguard..)

Today it is just Sako or something italian..

But in Finnish SAKO is pronounced Sa(a like in are)ko (o like in or), with the accent on the first syllable, and both syllables the same short pace, like an angry samurai would say it..

Boha (pronounced the same way)

I've always heard 'Sack- OH"

And Tikka is "Tick AHH"

Brno is "Bruno"

And Mauser is...well you know that one...

LMAO (at myself). Around here we call it "Say Koe". Long "A", long "O". After hearing all of y'all pronounce it "sock o" I realize I must truely sound like a redneck.

I just brought my first,an old 22.250 and it
will not be the last.Damn fine rifle is what I
call it.
Jeff

You guys crack me up!! I guess the same argument goes on on the other side of the world where a couple of finns are trying to figure out how to pronounce "Winchester" ( finns have a hard time speaking english since finnish has an entirely different origin in the finnish-ugrish languages as opposed to the english wich has its origin in the germanic languages)....
...from a guy thats spent some time in Finland and live in a country west of it...
...it�s really pronounced
Sackoh
...with a short a and o

And if you want to be perfect when referring to the company just put Oy after Sako, since thats the finnish equivalent of Inc. Like this

Sako Oy

Thanks, you guys made my day! I am still chuckliing!

In finnish Winchester is Vinsesteri or vinsu for short. Obvious, isn�t it.

But try this for a linguistic exercise:

Say fuck-o, exchange the F for S, and there you have it:

Suck-o = SAKO; and you are proficient in finnish.

And yes, a finn using a Remington must be very drunk..

Boha

Finns are known to handle rifles better if they are drunk!! (the finns that is)

Sock-o is right, but not many use it. Kind of like Franchi is pronounced "Frankie" but you hear all kinds of strange ways of saying it.

Bob257

please don't begin a new "how do you pronunce" cicle on Italian names..... I've just got up from floor where I dropped for laughing
really, please, don't.....
bye

I just say sako. And I call tikka tikka.

But then I'm a bit strange.

Johan

Husqvarna in Finnish?
"Who�s-queer-nah?

You never know..

Johan,
does tikka and sako words particular effects on you? Is it a Middle Norway characteristic?
Is it dangerous?
I prefer to feel myself a little strange for a strong drink (alchoolic I mean ) than for these words.

I ride and race Husqvarna motorcycles, we solve the pronunciation problems by simply calling them "Huskies" .
Going back to the FRANCHI name, how do you correctly pronounce that? I had quite a go-round with my ex-father in law one time about that one. He was a gun dealer at the time. He pronounced it, "Fraun-KI" long I.

After the ass chewings i have recieved for buying them....ANY WAY I PLEASE!!!! ...sakofan...or whatever

You can say all you want about the Finn's Drunk or Sober, they sure know how to shoot and how to build a rifle. Ask the Russians about it.

Well, being the uncivilized lout that I am, I call them SAY-koe, and if I had one, I'd mount a LEE-uh-pold scope on it. Course if SAY-koe made shotguns, I'd probably shoot sa-but slugs through it...

I say Sako as I always have, say-ko. I am aware this is wrong but decided I don't care. Regards, Bill.

I just got my eye on a nice Spanish sidelock shotgun, with the name of Ugartechea. Now pronounce that if you can!

Good grief Randy(Kudu56),get a life,go Bumble Bee hunting.lol derF

Jesus Christ!!! Do you really think the people of a land that kicked Russian butt in -39 would name a rifle something so ugly-sounding as Sock-o!! And the pronounciation of Sako as Sayco is at best disgusting!! I say it again and I�ll keep saying it until death....
Sah-koh!!! with a short a and an equally short o!!!

Sack-Oh, am I right or wrong here? My M-39 Finn rework was reworked by this company.

Thanks Orion1, I thought I was the oddball here.

If it's an acronym, it doesn't matter how you pronounce it, it isn't like a proper name. Porsche is a good example of a named product that gets mis-pronounced a lot. You hear it pronounced "Porsh" when it should be "Por-sha" (short a), because it is a proper name, and whomever's name it is, gets to decide how to pronounce it. I've always had trouble with the english "Smythe" though. FWIW - Dan

Freddo, no limit and no season!

Socko be what I shootin. Got the lewpold scope too.