Didn't want to hijack GEB's thread. This is a receiver that I just passed on to another gentleman.

The next one is a single shot in 222 that I started with a receiver with no bolt release or sear. I had to manufacture. This is my first and last wood stock that I carved.



The 2 photos below show the bolt release and housing that I had to machine. I have all of the bolt release, housing, and sear on floppy disc if anybody needs to borrow them. I never found the parts, so I had to make them.


I enjoyed building it and it shot very well. I put a Shilen CM barrel on it.
Butch

Nice......

First and last stock? Did you do the checkering?


Although I don't play in the arena anymore,and my ignorance may be showing, but Wire EDM for the part? What metal did you use for your sear. Did you have it case hardened or did you use a steel such as 4140 and have it heat treated to a certain Brinnell hardness.

I've recently picked up two Sako l61r beater rifles for cheap. Good donor actions though. Sooner or later I'll do something with them. I'm still toying with the idea of another 257 Weatherby and a 300 H & H. However my desire for a Merkel K3 Jagd Stutzen is getting in the way. So many rifles and such limited funds. Bummer.

GWB

Nice rifle. On some of those early SAKO 222 rifles, weren't some of the barrels made by Marlin? My cousin has one and it's stamped Marlin on the barrel. What's the deal there?

SmokinJ,
They did have some Marlin multigroove barrels.
GWB
The sear and bolt release were Wire EDM. The sear was S-7 heat treated to about 55RC. I drilled the starter hole for the wire and had the metal heat treated. I surface ground to thickness and then the wire EDM. I had a friend in Missouri do the checkering.
Butch

Thanks for the reply!

Once again, nice rifle, nice work, nice pix.


Best

GWB

Nice work Butch and thanks for info on the Marlin barrels.

Wonderful,

Thanks I love thse old SAKOs

SSR

The Marlin M322 was actually a SAKO action .222 with a heavy Marlin barrel, and American furniture, marketed by Marlin around the beginning of the 1960's. It was a very nice rifle with a micro-groove barrel, and was/is highly esteemed for its accuracy.

I have owned a couple of the M322s. Eventually they were traded off because at the time I was more of a "walking varmint hunter" and they were a bit heavy to tote all day or to shoot offhand. It could be done, but there were easier rifles to use....

quote:

Originally posted by Alberta Canuck:
Thje Marlin M322 was actually a Sako action .222 with a heavy barrel, and American furniture, marketed by Marlin around the beginning of the 1960's. It was a very nice rifle with a micro-groove barrel, and was highly esteemed in its day for its accuracy.

I have owned a couple of them. Ev3erually they were traded off because at the time I was more of a "walking varmint hunter" and they were a bit heavy to tote all day or to shoot offhand. It could vbe done, but there were easier rifles to use....

My cousin and I use to shoot that 222 Marlin barreled SAKO action of his (his dad's then) when we were in high school and I can attest to the great accuracy of it. He still has it.

here's a couple more old sako HB. top one is a 222 mag i built way back when, and the bottom one is one of al lind/don allens

Pretty nice Sakos Butchloc! Is that your hair in the bottom right?
Butch

yeah i was sitting down and it slipped out between the cheeks (really its a piece from a bison rug

Wow, they sure don't make them like that anymore.
You're lucky to own them.

Butchloc,

would I be far off if I were to suggest that the stock on the bottom rifle would be of unusually exceptional quality for a factory Sako, even a deluxe?

GWB

Butch: I've seen those nicely made parts before. How's the weather down there?

Butchloc: VERY nicely made custom Sakos!!

Years ago, at the Dallas Gun Show, I traded for a custom Sako 222. I was told it was made by an east Texas gunsmith named Jackson. Anyone notice his work?

Kevin

I picked up this L461 barreled in .221 FB about a year ago from the son of the man who had it built, which was in the late 70's or early 80's. The son didn't know the name of the smith, but recalled that he was from either Bryan/College Station Texas. Wherever or whoever he was, I'm grateful because this little jewel is a shooter.

What a bunch of nice rifles!
Butch

KEVIN GULLETTE.....DOUG JACKSON WAS A GREAT GUY HIS SHOP WAS IN TURNER TOWN, JUST OUTSIDE OF TYLER.

easttexas,

Thanks for the info!

Kevin

One more Sako in 222.

I've mentioned elsewhere, there may be some old farts that can harken back to days before the internet and gunbroker, guns america etc., you either had to go to a gun show, shotgun news, a pawn shop or your local gunshop to find weapons. Early on when I started collecting rifles, I discovered Sako's. For some reason I found I had an affinity for rifles with heavy barrels. Also, early on I got the bug for rifles chambered in 222 Remington. Well I looked everywhere I could think of at this time. I put adds in Shotgun News, Gunlist(?),looking for a heavy barreled Sako Vixen. The fact that I'd never even held one did not deter me. This went on about four years. So you can imagine my surprise when I walked into my favorite gun shop and there sitting on the used gun rack was this pristine Sako Vixen, heavy barrel rifle in 222 Rem. IIRC that was around 1991 or 1992. This is one my wife or kids will have to sell after I meet my demise. Finding it's cousin, the Riihimaki I pictured last month at the same gunshop 20 years later was icing on the cake.

Best

GWB

Geedubya: Very nice rifle, you have there. I'll bet it has taken it's share of PD's.

I think we should take exception to Stonecreek's off topic post......in that he is 0.001 caliber short!!

I'm pretty sure he could scrape together a qualifying Sako in 222.

Although not a custom Sako, below is one of my H&R Sako 222's.

Kevin

quote:

Originally posted by SmokinJ:
Nice rifle. On some of those early SAKO 222 rifles, weren't some of the barrels made by Marlin? My cousin has one and it's stamped Marlin on the barrel. What's the deal there?

On some of the early rifles, Marlin, Colt and HArrington and Richardson imported the actions and had them barreled and stocked here... marketed under the US company banner of course.

I have a neat old 222 marketed by Ithaca that comes with a Bofors barrel made in Finland, but not on a Sako action. The action is marked LS55. FS

Guys, if you need them, I put 30 boxes of 222 Rem and 222 Rem Mag cases in the Classifieds ...new-old stock.

How I love those little Sakos..

My all time favorite rifle is my 6x45 African walk about rifle on a L-461 with a mod 70 Win safety built out of a piece of 30 caliber bull barrel..19 inch barrel, douglas barrel, custom stock, shadow line English pancake cheek piece, blood red full fiddle back stock. Has a bench rest chamber and shoots in the .200 class with about any varmint load, and one inch with the 75 gr. GS Customs or the old BarnesX 75 gr. bullets..shot a lot of deer, antelope and have culled Kudu, Springbok, with it. shot a ton of coyotes and Rock chucks with it..I never put the barrel band sights and swivels on it because it shot so well that I was scared to put any heat or weight on the barrel..

I cannot post pictures but could send them to your email if interested.

I love the clip model 222 Sakos. I have owned more than a few over the years but they kept doubling my money and now I don't have one, dammit!

Ray,

That sounds like a most beautiful rifle!!

For posting pictures, you might like to try: tinypic dot com

If I can manage to post pics using it......ANYBODY can.

Friend Of The 17
Kevin

quote:

Originally posted by Fasteel:
I have a neat old 222 marketed by Ithaca that comes with a Bofors barrel made in Finland, but not on a Sako action. The action is marked LS55. FS

I believe that was their Tikka-actioned model. I often thought of buying one, but never got around to it. IIRC, both Tikka and SAKO were government partially-owned or dedicated manufacturies, located basically in separate factories in two different parts of the country, both of which at one time were used to convert Russian Moisin-Nagants ti Finland's military purposes. I believe (I may have this part wrong, but it is what I recall) that about 15 or 20 years ago they were both combined under one roof location-wise, but of course both continued with their own individually developed rifles. (Tikka is now a brand name made by Sako, but owned by Beretta.)

Don't recall for the moment how Valmet fits in there, but apparently the Tikka O/U double-rifle and the Valmet 412 are pretty much the same thing.

I've never really understood in full the Finnish military unit distinctions, but I believe Sako started as a dedicated supplier of rifles and rifle conversions for their equivalent of our national guard units. I don't recall which arm of the military Tikka supplied.

I could look it up, but figure I won't have to. Now that I've opened Pandora's Box regarding that subject, someone will refer us to the URL for the very detailed website which lays that all out for us. Then you guys can go see and interpret for yourselves. I've visited and even printed that site all out, but right now it is still buried in my unpacked stuff.

This is not the site I was speaking of above, but it will give you the basic history of Tikkakoski (Finnish for Woodpecker Rapids) which as a company predates SAKO by at least 30 years.

findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is.../ai_95680073/

If the link doesn't function for you, you can find the article by googling History of Tikka Rifles.

geedubya, "Had one just like her son in 1973" "til the man down at the bank stoled her from me" (George Jones'song about the Corvette with the year changed from 1963 to 1973). I got it in the box and broke the barrel in andit shot spendidly!! Every now and then when flipping through the Reloading Log Books, i see 'SAKO" at the top of the page and it's that 222 Varminter!!
There is a time in everyman's life that he has to give up something for another interest in his life and that was one of them. And tonight as I type this I am totalling up just what may be the take if I empty out the safes for the future of GHD and the missus!! Damn Mr. Obama and his Hope and Change or whatever he called it!! Damn Mr. SR. Bush for not going a few miles further in 1993 or whatever year it was. Damn the CONGRESS and THE SENATE for not having the balls to do what was right for the country for a lot of years............thought about putting in "79"(1932 for those of you in Rio Linda) which would take us back to 1932. Thought about putting in "47" which is where I really think the impetous lies. But what has happened since 2008 is RIDICOULOUS!!!! And MSNBC is predicting another 4 years of this "no leadership"!!
Sako is a beautiful thing!! There is no having to "true an action" with a Sako!! The machining was done right the first time if you decide you want to re-barrel! TheTikkas being marketed at AFFORDABLE prices for qualitymust have been produced by the samemachinists from years past.............either that or they have hellaciously good CNC machines with GREAT MACHINISTS watching over them (a CNC machine still needs a GREAT MACHINIsT to check it's work!!)
SAKO..............for a long time known for quality! GHD