Last november I was in a pawn shop in Augusta and found a Sako A1 Repeater with a McMillian Sako Hunter stock & a $100.00 scope. I bought it for about the price of the action. I couldn't find any brass but Jim Willians sold me 100 Sako 220 Russian brass that he had oppened to 6mm. I formed the cases using 65 gr Amaxes & 24 gr of Bunchmark, most groups around 1".

After I got 50 brasses formed I loaded 65 gr Amaxes & 70 gr Sierra HPTS with 27 gr of Benchmark. The worse group was .75" and the best around .5". This a really fun gun to shoot, I am going to carry it to the farm next week & lower the turtle population.

Very nice find, Tom! A 6PPC on turtles??......you must have some trophy sized ones!!

Years ago I traded for the same factory rifle. I decided to rebarrel it to 17PPC, for a coyote rifle. Turned out pretty well.

If you can find a set of the older Redfield bases, they would position the front ring a bit further forward.

Kevin

I had one and it was so/so on accuracy, certainly what you would expect fron a Sako 6PPC. Jim Kobe rebarreled it to a 22 ppc and it is about a 1/2-5/8 inch gun now.

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Originally posted by Kevin Gullette:
Very nice find, Tom! A 6PPC on turtles??......you must have some trophy sized ones!!

Years ago I traded for the same factory rifle. I decided to rebarrel it to 17PPC, for a coyote rifle. Turned out pretty well.

If you can find a set of the older Redfield bases, they would position the front ring a bit further forward.

Kevin

Why not just reverse the front base?

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Jim Kobe
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Posted 01 May 2011 20:45

Redfield bases are tapered inside (where they contact the the bolt rings)so they are not reversable.