Picked up a 5-digit SN Sako Riihimaki .222 Sporter, apparently unfired. It has one detachable mag with it, but I would like to have at least one spare...

Any suggestions as to good sources to try? Any of you Sako Collector's Assoc guys out there know where best to look?

I found two NIB mags for my L-42 7x33 at the Sako factory in the early 80's. Has anyone any knowedge of whether they still have/sell that sort of stuff now under the new ownership?

AC

AC--

"Spare" Rhimakii magazines are about as scarce as bat tracks.

Once in a while I find one. I usually have to pay $100US for a 222, $150 for a 222 Mag and sky's the limit for Hornet, Bee, and 243s.

Gee, Jack, not the answer I was looking for...

Especially as I just gave a friend in Portland a NIB .218 Bee mag! Guess I should have kept it for trading stock....

Starting to sound as if the emergency repair (if ever lose my mag)is to send it to Ontario and have a single-stacker integral mag built for it. Would be not much more expensive, and permanent. That's what I did when I got a .219 Zipper from England which was built on a P-14. Ellwood Epps made a great single stack internal mag for it. Worked slicker than greased owl poop.

A ,222 mag just sold on e-Bay, BTW, for $62.60. I had bid $61.60, but had no idea how high to go.

AC

Try Jim Lutes in Whitewater Kansas. You'll have to call information. He is in the phone book. I don't even have the area code. Sorry!

Jordan

Someone has been selling these magazines, in both 3-shot and 6-shot, regularly on both eBay and Auction Arms. I don't know if they are originals or reproductions, but the method of marketing looks like someone who came across a fair supply of them and is releasing them to the market a few at a time to keep from dropping the price. Check out each website by simply typing "sako" into the search block. Another site where you might find them is www.gunbroker.com

Alberta Canuck: I was just out on the west coast and did the Gunshow at Portland. I always keep an eye out for the clips you are looking for. I have both a Sako 222 Remington and a 222 Remington Magnum. The last clip I found I could afford for the 222 Remington Magnum was $70.00 and that was 10 years ago. I better check out E-Bay more often (aren't they the anti-Gun people?).
Anyway at the Portland Gunshow is an older man named "Horace" everyone knows him and he only sells clips. He has one table full of clips and specializes in original older clips for Rifles and pistols. I have bought many clips from him and he is not cheap but has a very good selection of older stuff. If you are near Portland and do not have any luck on E-Bay give the Gunshow there a try. He had some Sako clips there on March 29th.
Good luck and keep an eye on those Sako clips at all times!
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VarmintGuy

This sounds like the same guy I bought a clip from at the Spokane show about 10yrs ago. I also have an L46 Sako in 222. I paid $60 for my extra clip. The Spokane show has been very good to me, 3yrs. ago I picked up a single shot L46 in 222 at a graet price and rebarreled it to 17Rem. Pete

Pete In Idaho: He is a bearded older fellow and talks with a deep raspy whiskey voice. He is very sharp though and the perfect example of an old codger! Yeah he does all the shows in the NW!
I am drooling over your single shot L-46! I have always wanted one of them! Does the trigger on yours have the military style movement or takeup before the final resistance of the trigger pull? How does it shoot? How did it shoot as a 222? Keep an eye out for clips and another single shot Sako action!
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VarmintGuy

Varmint Guy,
Yes, I like it to. They were only sold as barreled actions and when I bought this one it came with an MPI glass stock(straight comb) that took alot of work.
As a 222 the best I could get out of it was .75ins./5 shots. Since I have a L46 repeater that shoots under .5ins. I decided to rebarrel it.
By the way the barrel (factory stamping on it) is 25ins. and not 23ins. as most L46s were. I used a Douglas SS #4 in 17Rem. At first with Rem. and Hornady 25gr. bullets it shot around 1in. After about 100rds. I tried 20gr. VMax and IMR4320, that did the trick. Last Sunday after church I took it and went over to my bench about 100yds. from my house. Anyway I was checking the zero for upcomming groundsquirrels. 4-5shot groups were as small as .350 to .600. 25gr. Bergers shoot about as good. When I first shot the rifle as a 222 I had an old 10X Lyman PermaCenter (not a bad scope) on it. Since then I have replaced it with a KT15X Weaver, I can't say enough good about that scope. Clear, good adjustments, and the price was right. Blount(CCI&Speer) gave it to me to try and then told me to keep it. Free. I had done cabinet work in their offices for them and I guess they were happy? Pete

I for got , trigger is the same as my other L46-
like a M70Win.

Thanks to everyone for the "clips tips". I usually go to the April & September shows at the Expo in Portland, so will try to find the fellow mentioned.

As for loads, in my experience 20-20.5 grains of IMR 4198 with any good premium 50-53 gr. bullet will shoot very well. My Marlin/Sako HB .222 had no trouble at all holding such loads in .5" or less. I can only shake my head when I wonder why I ever sold it. But, I guess you can't keep them all if you want to try out all the neat stuff you come across in a lifetime...

AC

Pete In Idaho: By coincidence I came up with a Weaver straight 15X scope at the Puyallup Show two weeks ago (maybe 3 now) anyway I have not put it on a Rifle as yet but took it to the range and have had it out in the yard several times focusing and looking and observing with it. I love the Duplex reticle and the space between the heavy parts of the Duplex and the center of the crosshairs! This spacing will be handy for ranging and windage estimation as the space is small enough to aid in ranging and windage estimation! I am sure I will like this scope! The friend of mine that had it for sale was asking $140.00 and I got it for $100.00 and was happy to pay that! He said someone had told him the model I have is now discontinued by Weaver. I am heading to the safe now to check the model number. I am back and the box says it is a KT-15 with the 1/4 minute clicks! I only have one other Weaver scope online these days and I have been very happy with it also. It is a variable 4 to 16 power. V16 I think its called. Its on a 243 Varminter I have and its performed well over the last 3 years I have been using it. I bought this Weaver KT-15 on the hopes I would put it on a Ruger 77/17V that I had hoped to buy and have in service by Ground Squirrel season this spring. I bet it (the KT-15) would perform well with that little 17 HMR cartridge!
What a great way to come by a scope for you! bartering your work! Good for you and thanks for the product review of the KT-15. More later.
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VarmintGuy

VarmintGuy,
I also have a V16 & a V24 like them both.
I didn't barter for the KT15, I was paid for my work then they gave me the scope. I know some of CCI and Speer people pretty well and over the years have been given bullets(2000 50grTNTs, over 600-70gr.TNTs) to try before they came out on the market.
Anyway, that KT15 is a whole lot of scope for the money and very much overlooked. Pete