Sako, pre Vixen mauser action, .222 Rem, 3 shot clip with scope

one of my buddies is selling the above rifle, I have not seen it, but it might be promising. What do you guys think? I assume this is the L46 action. How much would you expect to pay if the rifle is in 90+% condition.

how old? is it like the vixen? the small Sako actions are sought after. it has to be .556" bolt diameter but would cost you $600 or more

I have one in .222 put a new barrel on mine last year. great shooter, i used it for turkey last year 40gr v max at about 1800f/s kills em dead.
i have seen prices from $600 up to $1400 depending on the condition. these rifles were made in the 1950's pre L's and Pre vixen..there refered to as the REMINIKI pardon the spellin
Dave

Within the last year I paid $800 for one from a fellow AR member here on this board. It was a very early one, almost pristine, and came with a ghost ring sight and extra clip. He and I are both happy (well, I know that I am and he got exactly what he was asking, so I've got oto assume he is, also). You can certainly find higher asking prices, but I'm not sure you'll find too many actual higher transaction prices.

Dawg.....Two years ago I dug one of these out of an old lady's closet. I could have stolen it from her, as she didn't have the slightest idea what is was worth. Instead I gave her what I thought was a fair price; 700 dollars.
I put 27 reloads through mine yesterday, before I got cold. (It was about 10 degrees here in Minnesota!) These are superb little rifles. Mine will shoot most any safe load accurately. I installed a low powered Leupold on mine for coyote hunting in thick cover........ Grant.

Didja know these (or at least mine) have 1-16" twist barrels? I haven't tried anything other than 50 grain spitzers in it -- which shoot superbly. I suspect that most conventional 55 grainers will also do okay, but long plastic tipped 55's or conventional 60's might be stretching it for the slow twist.

My guess is that Sako had been chambering .22 Hornet and .218 Bee and that when the .222 came along they simply used the same 1-16" barrels.

I paid $700 for one this year. If it has a peep sight on it, add about $200 to the value. I was figuring on shooting 40 to 53 grain with mine so I should be OK. One of the gun mags last month did an article on bullet accuracy and they shot an L-46 for and example of .222 loads and it shot in the .5s with 50 and 52 bergers.

probably only about $25.00, but if you send it to me I'll give you $50.00

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Originally posted by butchloc:
probably only about $25.00, but if you send it to me I'll give you $50.00

I'll raise you 50 and make it $100..

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Originally posted by Stonecreek:
Didja know these (or at least mine) have 1-16" twist barrels? I haven't tried anything other than 50 grain spitzers in it -- which shoot superbly. I suspect that most conventional 55 grainers will also do okay, but long plastic tipped 55's or conventional 60's might be stretching it for the slow twist.

My guess is that Sako had been chambering .22 Hornet and .218 Bee and that when the .222 came along they simply used the same 1-16" barrels.

My early Sako also had a 1-in-16" twist. Couldn't stabolize 55 grainers. I wish I had one of those neat little Sako's in .218 Bee!!

I just paid $400 for one (L461) that some idiot did a little "home gunsmithing" to. But good ones are out there from anywhere around $450 and up, depending on condition and and if you need one NOW! or can wait.

If you can look around, then you can get one for $500-550 with little trouble. If you can wait a month or so and look around, then a decent one for $450 is out there.

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I wish I had one of those neat little Sako's in .218 Bee!!

Ain't it the truth!

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If you can wait a month or so and look around, then a decent one for $450 is out there.

. . . and 2500 square foot suburban houses may be back below $100,000 also. But as of right now, a nice Rihiimaki will run you a lot more money than $450.

The L-46 will bring more than a Vixen "L-461" most of the time. I have been looking on gunbroker and there had been a butchered L-46 that the guy could not sell at $450, but it had a fiberglass stock on it and no sights and a piece was missing off of the safety. I had hoped to pay less for mine at auction, but you never know what will happen at an auction. The saving grace was some idiot in front of me that bought a 788 in fromt of me for $800.

You fellows ever see one with oak leave checkering on the stock? My wife has one, but I've not seen one anywhere else. It has 4X Nikel scope with post crosshair. Really cool looking. It came from a collection of Euro rifles that my wife's boss purchsed. He gave it to her and I got the only American gun that was with them. It was only a pre-war Mod 70. He's a great guy!!!

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You fellows ever see one with oak leave checkering on the stock?

Check the new Sako Collectors site at http://sakocollectors.lefora.com/forum/

I've seen some Sakos with carved stocks like the 50th Anniversary model, and they also made a Super Deluxe with carving in the late 1980s. I don't think I've ever seen a factory carved stock in an older L46, but that doesn't mean there isn't such a thing.

Can you post a photo?

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I wish I had one of those neat little Sako's in .218 Bee!!

Ain't it the truth!

I have a 1953 editiion of the Gun Digest, and it has one of these little gems listed for around $130!! I certainly wish SOME manufacture would offer rifles like this one!! I would even like to see a reproduction of the Winchester M-43 in .218 Bee or .22 Hornet.

I have a good friend who has just acquired a really clean M43 Winchester from an estate in .218 Bee. Like you, I believe that if the current owners of the Winchester patents (FN? Browning? Whoever?) would build a reproduction M43 (like the repro 52s, 42s, etc.) they would sell like hotcakes.

I don't know if Sako's current rimfire action, the P94, would accommodate small centerfires like their old P72-75-78 series, but wouldn't such a little jewel be nice?

Any way you cut it, there is a serious lack of "micro" centerfire actions like the Kimber 82, Sako 78, Win 43, etc. available these days.

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I have a 1953 editiion of the Gun Digest, and it has one of these little gems listed for around $130!!

I ran that through an inflation calculator and it comes out to about $1,000 in today's dollars. That little gun wasn't cheap!

Does it look like this?



I've got two in this older configuration and both shoot lights out.