Does anyone have any knowledge of the 1960’s Kodiak bolt guns?

Yes, I remember them; they were imported by Colt from Sako and marketed under the Kodiak name. In the 1960s.
What is your specific question?

It appears to be a Mauser 98 action. If it is, I’m thinking about a 6.5-06

Then it is not that Kodiak, but I did find a Kodiak/Jefferson arms Model 158 rifle that appears to have an FN type action; no thumb cut. j
Post a picture of yours.

That has a home made look to it

North Haven CT. I've been through there 100's of times and never knew it even existed.


Kodiak Co. was in business for only a short time. They produced the first .22 WMR semi-auto rifle (Model 260), as well as a centerfire bolt action (Model 158 Deluxe), and a slide action shotgun (Model 458). While Kodiak long guns are rare and extremely well made, collectability to date has been minimal with most specimens selling at a slight premium over similar quality trade name counterparts of that era. Prior to 1963, Kodiak firearms were marketed under the trade name of Jefferson.
Previous manufacturer located in North Haven, CT circa 1963-66.

That thing does look like Bubba built it; it is not like the ones I have seen with new actions; no thumb cut and not all buffed out. But the barrel is marked....
And the bolt handle is definitely bubba grade.
If all you want is an action, I would keep looking.

They did use some War time surplus 98 actions to build sporters early on. But then turned to the commercial FN post war offerings as they became available and at good prices.
The one shown doesn't look at all like one of the early products of Kodiak. They were inexpensive sporters but they did a very nice job building the rifles back then.
They did flatten the rear bridge on the military actions and bend the bolt handle and alter for 'scope mounting as well as D&T.
The polishing was much nicer than shown.

The Commercial FN's came with all that already done plus no thumb cut. Lots of the mfg'rs of the period used them for a CF bolt rifle sporter. H&R, Colt, H/S, Marlin etc.
SAKO actions and bbl'd actions as well.
Bishop was often the source of the stocks.

I would suspect someone had a bbl from one of their sporters and built their own rifles from the looks of the build.
Some of the parts from these mfg'rs go missing as the places closed down.
The rest get sold to parts houses , mostly Numrich. Thy then get sold off to the gunsmithing public.