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You can still order the Tikka M-55 magazines threw any stoeger dealer, they run around $150-175 Canadian dollars! Sold 3 or 4 at the gunshop I work part time at her in Canada!
I just bought one of the 308 detachable box mag rifles marked as an AI series, I believe these were an Canadian option, alot of stuff was sent to test the market he in the north, then just stopped as it did not do well. I know the gun I bought was purchased new in 1986-87 for my friends daughter. barrel is around 22" real weird system to detach the magazine! Another friend has been a Sako dealer since the late 1970's and he told me a fellow in Southern part of Ontario Canada, made a clip conversion at night at his day job.My gunsmith friend use to sell and install these conversions in the mid 1980's, cheers Dale Z in Canada!
Hey Mike,
My 1987 Shooter's Bible, lists the L579 (AII) Hunter in .243, 7mm-08 and .308, with detachable magazine were available as a special order only. I have never seen one. I have two, new in the plastic bag, aftermarket magazines that I have no idea what they will fit. The printed adhesive tag on the bag reads, "NUMBER 1589F, Make - Sako/Tikka, 22/250/243/308, 3 RD, Single Stack". Bar code on the bottom. Looking at the exploded view provided by Woodman, my magazines look very similar to the one depicted.
Will
Hello Sako Friends,
Can any one tell me if they have an exploded-view or brochure of the L579 "Forester" in .243 Win or .308 Win calibre rifle with the detachable-box magazine? These L579 rifles were offered with a detachable box magazine during the 1970's & 1980's.
I wrote to Sako Finland who informed me that they had the detachable box magazine parts in their store, but I would have to order through my importer GMK. When I telephoned GMK they said that Sako did not have any of the above parts in store. So I hit a brick wall once again!
If any one out there has one of these L579's with the detachable box magazines, can you please post some photographs. In my 1970's Sako brochure, the d.b m. were only offered in .243 Win & ,308 Win calibres. My brochure has not got a photograph of rifles with the d.b.m. Also did any gun smith in the U.S.A. ever offer this option?
Regards Blackjack AKA Mike {The Limey}
Hey Mike,
My 1987 Shooter's Bible, lists the L579 (AII) Hunter in .243, 7mm-08 and .308, with detachable magazine were available as a special order only. I have never seen one. I have two, new in the plastic bag, aftermarket magazines that I have no idea what they will fit. The printed adhesive tag on the bag reads, "NUMBER 1589F, Make - Sako/Tikka, 22/250/243/308, 3 RD, Single Stack". Bar code on the bottom. Looking at the exploded view provided by Woodman, my magazines look very similar to the one depicted.
Will
Hi cat9,Hello All,
Just picked up at an internet auction yesterday, for a $20 Canadian bid, a clip for an L579 243 or 308. I have both.
Pic attached, if I can figure out how.
It seems to have all the bits and pieces (when compared to the pic earlier in this string) but something may be missing.
This clip will not fit a Bofors era gun (my three Sakos are Bofors) without installing a new trigger arch, whatever that is.
I am unlikely to use this, but for twenty bucks worth having it as a Sako L579 artifact.
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