Laddie1012
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Hi guys,
I picked up a .308 Win target rifle with the Sako L579 single shot action.
I am unsure if the action has a magazine cut out, I am saving that surprise for later...
30" barrel is aftermarket with 1:12 twist K. Hill gunsmith.
The stock is unknown manufacture but appears to be based on an aluminum extrusion RHS. It is designed for bipod mounting and the butt stock is a bag rider.
The trigger is (as yet) unknown but is one of the sweetest I have used.
It has been set up for both aperture optics (Gehmann D75 iris rear, Parker Hale front) and is fitted with a 20 MOA rail screwed on top of a one piece machined steel flat rail which seems to be countersink drilled for mounts. Awful...
I have been using a .308 24" Savage Model 10 1:10 twist but the short barrel gave slow muzzle velocity particularly punishing beyond 600 yds. Load is usually 155gn x 46gn AR2208 but I tried various projectile weights for higher MV. Sierra 125gn flat base were great at 300 yards but dropped below subsonic at 900 yards. We live and learn... I bought the Sako for the 30" barrel, not the receiver.
I mounted a Sightron Sii 10-50 x 60 on the "Sako" and took it to the range on the weekend and shot 800 yards.
The rifle holds 1/4 - 1/2 MOA on windage (10 & 11 shot strings) but I was having trouble with elevation +/- 2MOA.
The scope mount rail is sliding on the Sako dovetails, it moved rearward about 3/4".
The rail thrust screws are tiny 10-22 mushroom head cup screws (1/8" Allen key)
The front screw failed and the head broke off...
I will replace the thrust screws with 10-22 machine screws grade 12.9.. on order.
It's unlikely that I will ever shoot beyond 900 yards so maybe I can get rid of the Picatinny 20 MOA rail?
It doesn't make much sense to me to be set up minus 15 MOA on the scope at 100 yards with the rail but only need 20 MOA adjustment on elevation to get 900 yds.
Thoughts? Keep them cheap, please.
I picked up a .308 Win target rifle with the Sako L579 single shot action.
I am unsure if the action has a magazine cut out, I am saving that surprise for later...
30" barrel is aftermarket with 1:12 twist K. Hill gunsmith.
The stock is unknown manufacture but appears to be based on an aluminum extrusion RHS. It is designed for bipod mounting and the butt stock is a bag rider.
The trigger is (as yet) unknown but is one of the sweetest I have used.
It has been set up for both aperture optics (Gehmann D75 iris rear, Parker Hale front) and is fitted with a 20 MOA rail screwed on top of a one piece machined steel flat rail which seems to be countersink drilled for mounts. Awful...
I have been using a .308 24" Savage Model 10 1:10 twist but the short barrel gave slow muzzle velocity particularly punishing beyond 600 yds. Load is usually 155gn x 46gn AR2208 but I tried various projectile weights for higher MV. Sierra 125gn flat base were great at 300 yards but dropped below subsonic at 900 yards. We live and learn... I bought the Sako for the 30" barrel, not the receiver.
I mounted a Sightron Sii 10-50 x 60 on the "Sako" and took it to the range on the weekend and shot 800 yards.
The rifle holds 1/4 - 1/2 MOA on windage (10 & 11 shot strings) but I was having trouble with elevation +/- 2MOA.
The scope mount rail is sliding on the Sako dovetails, it moved rearward about 3/4".
The rail thrust screws are tiny 10-22 mushroom head cup screws (1/8" Allen key)
The front screw failed and the head broke off...
I will replace the thrust screws with 10-22 machine screws grade 12.9.. on order.
It's unlikely that I will ever shoot beyond 900 yards so maybe I can get rid of the Picatinny 20 MOA rail?
It doesn't make much sense to me to be set up minus 15 MOA on the scope at 100 yards with the rail but only need 20 MOA adjustment on elevation to get 900 yds.
Thoughts? Keep them cheap, please.