I don't recall ever seeing an L469 full stock previously. Thanks for sharing!
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Sako Rifles Afield (as intended)
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icebear
Sako-addicted
Is that L469 Kokotukki a carbine or a full-length rifle? Either way it is one rare Sako! I have an L469 carbine but I have never seen an L469 Kokotukki with a 600mm barrel. I wasn't even sure such a thing existed.
How about posting some more photos of the rifle? Mine is the only L469 Kokotukki I have ever seen, and i'm sure the other forum members would love to see photos of yours.
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icebear
Sako-addicted
You mean I've never posted this carbine before? Had it for 25 years and it's the only one I've ever seen. But HelSako's rifle appears to have a full-length 600mm barrel.
I should have said "L469 Mannlicher full length barrel". L46 .222 Mannlicher full lengths are a dime a dozen (if you have $1,500 to $2,000 to buy one
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icebear
Sako-addicted
Something I just realized about HelSako's rifle - the stock appears to have a straight comb and it has a stamped trigger guard - both characteristics of the earlier L46 stocks. By the time the L469 came along, Sako had changed to Monte Carlo stocks with milled trigger guards, as in the photo of my carbine. I am wondering it that rifle, if it is full-length, might have been restocked. I've thought of doing a stock swap myself, just to have an L469 full-stock, full-length rifle.
bloorooster
The Old Hippie
Kokotukki?
icebear
Sako-addicted
Finnish for full-stock.
deersako
Sako-addicted
The ‘whole log’ Bloo
deersako
Sako-addicted
Good observations, and no doubt we have discussed these timelines before.
Were only the .222 magnum’s stamped L469 ?
deersako
Sako-addicted
Very nice rifle HelSako
Cool! A second run rifle from 1964-65 with the "old" style stock and trigger guard -- and a serial number in the 80,000's. As we have observed, Sako never let a good part go to waste. It would be fascinating to know why the building of the second run of L46/469's so long after the superseding L461 was in production. But I'm afraid that anyone who could tell us the "why" of it has long since gone on to the big rifle factory in the sky.
I'm sure you're very proud of that rifle, HelSako, as you well should be!
I'm sure you're very proud of that rifle, HelSako, as you well should be!
icebear
Sako-addicted
L469 was the factory designation for the L46 action modified for .222 Magnum. The guns were variously stamped L469, L46, or without the model number at all. Within the Sako factory they were all L469. I do not know if the very last L46 rifles in .222 used the stretch action or were built at the original length.
deersako
Sako-addicted
That’s right, and there’s the odd few around with the opened up action still stamped L46.
Is there any physical difference, other than the L469 stamping in the other ‘long magazine’ chamberings ? Block in magazine acknowledged.
I suspect that in later production the L469 stamping was reserved for the .222mag only.
Anybody got an L469 stamped rifle other than a .222mag. ?
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icebear
Sako-addicted
Correct.
Highly unlikely. Very few rifles actually were stamped L469. I have two L469's in .222 Magnum; one is stamped L46 and the other isn't stamped with a model number. As far as I know there were no L469's made in calibers other than .222 Magnum, but it is conceivable that one or more factory prototypes were built in .223 during the mid-60's second run. The "stretch" action was created mainly by moving the bolt stop back.
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Shiras in Wyoming? A really nice one.
gowyo
Sako Junkie
Thanks Stone,
Yep.
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Paul7
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And in Colorado, with sightings in New Mexico too.
There was a bull tramping around near the little village of Stonewall, Colorado in the summer of 2022. That's only 10 miles or so from the NM line, so sightings in NM are certainly possible.
Back when the big Yellowstone fires took place in the late 80's a wayward bull found his way to the Texas Panhandle.
