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    Sako Hi Power

    The MS 6,5x54 carbine was at one stage (beg to mid last century)extremely popular among big game (elephant ) hunters in Africa. Some had it as their main rifle others as alternative to a double…..the MS carbine was light; extremely accurate and the long 160 grain FMJ bullet reached the brain...
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    Sako Hi Power

    The MS 1903 carbine uses a 160 grain bullet with moderate speed (680-700m/sec). Excellent for ”normal” hunting up to 150 or max 200m……… the methods in Egypt was to shoot the dorcas gazelles either with shotguns from pickups or use mainly 308/30-06/270 hunting rifles with light bullets for long...
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    Sako Hi Power

    model 1903; date of man est 1923-25 ; original owner was the brother of the Harrod’s owner… Hardly used at all since the caliber not suitable for shooting gazelles in the Egyptian desert for which it was intended.
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    Sako Hi Power

    No, I am in Finland……lived in Egypt for 30+ years and worked with Sako from 1985-89….. Folke Dahlberg I probably read abt in some Swedish hunting magazines. The guy whom I referred to died 2012. Up till then he was considered the best in Sweden.
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    Sako Hi Power

    The Pecar scope incl detachable mount from wellknown gunsmith Olsson in Klippan (Sweden)
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    Sako Hi Power

    You are right it’s Schmidt&Bender 1-4 ; cal of gun 8x57js; (of some strange reason with micro rifling) The M-S rifle is 6,5x54 with a Pecar (2 3/4) scope
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    Sako Hi Power

    A ”cleaned up” Sako Hi Pwr and a genuine Mannlicher 😉
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    Sako Ammunition .303BR

    L-46, These I guess were all the military versions and sporterized such. In the 80´s when I toured a lot of gunshops in Australia I only found this "Lee-Speed" sporter, which the shop owner gave me almost free referring to the worn out rifling. Eventually the rifling was confirmed to be the...
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    Sako Ammunition .303BR

    You are right. In the film he is using a Lee-Metford sporter. The .303 Lee-Metford/Enfield sporters (or Lee-Speed´s) were quite popular with British officers/hunters in Africa and India at the beginning of the previous century. Once in Addis, Ethiopia I found a history book with photos of the...
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    Sako Ammunition .303BR

    Yes, Stonecreek. It's a Lee-Metford sporter. - I was lucky to find the old Sako ammo for it (180gr bullet; from the 70's ?) with which this rifle shoots superbly (I found the rifle in Brisbane, Australia in 1986. I have been trying to put together its history before that, but it has proved to...
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    Sako Ammunition .303BR

    Hi Alpine Hunter, I am not collecting ammunition but after seeing your collection and not recognizing the .303 I thought this picture will give you energy to continue......:smile: .....F.y.i it was not easy to find the ammo and the Sako guy who found them for me asked me to wear protective...
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    Sako Ammunition Moose medicine (9,3x53R)

    Moose Medicine.... Right you are. - That rifle was originally one of those "Russian Winchesters" 7,62x54R of which eventually after the Finnish Civil War and Russian Revolution there was a great surplus in Finland. Many of them were converted (by Sako and others) to moose calibers in 8 or 9mm...
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    Sako Ammunition Moose medicine (9,3x53R)

    Hi guys, This is the first moose rifle I ever had and in 1974 did my "moose test" with. With the Sako ammo it's deadly on any game in Finland.:shocked2: Cheers and enjoy the hunting; SS
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    Finnwolf VL63 finnwolf info

    Mims Reed got very frustrated with the poor response he got from Sako in the mid/end 80's when the GM's of Sako were too busy saving their own asses during that volatile period when Nokia and Valmet where deciding the future of the company. Eventually if I remember correct, he got involved with...
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    Not Sure Exactly What I Have

    Hi Rustyfords, Very nice rifle! I have one in 8mm Mauser which was lying around in the Sako factory in the 80´s (Bofors barrel and microrifling). Somebody in the US at that time wrote an article in Guns and Ammo stating something like "those were the best rifles Sako ever built...." and I...
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    Sako 8,2x53R

    Hi guys, There are still a lot of what the Finns call "Ryssän Vinsu" (Russian Winchesters 1895) in the country (in addition to the Mosin Nagant rifles). Many of them have been rechambered to 8,2x53R and 9,3x53R for moose and baer. I think the 8,2 was one of the mostly used calibers for moose...
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    "Squiggly" wood Sakos

    Stonecreek: I checked with the previous owner who said that the barrel is from a "Hunter" model and the stock was selected out of several custom stocks stored in the Sako factory. It looks a bit like the "Classic" stock.The barrel is floated and a set trigger (Canjar) was installed at the...
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    "Squiggly" wood Sakos

    Thank you Stonecreek! It looks like a Classic, but it's not; cal 7mmRM. - The Zebra was shot in Zambia and is by now so much walked on that you can't see what race he is I don't think it's a Hartmann...... It was shot with a Classic 30-06. SS
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    "Squiggly" wood Sakos

    Here's another "squiggly" one, also on a "flat" zebra. SS
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